What Were We Thinking?

A new book reveals the bad science and corrupt leadership behind America’s disastrous pandemic school closures. - James B. Meigs
An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, by David Zweig 

In the early spring of 2020, freelance writer David Zweig was, like most suburban dads, willing to follow the advice of experts. “People were dying from a scary new disease, and my family and my neighbors were readily compliant with the governor’s orders to stay home and stay apart from each other,”...
Still, something didn’t feel right. Zweig watched his two elementary-school-age children “slowly wilting in the gray light of their school-issued Chromebooks...

The deeper Zweig dug, the more his sense of astonishment—and then of outrage—grew. 

• As early as March 2020, it was clear that Covid, unlike influenza, posed little threat to children. 
• Nor were schools major centers of virus transmission, studies showed...