The Revisionist History On COVID Policies Refuses To End
And those on the left will demonize anyone who even moderately admits the truth
Taylor Lorenz has a serious problem, and it manifests itself with her extreme derangement over COVID and COVID policies.
She's long demonstrated a disconnect with reality regarding COVID, evidenced by the fact that she has been one of the few remaining holdouts devoted to wearing masks, which again do not work, in 2025. Lorenz has mostly, and unsurprisingly, directed her ire at those on the political right for telling the truth about COVID, along with their expressing the complete lack of evidence to ever support Faucism. But in a surprising turn of events, her anger during the most recent example of pandemic derangement syndrome was directed at one of the members of her own political team: Pete Buttigieg.
What did Buttigieg do to make Lorenz so angry? Well, in a new interview with far left website The Bulwark, Buttigieg continued his revisionist history campaign in order to appear more moderate while gearing up for an obvious presidential run in 2028. When asked what he would change if he could go back to 2020, he said he'd have tried to "figure out" a way to get schools open.
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"For the love of God, figure out a way to get the schools open sooner. We got very knee-jerk about this and the costs were — not just politically — but in a profound way I think, for a generation, the costs were profound, and I think anybody who’s involved, who was, by the way obviously doing their best to deal with a crisis that killed a million Americans, but I think most people involved would like to be able to have found a way to safely get more schools open more quickly," he answered.
It's worth returning to that later, but while it was, on the surface at least, a moderately reasonable answer, Lorenz went ballistic about it.
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Lorenz on X posted a response to Buttigieg that was, to put it mildly, unhinged.
"Pete saying he would have ‘opened the schools sooner’ in 2020 aka killing MORE vulnerable ppl faster, sacrificing teachers and educators (and kids!) lives to force them back into unventilated buildings w no protections," she posted. "Disgusting how Dems have fully embraced far right eugenics."
Far right eugenics..?
It's hard to know where to start with a statement that unhinged.
As you may recall, schools for younger age groups never closed in Sweden. They remained open, operated safely, with no "protections," and Sweden outperformed the rest of Europe and the United States. By a wide margin.
Florida opened schools, thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis, normally, by late summer 2020, with no impact on their COVID metrics or outcomes. And the state not only outperformed lockdown states in age-adjusted excess mortality, but saw an influx of residents moving from other states to get their kids in school as quickly as possible.
Not to mention the biggest problem with Lorenz's outburst; as I have continued to explain and share unequivocal evidence throughout my posts on this platform, masks and so-called "protections" don't work anyway. And her ill-informed extremism is precisely the reason that the Democratic Party and their partners in the teachers unions kept schools closed as long as they did.
Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, they all abandoned science and evidence and set back an entire generation, all in service of a political ideology that put the self-important delusions of adults ahead of the needs of children. Lorenz is unaware and uninterested, but as the saying goes, facts don't care about your feelings.
Then there's calling Pete Buttigieg, Pete Buttigieg! a believer in "far right eugenics." Because he took the most milquetoast position, five years too late, that virtually every sane person agrees is correct. Except, of course, those suffering from reality-denial like Taylor Lorenz. It has demonstrated beautifully how far gone she and those in the progressive movement actually are.
Of course, Buttigieg also deserves plenty of criticism. Yes, he's right, getting schools open in 2020 was vitally important. But he couches it in terms of getting them open "safely," as if there were policies or measures required to ensure that schools could operate safely. When we already knew Sweden had safely opened schools without those policies. Democrats, Buttigieg included, ignored that because it contradicted what Anthony ‘The Science’ Fauci, Randi Weingarten, the CDC and the rest of their ideological allies were saying.
Now that it's politically safe to admit school closures were a mistake, he's only willing to go so far instead of telling the full, actual truth. And we know that's not at all how he felt in 2020, because Chasten Buttigieg was repeating the same type of extremist nonsense that Lorenz, Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party was saying at the time.
As John Hasson pointed out on X, Buttigieg said that Trump's push to open schools would get teachers killed. "To this President and to this Secretary of Education, school is just childcare," Buttigieg said. "it is a way to get the economy back on track, open up the doors so you have a place to put your kids so you can go back to work.
"School is not just childcare," he continued. "There are many other things that need to take place in order to have a proper educational environment."
He then riled up his COVID-panic-forever troops with some outstanding fearmongering, saying that his young educator friends were writing wills in 2020 "because they are terrified that they are going to get sick."
"There's already a flight risk of teachers fleeing the profession. I don't want to see teachers leaving the profession on gurneys."
That's the attitude "Mayor Pete," Taylor Lorenz and the Democrats had in 2020. That's what they believed. There was no push to "reopen safely," as they now gaslight. They simply believed, based on nothing, that schools would get people killed. They believed, ironically, that masks were necessary protective devices that everyone must wear, while also saying with their actions that masks still weren't enough to get kids and teachers back to class.
Just look at Randi Weingarten, who’s running the same playbook, telling the public that she wanted schools open when she purposefully influenced her partners in the Biden White House to keep them closed. Acting as if forcing children into masks was a justifiable demand.
They were wrong. In every conceivable way.
Buttigieg or Weingarten now admitting it shows how politically harmful it was and is for Democrats that they pushed to keep schools closed. And Lorenz's hysterically hyperbolic "eugenics" reaction shows how permanently broken a significant percentage of their party actually is. Not to mention further discrediting her former employers at The New York Times and Washington Post for platforming her in the first place. Embarrassing all around.
How is Taylor even still with us? Isn't she on like booster #10???
I honestly think that half of Lorenz’s love of the mask is that she thinks she looks better with one on. Seriously. I think she has been obviously avoiding her real age and masking allowed her to hide her face save the eyes.
So for her, not only does it feed into her clearly insane neurotic takes on COVID, but it also feeds into her self hatred and insecurity about her looks.
She is the caricature of the modern western (white girl) feminist - educated, in a position of influence, neurotic, moralizing, self aggrandizing idiot.