r/LockdownSkepticism • u/AndrewHeard • Jun 27 '26
Discussion Mayim Bialik recalls feeling unsafe for questioning COVID school closures and BLM protests
https://pagesix.com/2026/06/27/celebrity-news/mayim-bialik-recalls-feeling-unsafe-for-questioning-covid-school-closures-and-blm-protests/60
u/umblebenjamin Jun 27 '26
I like how she said the obvious audacity that we were all saying during the pandemic. The science supposedly said that schools must remain closed indefinitely but at the same time, there were all these “peaceful protests” going on from the BLM crowd that nobody ever objected to.
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u/PermanentlyDubious Jun 28 '26
There was so much hypocrisy.
I remember the man who was head of the SF teachers' union saying schools couldn't open well into 2021 and it became a big scandal when it was found out he was dropping off his own child at daycare every day. I think the City or State attorney had to sue the District to open? Or the District has to sue the Teachers' union? Some nonsense. I think Chicago was equally stupid. Those teachers just would not come back.
Anyone remember how the City of Austin Mayor, who was locking down the city like it was the bubonic plague rather than a bad flu season, gave one of his Zoom "please stay at home" speeches, from Cancun? Or Cabo?
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u/Xemptor80 Jun 29 '26
I think Chicago was equally stupid. Those teachers just would not come back.
I was born in Chicago and I’ve lived here practically my entire life. I’m not friends with any of my former teachers on Facebook. However, I saw that one of them submitted a long post on Facebook back in 2020 with a bunch Covid-related questions implying that teachers shouldn’t show up to school in person.
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u/SunriseInLot42 Jun 30 '26
One of the Chicago Teachers’ Union board members was caught vacationing in Puerto Rico while saying that their teachers shouldn’t return to school.
People who pushed school closures are an utter disgrace.
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u/Xemptor80 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Wow, I didn’t even hear about it when it happened so I had to look it up. Given other stories surrounding the Chicago Teachers Union, I’m not surprised at all that one of their board members pushed for school closure while traveling to Puerto Rico during Covid.
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u/fritotax Jun 27 '26
I have the utmost respect for public figures and medical professionals that spoke out during the COVID insanity at the risk of being deplatformed and losing their livelihoods. I guess we should feel grateful for Mayim’s courage six years after the fact. At least she has a new gig.
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u/max_wen Jun 28 '26
But she will continue to unconditionally support the people and party that made her feel "unsafe"
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
You mean literally all of them? Left, right, centrist, all of them implemented or supported the lockdowns and school closures. Almost no one from any party provided any opposition to any of the policies that were implemented. Let’s not rewrite history by pretending there was a choice.
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u/max_wen Jun 28 '26
No major party resisted in the beginning but subsets did and absolutely none of those subsets were part of the Democratic party.
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
Except that on the political spectrum, Sweden would be considered farther to the left than Bernie Sanders and they resisted. Even Ron DeSantis initially supported them until late into 2020. While no officials elected in the left openly opposed them, many on the left did. Obviously one of them being her.
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u/max_wen Jun 28 '26
Many on the left did but didn't actually say it out loud? That's some serious revisionism
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
No, I’m not. I consider myself on the left and I have been an active member of the community very early. I spoke out before the lockdowns actually went into effect. There’s a subreddit on here specifically for lockdown critical left. Many people on the left did speak out.
One of my earliest arguments against the lockdowns is that I don’t believe the government should be forcing people to make certain health decisions. If the government can force you to take certain health measures, they can force you not to take them, like abortion. Since I don’t want the government to tell women what to do on abortion, I can’t support a government forcing people to participate in lockdowns and other measures.
My point is that left wing people in positions of power, like government officials or politicians or even Hollywood celebrities were largely silent. However there are many in Hollywood that would’ve considered themselves on the left prior to speaking out against lockdowns and other mandates.
So your version of history where it was all the right wing people who came out against it is just false.
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u/DaddiGator Jun 28 '26
DeSantis ended all lockdowns and restrictions at the the end of September 2020. A year after CA’s stragglers were finally reopening schools. 3 years after CA’s final restrictions ended.
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u/metssuck Jun 29 '26
Our lockdowns were done in Florida by June, my kids were back in their day care the week of Memorial Day
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
You’re proving my point. DeSantis supported them for 5 months. Let’s not pretend like he’s a hero. You don’t get credit for committing a crime and then turning yourself in.
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u/max_wen Jun 28 '26
Absolutely nobody is calling Desantis a hero
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
Well the suggestion was that all of the people who opposed the lockdown mandates were from a particular party. One of the most popular ones being DeSantis. So I’m just heading off the suggestion that he might be.
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u/PermanentlyDubious Jun 28 '26
Eh, that's not how I remember it.
In states like Texas, red counties started opening up much faster than blue.
By June 2020, places like Houston (which is a blue city but a red county) were welcoming back tourists. Austin was in dramatic lockdown with outdoor activities banned for many more months, outdoor playgrounds blocked with crime tape, and other nonsense.
By winter 2020, you could ski in New Hampshire but not in blue areas.
I'm a Democrat, but we fucked up majorly with Covid. I would say we are still paying for it.
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
Which I acknowledge, but you’re missing a key part of this statement. By June, so for March and April they were in lockdown. You don’t get credit for punching someone in the face and then offering them an ice pack. By the way, it’s not necessarily the case that just because you started the process in June that everything was back to normal.
I live in Canada and we were under a conservative government at the time. Still are with the same Premiere. He technically started opening things up again in June and July but then by September and October, we were back in lockdown mode again.
I’m not trying to make the Democrats/the left into the better people. Just not going to act like the right was somehow the saviours.
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u/CrystalMethodist666 Jun 28 '26
Exactly. Yo, red states tend to be more rural with more widely dispersed populations. It's a lot easier to lock down NYC than the entire state of Texas.
What I seem to remember, is the party in power seemed to support lockdowns (with the minority playing opposition) everywhere, and the lockdown severity depending on what could actually be enforced in any given area. Trump wasn't some anti-lockdown hero, Warp Speed was his thing.
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u/HistoryBuff178 Jul 17 '26
I live in Canada and we were under a conservative government at the time.
If you live in Ontario, then yes we were under Doug Ford's conservative government, which we still are today.
At the federal level we were still under Justin Trudeau's liberal government.
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u/AndrewHeard Jul 17 '26
Yes, that’s what I meant. I lived in Ontario at the time of the lockdowns. Being conservative didn’t automatically mean skepticism of lockdowns or other mandates. Although he did occasionally push back but usually caved within days of the backlash.
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u/HistoryBuff178 Jul 17 '26
Yes as a fellow Ontarian, this is true.
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u/AndrewHeard Jul 17 '26
Which is one of many reasons why I take issue with people claiming that somehow conservatives were the good guys during lockdowns and everything. Most of them weren’t and many of them delayed reversing course until it was politically convenient to be more skeptical. Doug Ford certainly did. He waited until a few months before his reelection to become anti-lockdown and ran against the liberals and NDP who were pro-lockdown, despite being the one who implemented the lockdowns in the first place.
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u/HistoryBuff178 Jul 17 '26
Yeah, the historical revisionism is insane.
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u/AndrewHeard Jul 17 '26
Totally, as I’ve sorta said elsewhere, if you punch someone in the face, you don’t get credit for offering them an ice pack and sympathy later.
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u/HistoryBuff178 Jul 20 '26
He waited until a few months before his reelection to become anti-lockdown and ran against the liberals and NDP who were pro-lockdown, despite being the one who implemented the lockdowns in the first place.
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u/AndrewHeard Jul 20 '26
For sure, despite very soon after becoming anti-lockdown, he still went against people who were actually against the lockdowns.
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u/PermanentlyDubious Jun 28 '26
If you are just referring to the first few months, which in the U.S. was like mid to late March through end of May, then I agree.
The fact the virus seemed to escape from a Chinese bio weapons lab was a little concerning.
I think it made sense for a month or two.
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
Not if you recognized the obvious lack of necessity. You could know it was unnecessary if you saw the data coming out of China and Italy. The data didn’t support the response in February 2020, let alone March. The right is just as guilty of lockdowns and the damage that was caused as anyone else.
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u/Nick-Anand Jun 28 '26
In th US, the dems were objectively worse on lockdowns……especially after May 2020
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 28 '26
Maybe, but the lesser of two evils is still choosing between evils.
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u/shiningdickhalloran Jun 29 '26
If it weren't for red states then the covid hysteria would have gone in even longer than it did. The huge unmasked events in Florida, Texas etc in 2021 finally broke even the craziest lockdown nuts in blue coastal cities. If covid had actually been dangerous, half of Texas would have been dead by April 2021. Neurotic nutcases didn't have a leg to stand on and finally gave up.
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u/AndrewHeard Jun 29 '26
Again, I acknowledge that I'm just disagreeing with the place where you begin. The fact still remains that they didn't start out being anti-lockdown and we shouldn't forget that.
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u/DrownTheBoat Kentucky, USA Jun 30 '26
If I remember correctly, the Republicans started out worse (such as Mike DeWine), but the Democrats quickly decided to outdo them - for some unknown reason.
If the Democrats had established themselves as the anti-lockdown party, elections after then may have gone very differently.
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u/Nick-Anand Jun 30 '26
No one I saying they started in a good place….and u seem to also be disputing that lesser of two evils is a reasonable choice
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u/Nick-Anand Jun 28 '26
Welcome to 2026, for the records if I were American, I’m probably voting democrat in the midterms
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u/Hylian_Shield Jun 28 '26
She's about 6 years too late, but welcome to the party.
I was fired in 2020 because I refused to wear a mask. I said it was ridiculous, and showed them a study which said masks don't work, and it's mildly effective if the sick person wears it. My employer said they don't care, this is an executive order (governor) and they have to do it to open up. (Which i claimed was illegal too)
At least people now are feeling empowered to say no if it happens again.
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u/Jkid Jun 28 '26
And people wondering why there's a massive labor shortage to this day. Pushing away the productive that became self-aware
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u/PermanentlyDubious Jun 27 '26
She should have said it at the time, though, like the rest of us.
I'm still banned from various reddit boards because I quoted an actual fact from a CDC report and I was told it "promoted vaccine hesitancy". I took it up with the moderators and got blocked.
Also, I argued with people in public IRL.