Lisa

Mom of 4. Social Worker. Multitasker. Vegan for the Animals ❤️

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@ExamineBaseball DOE should be ashamed of themselves!

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@2Mombie I was just informed by our school principal that they are testing even less than the 10% before! @LiuNewYork @MarkTreyger718

[Cynthia Nixon @CynthiaNixon]

School drop-off every morning is like the Squid Game—every day fewer & fewer people & whoever is left gets herded into the cafeteria to play Russian roulette over lunch.

The many quarantining students & teachers today were joined by our principal himself who tested + ☹️

[Sarah Allen @Mssarahmssarah]

NY state covid hospitalizations:

11/13: 1869
11/20: 2249
11/27: 2696
12/4: 3198
12/11: 3603
12/18: 3909
12/27: 5526
12/28: 6173
12/29: 6767
12/30: 7373
12/31: 7919
1/1: 8451
1/2: 8773
1/3: 9563
1/4: 10,411
1/5: 10,867
1/6: 11,184

[Jenn Choi- #StopAsianHate @ChoiAdvocates]

A parent coordinator at Townsend Harris high school just made this. She is wonderful. Why can't @nycschools do this? You can print this out, distribute to families and they can hang it up on the wall at home. Easy. It's just less confusing. @Realdavidcbanks Maybe yes?

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@teachbk I’m so sorry. I’ve kept my kids home this week as well but can’t even imagine how you’re feeling right now.

[Tom Sheppard @tomcsheppard]

Wallowing in COVID? Adults traumatizing children? How insensitive is that to the 1,697,200 NYC residents who contracted COVID or the 35,514 that died from it. @NYCMayor We don’t need swagger right now. We need policies that keep our children, families, & communities safe.

[Jumaane Williams (@jumaane.bsky.social) @JumaaneWilliams]

Tomorrow as we approach the surge peak of #Covid_19 across NYS, many municipalities— incl'g NYC—will have schools coming back from holidays fully open with NO testing requirements & with only the availability to test a fraction of students.

This is compounded unnecessary risk.

[MORE-UFT @MOREcaucusUFT]

Hundreds of kids, most of whom are not or cannot be vaccinated, were hospitalized for COVID this week during the NYC schools break. What do you think will happen when @NYCSchools reopen on Monday, @NYCMayor?

[PRESS NYC: Responsive Equitable and Safe Schools @safeschoolsny]

Update: 139 just added for today. How many pediatric beds do we have, @NYCHealthCommr? Pull the breaks, @NYCMayor. This will only get worse when our children return to school in-person. Whatever @DrJayVarma and @NYCHealthCommr told you about Delta and before Delta isn't OMICRON!

[Tobias Hohl is now @fungalspore.bsky.social @tmhohl71]

I agree - schools should be the last place to go virtual. But we are marching into thousands of classroom superspreader events next week @NYCSchools -> with inevitable staffing problems, similar to hospitals. One week of remote learning is do-able and much safer for all NYers.

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@LuciaEspinal14 Signed!

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@DrSFJ @LiuNewYork @Fernandez4NY The time to pivot is now!

[Lisa @itslisapizzax]

@Mssarahmssarah I am also keeping my kids home for at least the first week. I have two younger ones at home who are not eligible for vaccine yet. The risk is just too much.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️Totally “mild”—US pediatric #COVID19 hospitalizations nearly 2x last year’s all-time high. Kids shouldn’t be hospitalized—kids shouldn’t be getting #LongCovid. Kids have their whole lives ahead of them. Let’s protect the kids. 🙏

HT @DrWilliamKu—https://t.co/m4NHGoY0Nk

[District Leader Anthony Beckford @AnthonyBNYC]

An immediate reopening is reckless. We cannot start this return to school as it has been done in a failing way before. We need a #remotelearning option. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

Our children are not test subjects and will not be used to maintain a lie of safety!

[PRESS NYC: Responsive Equitable and Safe Schools @safeschoolsny]

Had the system announced a pivot to remote, staff and families could have had an actual break instead of worrying and trying to be heard by @NYCMayor. If you value self-care, make the pivot know, spell out the plan and let everyone take a breath.