Have you ever dreamed of belonging to the woke nomenklatura, of being free to harass and bully the deplorables to your heart’s content? It sounds like a wonderful life, and many of your contemporaries have chosen it. But before you join them, listen to this true tale. (Caveat: You may or may not be able to worm your way into the web site. If you can’t, the following summary furnishes all the pertinent facts.)
Facebook hosts a private group called “Law Mamas”. Its members are female lawyers with children, and it reportedly has 13,000 members, though it is now closed to new entrants. Krista joined in 2016, shortly before the birth of the first of her three children. The group was then accepting members, but, quite appropriately, Krista had to wait nine months before she was admitted.
Krista describes herself as a “liberal Democrat”, but she had a dark secret. One of her children went into anaphylactic shock some years ago after being vaccinated (not for Covid). That didn’t turn her into an anti-vaxxer but did lead her to weigh benefits versus risks. When the topic of Covid vaccines for very young children arose on Law Mamas, she offered her opinion:
I’m obviously in the minority here. But I’m not even remotely interested in my 2/4/5 year olds getting a covid vaccine. The relative/absolute risk is so low for this group I couldn’t justify it. I’m pretty crunchy generally, but especially with stuff like this. Totally respect everyone’s choice and Glad it’s our choice to make. It’s all so hard.
Note the defensive tone. Perhaps she had already gained some insight into what a Law Mama is really like.
The backlash came quickly. One of the group’s moderators replied: “This was unnecessary and triggering. You know you are in the vast minority in this group and it’s not a hard decision for most of us. … This is not the group to provide your opinion on this much more deny the statistics.
What “statistics” was Krista denying? According to 2020 World Health Organization data for the world as a whole, children under five years old accounted for about two million Covid-19 cases and fewer than 2,000 Covid deaths. Put another way, if young children contract the disease, their chance of death is on the order of one in a thousand. Other data indicate that their risk of hospitalization is likewise vanishingly low. But woke facts are whatever the wokerati assert. Statistical analysis is just another form of white supremacy.
Within a few minutes after she posted her heresy, Krista was expelled from Law Mamas. Another member then complained, “Hey, I don’t love that we all just kicked out this girl from our group for making the statement.” She was expelled, too.
After that, one presumes, the Law Mamas returned to denouncing the intolerant ways of Republicans and trembling at the descent of fascism on America.