Two young people, a high school girl and a college man, have two very different COVID stories, but both reveal where we are right now in the pandemic.
“Abby Chenoweth was a healthy 16-year-old,” writes Emily Walker for MSN. “The Titusville teen took virtual school classes and wore a face mask when she left the house. Her mom said she didn’t have pre-existing conditions, and she didn’t go out often.”
The report goes on to focus on her horrific COVID case, and readers’ hearts go out to her. But that opening paragraph is bald-faced lie.
Or at least a “white lie.” You decide.
You see, Abby Chenoweth is obese. She is obviously so in the photos provided by her mother. And not merely a “little bit” overweight.
Our hearts break all the same, but her obesity is a “pre-existing condition.” We knew early on that COVID can be devastating for the overweight.
The article does not once mention her corpulence. Were it not for the photos, readers wouldn’t have a clue. They would read Abby’s mother’s mask apologia at the end as an earnest and honest plea.
Next to Ms. Chenoweth’s harrowing story, and the see-through propaganda made out of it, 22-year-old Logan Hollar’s story is comic. The title delivers the punch line: “Rutgers student says he’s being stopped from taking virtual classes because he’s not vaccinated,” Karen Price Mueller’s piece summarizes.
“I believe in science, I believe in vaccines,” cautions Mr. Hollar’s stepfather, “but I am highly confident that COVID-19 and variants do not travel through computer monitors by taking online classes.”
Do the professors and administrators at Rutgers know that?
COVID craziness seems more infectious than COVID itself.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Abby Chenoweth may be obese, but she is also young and the young generally have an easier time overcoming Covid.. If she had diabetes that might have a more negative impact.
Logan Hollar’s story is not just comic. It’s scary. It suggests that those in charge seek conformity above all else. No room for exceptions to certain rules. Maybe they’re afraid that if Logan is seen online without a mask, it will weaken their authority.