IN “Gen Z’s Right Turn” (September-October, page 20), Harvard Republican Club president Leo Koerner ascribes his conversion to a conservative viewpoint to resentment over early attempts to contain COVID-19 through mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures, despite a lack of certainty over their effectiveness.
It is worth recalling the devastating toll that the disease took and the supposition, later validated, that transmission might be respiratory. A teenager’s frustration is an understandable source of resentment but hardly a productive basis for the political organization of society.
Stephen Poppel ’65, Ph.D. ’73
Ghent, N. Y.
RE: “Gen Z’s Right Turn,” the adults among us need to take a lesson. Is talking to one another so terrible?
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The Harvard alumni org holding the line on COVID orthodoxy years after the whole game fell apart is pure intellectual Titanic culture. Love how they snub those pesky “teenagers” when they jump ship but serenade them as the conscience of mankind when they sing along with the band.
the very public institutions intended for student learning has become focused instead on adult employment. I say that as an employee. Adult practices and attitudes have become embedded in organizational culture governed by strict regulations and union contracts that dictate most of what occurs inside schools today. Any impetus to change direction or structure is met with swift and stiff resistance.
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Dane county Madison taxpayer funded public health covid era lockdown mandates