{"id":1436961,"date":"2023-11-04T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1436961"},"modified":"2023-11-04T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:35:00","slug":"newsom-rewrites-pandemic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/newsom-rewrites-pandemic-history\/1436961\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Rewrites Pandemic History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsom Rewrites Pandemic History<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Leighton Woodhouse and Alex Gutentag via Public Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This week California Governor Gavin Newsom blatantly lied about his record on Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not consumed by what we did wrong,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Newsom said<\/a>\u00a0to Fox Los Angeles\u2019 Elex Michaelson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m consumed a little bit more by what we did right\u2026 There\u2019s no large state that outperformed California, one of the top performing states, in terms of health, wealth, and education.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Newsom went on to say that California\u2019s per capita Covid mortality was \u201csubstantially lower than places like Texas and Florida,\u201d that the state\u2019s economy fared better than that of other states, and that we saw less learning loss than Florida. <\/strong>All these statements are misleading at best. Newsom\u2019s claims about California\u2019s economy have already\u00a0been debunked<\/a>, and in age-adjusted Covid mortality, as many have\u00a0pointed out<\/a>, California and Florida fared about the same. What\u2019s more, cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths have been\u00a0higher<\/a>\u00a0in California than Florida since early 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for why schools were closed for so long, Newsom said it was because he gave school districts \u201clocal control.\u201d Evidently, Newsom wants to claim both that he is not responsible for his own school policies, and that these policies were effective. Yet both of these claims are completely untrue, and Newsom\u2019s failure on schools is a scandal of colossal proportions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2020, Newsom\u2019s Department of Health created\u00a0color coded tiers<\/a>\u00a0that effectively prevented California schools from reopening. In 2021, statewide guidelines continued to shape restrictions. These guidelines were based on pseudoscience like a six foot rule that created\u00a0a major barrier<\/a>\u00a0to reopening and was not proven to prevent Covid transmission.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While allowing private and charter schools to open and sending his own kids to\u00a0in-person private school<\/a>, Newsom never challenged the California teacher\u2019s union to push for full public reopening. Only in March 2021, when the state was facing a lawsuit, and after basically every other state had reopened, did Newsom call for public schools to resume limited in-person classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To this day, Newsom insists that school closures and the state\u2019s catastrophic learning loss were no big deal. <\/strong>Florida, he told Michaelson, \u201chad more learning loss in every single category\u2026 These are facts.\u201d But are they really?<\/p>\n

Newsom appears to be relying on a single 2022 test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), to make this assertion, despite a mountain of evidence that contradicts it. Only a small sample of students in the country take the NAEP. In contrast, all students in grades 3 through 8 and 11 take California\u2019s official state test, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the 2022 NAEP, which only about 4,000 kids in the state took, made it appear that California\u2019s learning loss was not so bad, the dismally low SBAC scores from 2022 showed that school closures had likely\u00a0wiped out years of educational progress<\/a>. This disparity strongly suggests there may have been a significant sampling bias in the NAEP, which is probable given that California\u2019s chronic absence rate\u00a0tripled statewide<\/a>\u00a0in the 2021-2022 school year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) touted its supposed success on the NAEP, the district\u2019s test results were essentially manipulated. In 2019, high-performing charter schools did not participate in LAUSD\u2019s test, but in 2022\u00a0they did<\/a>. Additionally, demographic changes between 2019 and 2022 may have been a factor, since the district\u2019s enrollment fell by an alarming 10%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom and other California officials are cherry-picking the data and intentionally neglecting to analyze and address the complete picture of student learning loss. <\/strong>To avoid political repercussions, they are deliberately ignoring the majority of testing results as well as the\u00a0many<\/a>\u00a0studies<\/a>\u00a0which show that remote instruction had a severe impact on learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andrew Dean Ho, psychometrician and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, reviewed California\u2019s test results as an expert witness in an ongoing lawsuit against the state.<\/p>\n

Wrote Ho in\u00a0his testimony<\/a>, \u201cIn my review of transcripts from depositions of state officials, I find numerous responses that indicate to me a lack of awareness of or interest in data that could enable accurate estimates of academic learning loss.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state has abandoned its duty to assess all relevant data and may be concealing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cData currently exist in state repositories to answer questions about the magnitude of academic learning loss for jurisdictions and subgroups in the state of California, untapped,\u201d wrote Ho.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ho\u2019s revealing testimony is corroborated by the fact that the Department of Education\u00a0threatened to muzzle and retaliate<\/a>\u00a0against California researchers who planned to testify against the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Newsom increasingly seems to be pursuing presidential ambitions, his Covid mistakes should come under greater scrutiny, especially as he remains intent on never admitting to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Newsom\u2019s view, the only reason he\u2019s had any criticism at all is because hindsight is 20\/20.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should acknowledge at the time we didn\u2019t know what we didn\u2019t know,\u201d he told Michaelson. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re experts, we\u2019re geniuses in hindsight.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

But California\u2019s education failure is not just about 2020 and 2021 – it\u2019s about the state\u2019s refusal to examine the learning loss data to this day,<\/strong> and Newsom\u2019s clear choice to prioritize his own political ambitions over his accountability to the children and families of his state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Subscribers can read the full substack here…<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 11\/04\/2023 – 14:35<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/newsom-rewrites-pandemic-history<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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