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I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

I've been thinking a lot lately about isolation,

how it's been webinized through COVID,

in education, and in our government.

I was thinking about this after a mother contacted me this week with a harrowing story about

her teenage daughter being coerced by her public school administrators into breaking

contact with her family over gender identity issues.

The school wouldn't discuss the issue with her in person and told her she was the

only person who had ever made such a complaint. I knew this wasn't true because I regularly hear

from parents in my district who has suffered a similar, if not that exact situation. They isolated and

gaslit this woman on purpose. Our government does this too.

They've used social media to compartmentalize discourse and even censor it altogether.

They used the pandemic to keep us in our homes and out of our churches and places of community connection.

Meanwhile, they left open businesses that encourage anti-social behavior, strip clubs, casinos,

marijuana dispensaries.

Working in tandem with social media giants, the government added shame to their isolation

strategy, encouraging Americans to completely cut ties with friends and family who hold different

political opinions or who were questioning the pandemic and vaccine measures and things like that.

NBC fired former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

for her sin of being a Republican representing Republican issues,

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