Young people didn't need Covid shots that the CDC and pharmaceutical companies knew may hurt people. Many now call for their complete cessation. In spite of masks, arbitrary six-feet distancing, isolation, and shots, the virus spread anyway. 

I want that executive order. The Mom Executive Order. Trump issued Executive Orders on sex change operations and drugs; on immigration and deportations; on barring transgender people from the military; on so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; on disallowing men to play in women's sports. After devastation and losses young people endured in the Covid period, I want the Your Mom Was Right Executive Order.

My child and others thought me crazy for moving about freely during the Covid period. Believers and enforcers condemned rogue moms like me. One mom had to place her child's bags on the curb rather than approach the door when she drove him to visit a family member because the family member feared she was contaminated for not staying home, not wearing a mask, or not having the right thoughts about the pandemic. Because I advocated for schools remaining open, I was accused of not caring if teachers died. I have been a teacher most of my adult life.

Trump was in power for more than nine months after March 2020, when lockdowns descended. He was in charge when governments inflicted harms that the next administration continued. I had to go to work, as many did, and leave my child in the house alone, on Zoom school. Families may have fared better when parents Zoom-worked and drew good salaries while their children Zoom-schooled, and dinners were delivered. They watched movies on Netflix and church on YouTube. Income streams remained while everyone stayed cozy and at home. Stay home. Stay safe. 

But those families were rare. Factory workers, garbage collectors, utility workers, farmers, drivers, firefighters, health care workers, all those who worked to keep societies fed, heated, functioning with water and electricity all still had to go work. Where were their children when schools closed? What did those children do all day? I wanted to take my child to work with me, but my child was too scared to leave the house.

Your Mom Was Right, reads the executive order of my dreams. Stay home, Stay safe, read the government propaganda. But this didn't work for many who had to go to work or for those who needed to be among friends, in communities, to feel safe. Community is immunity, said women's health educator and advocate Dr. Christiane Northrup during the Covid period. She kept thinking independently, as she has for decades. Domestic violence, substance abuse, mental health crises, and child sexual abuse exploded during the Covid period. Crushing policies devastated children of the poor all over the world.

"Your mom was right," reads the executive order I'm waiting for. "Closing schools is a grave injustice," wrote Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and others in the Great Barrington Declaration, published in October 2020, and signed by doctors and scientists all over the world. Young people and most of society should continue normal life, the document read. The media, Democratic and Republican politicians, government bureaucrats, and most of society attacked and censored the authors, calling them "fringe epidemiologists" or worse.