Revenge of the Covid Moms – Common Sense
Maud Maron hates the whole you-gotta-show-your-vaccine-passport-to-get-into-a-restaurant thing, and she thinks masking indoors is atrocious, but this is bright blue New York City, so fine. It s just, when Kathy Hochul the governor gets on the screen, talking about how she wants to protect us and keep the masks in schools, she doesn t have a fucking mask on her face, and I m so sick of politicians who take the mask off their face to tell me to put the mask on my children like how dare you? Anyway, that s why she s running for Congress.
We re having tea around her kitchen island in her apartment in Soho. It s big. There s a ping pong table, a foosball table, a swing bolted into a wooden beam. A bright red, toddler-sized race car. A tattered copy of Romeo and Juliet. Speech-therapy exercises are tacked to the wall. Her husband, who s Argentinian, runs a private-equity shop. When you shut down my kids’ schools and impose devastating mental health effects on them I don t forgive anyone who did that, Maron says.
After a beat or two, she adds: This is the year that parents say, You re either with us or against us.