Last Thursday, a group of 20 mothers in Boston met up outside a local high school. Their goal wasn’t to socialize, drink wine, or even share COVID-related tips. They were there for one reason and one reason only: to stand in a circle—socially distanced, of course—and scream.

Why are children allowed to be parents?

For two years, we’ve been spending each and every day navigating an ever-changing *government reaction to the* virus that’s threatening not only our well-being but our livelihoods.

They left out a few words; I fixed it.

COVID didn't do this to them. The media and politicians did. Stop listening to them and things will improve.

I feel bad for anyone who has to live nearby these shrieking codependent women. FFS, what happened to screaming into a pillow at home? I’m sure they recorded it and posted it to their social media accounts, because if you didn’t record it, it didn’t happen.

Thank God I have at the very least been around mostly sane people. Even friends and family I'd put on the fringe aren't like this. I would have spewed out rants on levels of insanity greater than anything I've seen here if I had to live the last two years like this. If anything it's made me intent on getting closer to some family I'd have ignored just because I learned they weren't all crazy.

Netflix is babysitting my daughter

Only a matter of time before it's your son then.

Which is another point I get from this. They can't wait to essentially get rid of their kids to the school, the daycare, the Netflix babysitter. If I ever do have kids that crap isn't going to work for me. If I've got to sort out a night job to be able to homeschool them, so be it. Can't send them off to be indoctrinated and turn into more of these. I can tell from the public schooled kids in my family and some of the things they say how much influence there is there. The schools do their best to force them into the approved mold. The only one I can think of that's different has very much a personality like mine, she resists and just wants to be left alone. She's essentially made into a weird outcast for it too.

Enough of my rant about that though. Want to get past this "Covid parents?" Just let your kids go back to 2019 again. Forget all of this nonsense. The world won't come to an end.

We can’t make this work. That’s the thing. That’s why moms are choosing to spend their nights—their precious moments of child-free time before the next endless day begins—screaming into the darkness. We can’t do this. It isn’t fair. It isn’t sustainable. Then we do it anyway. We hope that when this wave ends, we’ll have a brief respite to compose ourselves before the next one comes, and dream—in the few hours we actually sleep—of finally washing up on the shore of that more normal world we’ve been waiting for all this time. We do it because we have no other choice.

You actually do have a choice you dumb cunt

It’s hard to know what “good parenting” is when you have to make decisions like this—when you find yourself grieving the choices you make to keep your family and community safe. In the living room, my daughter just shivered and asked for a blanket.

lol what the fuck is this nonsense

It's been abuse for a while now.

Is this article really complaining about mothers having to raise their children?

X is at the point of absurdity... well no shit, everything has been turned upside down since covid. even porn

Last Thursday, a group of 20 mothers in Boston met up outside a local high school. Their goal wasn’t to socialize, drink wine, or even share COVID-related tips. They were there for one reason and one reason only: to stand in a circle—socially distanced, of course—and scream.

Women when they don't get attention for .025 seconds

When mothers feel there is no more appealing way to spend an evening than to yell into the frigid January darkness, something is very, very wrong. Parents in the United States

Agency and personal responsibility is dead. People can choose to scream into the sky in the middle of the night and somehow it's society's fault.

How do we keep our kids home from school when we’re expected to be back at work?

Have a stay at home parent, rearrange you and your spouse's work schedules to have someone always at home, live a simpler and cheaper life so the family isn't chained to a job.

My kids became fully vaccinated in late December, the same week that Omicron began spreading rapidly throughout the U.S. They were so excited to weave some normalcy back into their lives—to go to restaurants, to have sleepovers with friends, to do all the things my husband and I had previously told them were not worth the risk of infection. In fact, we had promised them we would do these things as soon as they were vaccinated. Then, because of Omicron, and the fear that we might inadvertently sicken the grandparents we were supposed to visit over the holidays, we had to go back on our word. They were heartbroken.

A vaccine so effective it has to be mandatory ladies and gentlemen!

but it is also disorienting and disheartening to have reached this milestone only to discover that life is still very much the same. We’re still wearing masks. Vaccinated people are still getting sick.

The richest people in the world got hundreds of billions of dollars richer due to the lockdowns. This is never going to end while it's still profitable. The conspiracy theorists were telling you this 5 months in.

Millions of children still aren’t eligible for a vaccine, and we don’t know yet when they will be

The $cience^TM can't explain why a shot for a respiratory virus causes severe periods in women and didn't know effectiveness would drop so quickly, but it knows for certain there will be no long term effects on kids under 5. Sort of like how investigators determined the Notre Dame fire wasn't arson before the flames were even extinguished

The early days of the pandemic were devastating, but at least, back then, “there was a consistent story... Now, he said, the messages we are getting seem to contradict one another.

Like how masks don't work, wash your grocery boxes, and 2 Weeks to Flatten the Curve?

We hope that when this wave ends, we’ll have a brief respite to compose ourselves before the next one comes,

At least they're starting to catch onto the plot, right?

Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American, a regular contributor to The New York Times, and the author of How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes.

All those poor kids getting raised by parents taking advice from this lady.