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.