Levi’s Pushed Her Out When She Spoke Up Against COVID Madness, But Jennifer Sey Isn’t Done Talking (Part 2)

Jennifer Sey was on track to become CEO of multi-billion-dollar corporation Levi Strauss & Co., until she refused to shut up about COVID madness.

The well-liked liberal executive was pushed out at Levi’s in February 2022, after her vetting for CEO was derailed by social media posts and activism pushing back against school closures and mask policies for children.

Sey spoke to The Daily Wire about the ouster and more in Part One of our interview. In Part Two, the business woman and author opens up about her politics and discusses the aftermath of the disastrous COVID policies she fought against.

Here’s Part Two (emphasis added):

DW: Some Left-wing officials are now denying they had anything to do with prolonged  school closures, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. We also had CNN’s Jake Tapper last week say he was surprised we haven’t had a “national conversation” about the damage done to kids by closing schools. Who did help shutter our schools and what do you make of this denial?

SEY: Governors shut down the schools. By March 25, 2020, all U.S. public school buildings were closed – every single one, even in South Dakota and Florida. So although we never had a national lockdown in America, we did have what amounted to a national school shutdown in the spring of 2020.

Then, in the fall of 2020, public schools in red states, and private schools everywhere, mostly opened up, while public schools in blue states and school districts, by and large, remained closed. The direct responsibility for this devastating additional year of missed school lies with national, state, and local leaders of the Democratic Party.

Ultimately, however, the person who is most responsible for the extended closure of America’s schools is Anthony Fauci. He was both the face and the voice of America’s covid response from the beginning. If he had wanted the public schools to be open, they would have opened. Fauci wanted schools closed. He stoked fears about children being both disease vectors and at significant risk themselves, rather than allay fears. And he was obeyed by everyone at the beginning, and then he was obeyed mostly only by Democrats.

Claims by left-wing government and health officials, including Fauci, that they are not responsible for school shutdowns are lies. But everyone now wants to distance themselves from this catastrophic policy choice, so they’re all pretending that they didn’t do it and had no role in it. 

Despite the strenuous objections, and sometimes active resistance, of the Democrats, Governor Ron DeSantis forced Florida’s schools to open in the fall of 2020. But now, Florida’s Democratic candidate for governor, Charlie Crist, has gone so far as to accuse Governor DeSantis of doing a terrible thing by CLOSING schools earlier that year. The fact that no one is willing to take responsibility for closed schools is proof of how catastrophically wrong the policy was. 

Many parents, including myself, tried for two years to have a national conversation about the damage that would be caused by prolonged school closures. But journalists, education leaders, and public health officials furthered the narrative that anyone challenging school closures was a racist and wanted teachers to die. The threat of being called a racist – which was ostracizing and potentially even reason for dismissal from one’s job – kept many silent. This silencing of dissent created a kind of manufactured consensus. And now, given the unfolding catastrophe, everyone wants to distance themselves from the horrible decisions that were made. And they pretend that the coercion and silencing never happened.

It’s beyond maddening. Especially for those of who risked a great deal to speak out. I’d like an apology, but I’m not holding my breath. 

Courtesy of Jennifer Sey

DW: Do you think these people will ever be held responsible?

SEY: No. Short answer. No. In some instances, at the local level, they will be. They’ll be voted out. In San Francisco, three members of the board of education were recalled. But I don’t believe there will be a national consensus or a hearing of any kind that holds the key decision makers accountable. 

DW: Do you at all feel vindicated now that we see all the damage lockdowns have done, primarily to children?

SEY: In a sense, sure. But even now, the sense of vindication is pretty limited. One: the kids were harmed. We open-schools parents actually failed to influence sufficiently, to get schools open in a reasonable amount of time. We were up against a machine that was pretty crushing, we tried, but it didn’t happen.

Two: Even now, there is a huge percentage of people who say, “it was all necessary, millions of lives were saved” – a completely unprovable, and, in fact, factually