To the back of the line with you, union blokes. You flunk.

CHICAGO — As COVID-19 cases rose in the fall of 2021 and the Chicago Teachers Union fought for enhanced safety protocols and testing, the union used the death of a 32-year-old Jensen Elementary parent as an example of the danger posed by COVID-19 in the city’s schools.

However, the Cook County Medical Examiner now says that parent died of drinking too much alcohol and not COVID-19.

And what else have they said, in pursuit of their goals, that’s also wrong? For which give them more F’s.

The first rule of investigative journalism is to be equally suspicious of everyone. If your mother says she loves you, check it out. (This is not necessarily the best or happiest way to live, but somebody’s gotta do it.)

But somewhere along the way the [NY] Times etc forgot the first rule. They forgot that their job is not to be an arm of the public health establishment, no matter how much they love The Science, or the Democratic Party, now matter how much they hate Donald Trump.

That said, they blew it.