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Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
Jennifer Sey
Feb 14
Still, there’s something different about the people canceled for their Covid views. In several cases, not only were these people right, their opinions eventually became the absolute standard. People were fired or pushed out of their jobs for simply being ahead of the curve. ...
Jennifer Sey was chief marketing officer at Levi Strauss & Co., the global billion-dollar clothing company. She was destined for big things at Levi’s. If only she hadn’t said too soon what we all now know to be true.
Sey wanted schools to open and for children to return their normal lives. There is now absolutely nothing controversial about this opinion. Even when she was tweeting it in 2020 and 2021, she was entirely correct.
Like other companies attempting to weather the woke mob, Levi’s had publicly declared support for progressive causes, signed Supreme Court amicus briefs in support of gay marriage and trans rights and taken positions on gun control.
But then Sey called for an end to the lockdowns that we now know were pointless, pushed for open schools, which everyone claims to have supported all along, and generally prioritized children. For Levi’s, this was a problem. ...
Tom Goodwin “parted ways” with Publicis Groupe after he tweeted, in August 2020, that the intense focus on Covid deaths over other deaths was misplaced. We now know and accept that people died from alcoholism, suicide, drug overdoses, cancers for which they missed screenings and just plain loneliness, specifically due to lockdown. Goodwin’s comments are now generally accepted. No, we can’t fight Covid at the expense of literally everything else. Data shows that the US experienced hundreds of thousands of “excess” deaths aside from Covid, mostly affecting the poor.
Daniela Jampel is a mother of three and was until recently assistant corporation counsel for New York City. Jampel advocates for the removal of masks on two- to four-year-olds, a policy that no other western country employed through the pandemic but one that remains in place in NYC at the time of writing. Masking toddlers is as despicable as it is utterly redundant. No toddler can wear a mask correctly; anyone with even a passing knowledge of kids understands this. Jampel confronted New York City mayor Eric Adams on toddler-masking and was fired the next day.
Josh Stylman is a co-founder of the excellent Threes Brewing in Brooklyn. He described the vaccine mandates as a “crime against humanity” and unartfully compared them to showing your papers in Nazi Germany. Of course, if Nazi comparisons were enough to force someone out of a job, the presidencies of Donald Trump and George W. Bush would have prompted even greater mass unemployment. Stylman had described himself as pro-vaccine but anti-mandate, yet that didn’t save him, and he resigned his post. Now most people understand that the vaccine passports did absolutely nothing to help contain the spread of Covid-19, which is why requirements have been lifted in cities around the world.
The inability to engage with contrarian opinions, especially those proved correct, is a stain on our response to the pandemic. Cancel culture is real and it’s no longer limited to a small range of boutique issues. When the mob employs it on matters of public health, the stakes could not be higher.
I was called a racist repeatedly by employees of my company, Levi’s, for my open schools advocacy in San Francisco. Then I was pushed out of the company. Because, let’s face it, no one wants a racist as president of their brand.
Leading the way — and tacitly lending credence to the vicious charges against parents — was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Yet now, two and half years into the pandemic, Fauci insists we should have known all along he understood there would be harmful impacts from extended school closures. So why didn’t he stress this oh-so-obvious fact? Why didn’t he clearly state that, “yes, sad to say, there will be learning loss, as well as mental health impacts”? ...
At every turn, Fauci stoked rather than allayed fears.
In May 2020, nearly two months after Denmark had decided schools needed to reopen because the impacts on children were too harmful, Fauci testified before Congress. In response to President Trump agitating for schools and businesses to open, Fauci said that schools should open cautiously and in some places should remain closed in the fall. ...
We can only hope that as the devastating truths about pandemic policy and its unfolding consequences become clear, these doctors, epidemiologists, and open schools parents will be redeemed for their courage and foresight. And that Dr. Fauci’s abysmal performance and disastrous influence will be appropriately judged.
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