Just to the left here is a screen shot of an actual op-ed in an actual newspaper. The author is serious (I think).
I leave to readers the responsibility of drawing their own conclusions, but here I can speak with first-hand, professional knowledge: Teaching over Zoom is pathetic, deformed, and utterly inadequate relative to teaching in person. Everything in my nearly 40-year-long career of teaching at the collegiate level – and for nearly two years now teaching chiefly over Zoom (well, Blackboard; but same thing essentially) – runs counter to what this op-ed writer reports.