christiefan915 (11-24-2020), ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
christiefan915 (11-24-2020), ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
Comrade dookie, by now post members of this forum know you are serving as Putin's cock holster. You are free to spew all the lies and bullshit you like, but I have full confidence most Americans will see through your bullshit.
Beware, son; if you are really living in the US and you have the balls to push the same bullshit IRL that you are pushing here, some American patriots will prove to you why your treasonous lies are wrong.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Other than infecting their teachers (and adults at home), the younger kids don't seem to be transmitting the virus as much as the middle and h.s. kids. Closing the schools though becomes necessary, like you pointed out, when they don't have enough teachers and/or subs. It really does suck for the younger kids and their parents as well. There is no good answer.
Two of our neighbors are retired teachers. We've been wondering how to help a new family who moved on our road during the summer. They are in the process of building a home and are living in a very cramped little RV trailer on another neighbor's property. There are four kids; I think that the oldest is ~10 or so. The mom works in a nursing home and the kids were going to our small school up here until it closed due to the pandemic. They don't have Internet so they can't learn remotely. We are all older and don't feel safe risking in-person help due to their mom's employment situation. Do you have any suggestions how we could help them out w/o getting exposed?
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Phantasmal (11-24-2020)
Agreed. Another excellent point.
What comrade dookie is foolish, or purposefully, overlooking is that it isn't the children who are most at risk. If all the teachers, coaches, admin staff, bus drivers and janitors were robots who could be hosed down every class with disinfectant, it wouldn't be a problem. Since that's obviously not the case, then the best way to regain control of this pandemic is to minimize transmission of the disease in all vectors.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
Yep. I was thinking today that this pandemic and why the way it's been approached in this country is so fucked up. Remember when you were a kid and there was a toy or some other object that you desperately wanted? Instead of spending your allowance and birthday money on little stuff, you sacrificed and saved until you had enough for the desired object.
Instead of shutting down *everything* for a month or so, and mandating masks and social distancing nationwide (the sacrifice), we just behaved like spoiled brats... and now look.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Doc Dutch (11-24-2020)
Doc Dutch (11-24-2020), ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
It is fucked up. While America is often slow to rise to the occasion, history proves it has always done so.
The events of our times are another reason, despite all the shit I've given them, that I believe Millennials will become the Greatest Generation of the 21st Century. All the elements are there just like the 20th century's Greatest Generation: the greed, the selfishness, the poverty, the harm to the economic system and the wars.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
All wars suck and, yes, it's usually the older kids who suffer most. Nonetheless, the situation must be dealt with. You are 100% correct: there are no good answers and that sucks. Americans are going to be hurt and Americans are going to die. All We, the People can do is minimize the harm.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Phantasmal (11-25-2020)
My klds don't have any living grandparents and the science seems to say they are not a risk to others. Nobody is stopping you from keeping yours home, though.
I think it should vary from place to place but most young kids should be in school. Middle and high schoolers could do fine with distance learning.
ThatOwlWoman (11-24-2020)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Controlled Opposition (11-25-2020)
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