https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1329143889878523907?s=19
comment under this if you hate Nate Silver, itll give me endorphins
Also school is literally just glorified daycare, they cant do it from home because the whole point is the state watches your kid while you go to work, and now the state will give up on that, preferring to simply put you in jail if they find out your kid skipped.
Also the whole shoveling teachers into the furnace to keep the economy chugging along.
Because image what king of evil world it would be if a society could handle needing to allow parents to take care of their children during a pandemic.
I got into a fight with my sister (a huge radlib) because I said "America loathes its children" and she was wildly offended on behalf of Hillary Clinton or some shit
my response to that shit has always been and will always be "who do you think gave it to him?"
because fuck people that murder their children through medical neglect
"gods plan to give your child a disease that destroys his childhood instead of allowing him the health and joy of other children? a disease that might kill your child at a young age? what plan incorporates such measures? who would create such a plan and then act upon it?"
people who say that its gods plan are literally saying god is evil
edit: but good on your brother
As someone who also has an insane mom, I'm sorry that sucks comrade.
Ah yes, famous protector of children, Killary Clinton.
10/10 child slaves in Libya report supporting hers and Obamas actions in the country.
when a nation has a revolution nate silver is one of the kinds of liberals who leaves and then complains about it for the rest of his life in another country and people pay him to hear him complain about it and basically the people in the country he fled are glad to be rid of him
My friend sent me this thing on twitter where a 2nd grader (or around there) correctly predicted the electoral map of this election. I'm wondering where that child's multi-million dollar website platform is.
I hate Nate, and I'm no slouch at stats. Guy needs to be hit with the big book of experimental design until he learns how to pick sources and account for outside influences properly.
The things that scare me about kids as a vector during this pandemic are people letting their guard down more with kids and kids having more points of contact during a day. I don't get within 6 feet of anyone I can avoid. If I'm in public I only touch something if I think I'm buying it and take extra precautions with things like surfaces and hygiene. The elderly are still going to hug their grandkids when they watch them while their parents work. The parents are still going to sit in a car with recirculating air for hours every week with that kid and interact with them much more closely than I do practically anyone. When I worked emergency the #1 paediatric complaint we sent away was hand-foot-and-mouth disease because children are disgusting little monsters who love chewing on themselves and then touching things. At the grocery they're still acting normally and normal for them is licking their fingers while touching everything they see. Half the parents don't even mask them up- our minimum mandatory age is 10- and when they do the kids don't wear it properly or make any attempt to socially distance.
I have a 5 year old and an almost 3 year old and we make them both wear masks when we go anywhere and we get weird looks. Hardly anyone masks up their kids it's insane
In my suburb they're feral. Even during the early days of the mandatory lockdown when we were trying to keep it limited to a handful of counties, they were all outside doing normal kid stuff with kids from all of the other houses in an area that connects populations between two states and multiple rural areas. It was when I stopped having any faith in there being a coherent response to this. In public I've seen parents wearing masks and gloves while their three mask-less kids jump on anything they see like plague fleas before running back to grab each other and their parents.
Epidemiology/virology have always been super interesting to me and so I watched all the pandemic films before this ever happened. Not one of those films portrayed it as so goddamn stupid that you have to be morally agnostic toward it to stay sane. I can focus on society collapsing because people are spitting into each others' mouths because like 30% of them reject germ theory or I can focus on bad people catching it. There was never that film where the protagonist wants to scream at an old person for thinking basic hygiene is a Jewish conspiracy.
My county already has multiple outbreaks at middle schools where the kids fill the hallways without masks and crowd together at recess. All the variations of their individual viruses, of their classroom's virus ecosystem, of the building's, and of every home/business they visit just mixing together. Maybe their parents work at the nearby meatpacking plant that had a major outbreak they covered up. They could of course be nurses, one of those middle class professions that still allows home ownership in that area. Maybe they're just renting because their parents are essential workers in any number of fields with close contact being impossible or culturally discouraged.
On the other hand, if we all stayed home for a whole month then I couldn't go to Applebees and make a poor person risk dying to serve me bad food. Gotta break a million eggs or more to make an omelette.
I wrote a post in relation to positivity rate and Vietnam if anyone is interested.
Eh.
Online school sucks. If there is anything that we should prioritize having open, it's schools.
If we can have restaurants open with the kitchen staff breathing down each other's necks, we should have schools open.
I think it’s fair to say that minority kids are disproportionately impacted in a negative way by schools being online. Schools should be the only places open and teachers should be receiving hazard pay like military gets in a war zone
Ok I'm a teacher in Germany. I'm already well paid. But we are constantly overworked. I try to get part time but no chance "we don't have enough math teachers you have to work fulltime." Honestly the schools closing in April was so nice. In online conferences I could mute all children and only unmute them when they wanted to say something productive while in class it is a constant struggle against the clowns with the younger children. I could sleep long enough because I didn't have to be in front of a class at 7:20 in the morning. I usually had all my assignments done by wednesday and then mostly answered requests from kids and parents in my pyjamas. My mental health honestly greatly improved even in quarantine.
I get your point poor children and minorities suffer a disproportionate negative effect from this (but also the spoiled failsons of rich families who never learned organizing their work), but I would rather have a compensation I could actually use like teaching one class less next year instead of more money that I'm too tired to actually spent.
Not really. Ideally, we'd actually have a 6 week full lockdown. If we're not going to do that though and we have to prioritize what should remain open, first priority should be public services like libraries and schools.
That's not internalizing some nefarious logic.
