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Post by billhammond on May 12, 2020 16:42:52 GMT -5
In special Iowa Education Land, we're making two plans for special ed students this fall. One for what they call "brick and mortar" teaching, the other if things continue online until November. This is really depressing news to me. I'm sure for you, too.
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Post by Village Idiot on May 12, 2020 17:03:03 GMT -5
Yes. Especially for the kids who are stuck at home. There is no way that this is good for their development no matter the age. Social interaction is important. Especially for those two young to comprehend what they are being asked to do. Selfishly, I love to be around people, and seeing them on line in a zoom meeting, stacked up like Hollywood Squares, doesn't count. It gets old, doesn't it, Bill?
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Post by Cornflake on May 12, 2020 17:15:11 GMT -5
Bill, sorry to hear that. VI, I liked your post only in the sense of agreeing with it. This all sucks but there's not a lot we can do about it.
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Post by billhammond on May 12, 2020 17:17:54 GMT -5
Yes. Especially for the kids who are stuck at home. There is no way that this is good for their development no matter the age. Social interaction is important. Especially for those two young to comprehend what they are being asked to do. Selfishly, I love to be around people, and seeing them on line in a zoom meeting, stacked up like Hollywood Squares, doesn't count. It gets old, doesn't it, Bill? It's especially challenging when you live alone and can't get back to the office. Don't get me wrong -- I am extremely grateful and fortunate to continue to earn my same salary, and health insurance, and not have to commute and all that, but this house is no Shangri-La and I am getting tired of being planted here for eight hours per workday. And what you say about your students is kinda heartbreaking, really. This whole deal is just pretty hopeless, it seems so often.
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COVID 19
May 12, 2020 18:21:36 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on May 12, 2020 18:21:36 GMT -5
Musk's opening his plant today in direct defiance of the fascist COVID state. This could be the break that gives courage to others and cascades to stopping this nonsense.
Never been a starry eyed fan of Elon, but I've got to give him major props for this.
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COVID 19
May 12, 2020 19:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by majorminor on May 12, 2020 19:11:25 GMT -5
but this house is no Shangri-La I think you mean Shagri-La
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Post by Village Idiot on May 12, 2020 19:47:39 GMT -5
It's especially challenging when you live alone and can't get back to the office. Don't get me wrong -- I am extremely grateful and fortunate to continue to earn my same salary, and health insurance, and not have to commute and all that, but this house is no Shangri-La and I am getting tired of being planted here for eight hours per workday. And what you say about your students is kinda heartbreaking, really. This whole deal is just pretty hopeless, it seems so often. I'll be the first to say you have it off worse than me, I have someone that comes home every evening. But I find Monday mornings are the worse. Hard to get up then, isn't it? Kids are resilient, but that doesn't mean these circumstances aren't leaving an imprint on their minds. They'll have quite a tale to tell their kids and grandkids, just like those who grew up in the Spanish Kansas Pandemic, the Great Depression, and World Wars I and II. Bill, I'm sure you're planning on continuing your weekend drives through some of the most beautiful parts of the United States. I'm sure that helps greatly. When it's a good day, I take the doors off the Jeep and go on a drive myself. Just getting out that way is a big help, isn't it?
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Post by billhammond on May 12, 2020 19:50:31 GMT -5
It's especially challenging when you live alone and can't get back to the office. Don't get me wrong -- I am extremely grateful and fortunate to continue to earn my same salary, and health insurance, and not have to commute and all that, but this house is no Shangri-La and I am getting tired of being planted here for eight hours per workday. And what you say about your students is kinda heartbreaking, really. This whole deal is just pretty hopeless, it seems so often. I'll be the first to say you have it off worse than me, I have someone that comes home every evening. But I find Monday mornings are the worse. Hard to get up then, isn't it? Kids are resilient, but that doesn't mean these circumstances aren't leaving an imprint on their minds. They'll have quite a tale to tell their kids and grandkids, just like those who grew up in the Spanish Kansas Pandemic, the Great Depression, and World Wars I and II. Bill, I'm sure you're planning on continuing your weekend drives through some of the most beautiful parts of the United States. I'm sure that helps greatly. When it's a good day, I take the doors off the Jeep and go on a drive myself. Just getting out that way is a big help, isn't it? A big YES to everything you wrote.
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Post by jdd2 on May 12, 2020 19:58:01 GMT -5
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 12, 2020 20:38:06 GMT -5
Wow. ^ ^ ^
Mike
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Post by Cornflake on May 12, 2020 21:27:42 GMT -5
"Out of envy and spite, he dismantled the pandemic-warning apparatus his predecessors had bequeathed him."
I don't know about his motives but he certainly undercut our defenses to this threat and others. See The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, written before the pandemic hit.
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Post by aquaduct on May 13, 2020 4:56:13 GMT -5
"Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it.”
How deliciously ironic.
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Post by millring on May 13, 2020 6:26:14 GMT -5
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/?fbclid=IwAR3gZPXFRYnQangSQE3MR0y8m_XGdZV-VKy_7tIyuUFJwXS9SEmxPhwGyU4But the battle for a rational public policy is being waged against a national press and public policy makers who literally do not believe this is so. The irony is almost too much to believe. The very science community that has been battling with the "anti-vaxxer" movement for decades to maintain reasonable societal protection from threat of disease -- trying without success to get the "anti-vaxxer" to understand the astronomical odds against their child suffering ill consequences as a result of vaccinations.... ...is now using the math of those very "anti-vaxxers" to control society. It is now the science community that is spreading the fear of death despite the long odds on that being the outcome. In his book "Black Swans", Nicolas Taleb makes the observation that if the potential outcome is either unthinkably awful or unbelievably good, most humans cannot act rationally. That's why folks will spend an inordinate percentage of a paltry paycheck to buy lottery tickets. And it's how governments have shut down the world economy instead of enacting precautions by which we could both protect ourselves and continue to live productive lives. The government, acting irrationally, has inflamed a national sense of irrationality by advancing the false dichotomy that we could only either shut down the economy or die. One or the other. But it never was one or the other. And the odds have never been good that anyone was going to die. The odds are 100% in favor of a great number of people dying. The odds are still astronomically against most people -- even a remarkable percentage of people -- dying. Again, if the potential outcome is unthinkable, humans cannot act rationally.
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Post by aquaduct on May 13, 2020 8:11:42 GMT -5
Musk's opening his plant today in direct defiance of the fascist COVID state. This could be the break that gives courage to others and cascades to stopping this nonsense. Never been a starry eyed fan of Elon, but I've got to give him major props for this. Another fascist enclave is in a bind. Meeechigan
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Post by majorminor on May 13, 2020 8:28:53 GMT -5
No anti body testing available at the local clinic yet and when there might be one available is an unknown.
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Post by theevan on May 13, 2020 8:57:05 GMT -5
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/?fbclid=IwAR3gZPXFRYnQangSQE3MR0y8m_XGdZV-VKy_7tIyuUFJwXS9SEmxPhwGyU4But the battle for a rational public policy is being waged against a national press and public policy makers who literally do not believe this is so. The irony is almost too much to believe. The very science community that has been battling with the "anti-vaxxer" movement for decades to maintain reasonable societal protection from threat of disease -- trying without success to get the "anti-vaxxer" to understand the astronomical odds against their child suffering ill consequences as a result of vaccinations.... ...is now using the math of those very "anti-vaxxers" to control society. It is now the science community that is spreading the fear of death despite the long odds on that being the outcome. In his book "Black Swans", Nicolas Taleb makes the observation that if the potential outcome is either unthinkably awful or unbelievably good, most humans cannot act rationally. That's why folks will spend an inordinate percentage of a paltry paycheck to buy lottery tickets. And it's how governments have shut down the world economy instead of enacting precautions by which we could both protect ourselves and continue to live productive lives. The government, acting irrationally, has inflamed a national sense of irrationality by advancing the false dichotomy that we could only either shut down the economy or die. One or the other. But it never was one or the other. And the odds have never been good that anyone was going to die. The odds are 100% in favor of a great number of people dying. The odds are still astronomically against most people -- even a remarkable percentage of people -- dying. Again, if the potential outcome is unthinkable, humans cannot act rationally. So well said, John.
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Post by aquaduct on May 13, 2020 9:18:28 GMT -5
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Post by epaul on May 13, 2020 9:30:54 GMT -5
You convinced me. I'm going back to work, dammit!
Er...wait..., I, um, forgot. I don't work. Does Culvers count?
I'm going back to Culvers, dammit. Try stop me!
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Post by aquaduct on May 13, 2020 9:33:36 GMT -5
You convinced me. I'm going back to work, dammit! Er...wait..., I, um, forgot. I don't work. Does Culvers count? I'm going back to Culvers, dammit. Try stop me! I'm sure the people at Culvers would appreciate the business so whatever laid off staff can eat also. Good for you.
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Post by james on May 13, 2020 9:41:03 GMT -5
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