Pandemic 2020
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captainmorgan
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Why is he working the "you don't need a vaccine if you've recovered from covid" angle so incredibly hard? That doesn't even seem like a point that people are disputing.
hanimmal
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Is it really even a point? Or is it just bullshit that he is pretending is out there based on some troll interpretation and statistical manipulation?
Yes, that! He's creating a false conflict so that he can be right about something that isn't even a point of contention.
hanimmal
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I think of is as the the jedi mind trick troll.
It is not clever, and people don't believe it, but they are so sick and tired of the bullshit that they might not say anything because they consider the effort is wasted energy.
Fogdog
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This essay on the tragedy of education during the pandemic was pretty good. The author shares my opinion of online learning. Last year was an effing disaster in my area. It's going to take a a while to get my youngest back on track:
I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace.
www.nytimes.com
I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself. Meanwhile nurses, bus drivers and grocery workers all went to work in person — most of my students’ parents went to work in person — not because it was safe but because their work is essential. Spare me your “the kids are all right” Facebook memes. Some children may have learned to do laundry or enjoy nature during the pandemic. Many others suffered trauma and disconnection that will take years to repair.
I don’t know the first thing about public health. I won’t venture an opinion on what impact the school closures had on controlling the spread of Covid. What I do know is that the private schools in our city quickly got to work upgrading HVAC systems, putting up tents, cutting class sizes and rearranging schedules so that they could reopen in relative safety. Public schools in other states and countries did the same.
More of our public school systems should have likewise moved mountains — repurposed buildings, reassigned staff, redesigned programming, reallocated funding — to offer consistent public schooling, as safely as possible, to all children.
Instead we opened restaurants and gyms and bars while kids stayed home, or got complicated hybrid schedules that many parents turned down because they offered even less stability than virtual school. Even now, with vaccinations rising and case rates dropping, some families remain reluctant to send their kids back to us in the fall. I can’t help thinking that’s because we broke their trust.
Does virtual learning work for some kids, in some circumstances? Sure. So does home-schooling, or not attending school at all. But I am profoundly relieved that most districts, including my own, plan to shut down or restrict the online option
I quit the idea of enrolling him in summer school when I heard it will be online. He's vaccinated, got a job washing dishes so he's going to have his own money in his pocket and I hope he catches up on being a kid again. He's had enough time around me. It's time to go out and do stuff he can't tell me about.
I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace.
Opinion | I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace. (Published 2021)
Remote learning needs to end with the pandemic.
I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself. Meanwhile nurses, bus drivers and grocery workers all went to work in person — most of my students’ parents went to work in person — not because it was safe but because their work is essential. Spare me your “the kids are all right” Facebook memes. Some children may have learned to do laundry or enjoy nature during the pandemic. Many others suffered trauma and disconnection that will take years to repair.
I don’t know the first thing about public health. I won’t venture an opinion on what impact the school closures had on controlling the spread of Covid. What I do know is that the private schools in our city quickly got to work upgrading HVAC systems, putting up tents, cutting class sizes and rearranging schedules so that they could reopen in relative safety. Public schools in other states and countries did the same.
More of our public school systems should have likewise moved mountains — repurposed buildings, reassigned staff, redesigned programming, reallocated funding — to offer consistent public schooling, as safely as possible, to all children.
Instead we opened restaurants and gyms and bars while kids stayed home, or got complicated hybrid schedules that many parents turned down because they offered even less stability than virtual school. Even now, with vaccinations rising and case rates dropping, some families remain reluctant to send their kids back to us in the fall. I can’t help thinking that’s because we broke their trust.
Does virtual learning work for some kids, in some circumstances? Sure. So does home-schooling, or not attending school at all. But I am profoundly relieved that most districts, including my own, plan to shut down or restrict the online option
I quit the idea of enrolling him in summer school when I heard it will be online. He's vaccinated, got a job washing dishes so he's going to have his own money in his pocket and I hope he catches up on being a kid again. He's had enough time around me. It's time to go out and do stuff he can't tell me about.
this has been before but not with the internet.I think of is as the the jedi mind trick troll.
It is not clever, and people don't believe it, but they are so sick and tired of the bullshit that they might not say anything because they consider the effort is wasted energy.
is your youngest alive?This essay on the tragedy of education during the pandemic was pretty good. The author shares my opinion of online learning. Last year was an effing disaster in my area. It's going to take a a while to get my youngest back on track:
I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace.
Opinion | I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace. (Published 2021)
Remote learning needs to end with the pandemic.
I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself. Meanwhile nurses, bus drivers and grocery workers all went to work in person — most of my students’ parents went to work in person — not because it was safe but because their work is essential. Spare me your “the kids are all right” Facebook memes. Some children may have learned to do laundry or enjoy nature during the pandemic. Many others suffered trauma and disconnection that will take years to repair.
I don’t know the first thing about public health. I won’t venture an opinion on what impact the school closures had on controlling the spread of Covid. What I do know is that the private schools in our city quickly got to work upgrading HVAC systems, putting up tents, cutting class sizes and rearranging schedules so that they could reopen in relative safety. Public schools in other states and countries did the same.
More of our public school systems should have likewise moved mountains — repurposed buildings, reassigned staff, redesigned programming, reallocated funding — to offer consistent public schooling, as safely as possible, to all children.
Instead we opened restaurants and gyms and bars while kids stayed home, or got complicated hybrid schedules that many parents turned down because they offered even less stability than virtual school. Even now, with vaccinations rising and case rates dropping, some families remain reluctant to send their kids back to us in the fall. I can’t help thinking that’s because we broke their trust.
Does virtual learning work for some kids, in some circumstances? Sure. So does home-schooling, or not attending school at all. But I am profoundly relieved that most districts, including my own, plan to shut down or restrict the online option
I quit the idea of enrolling him in summer school when I heard it will be online. He's vaccinated, got a job washing dishes so he's going to have his own money in his pocket and I hope he catches up on being a kid again. He's had enough time around me. It's time to go out and do stuff he can't tell me about.
They lost their loved ones to Covid. Then they heard from them again | CNN
Some people say they've been contacted in recent months -- via visions, voices and symbols -- by a loved one who died from coronavirus. These encounters that may sound implausible, but they're in fact part of a historical pattern.
Ozumoz66
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Dr.Amber Trichome
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He is lucky to have you as his father ! Happy Father’s Day, dog.This essay on the tragedy of education during the pandemic was pretty good. The author shares my opinion of online learning. Last year was an effing disaster in my area. It's going to take a a while to get my youngest back on track:
I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace.
Opinion | I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace. (Published 2021)
Remote learning needs to end with the pandemic.
I am still bewildered and horrified that our society walked away from this responsibility, that we called school inessential and left each family to fend for itself. Meanwhile nurses, bus drivers and grocery workers all went to work in person — most of my students’ parents went to work in person — not because it was safe but because their work is essential. Spare me your “the kids are all right” Facebook memes. Some children may have learned to do laundry or enjoy nature during the pandemic. Many others suffered trauma and disconnection that will take years to repair.
I don’t know the first thing about public health. I won’t venture an opinion on what impact the school closures had on controlling the spread of Covid. What I do know is that the private schools in our city quickly got to work upgrading HVAC systems, putting up tents, cutting class sizes and rearranging schedules so that they could reopen in relative safety. Public schools in other states and countries did the same.
More of our public school systems should have likewise moved mountains — repurposed buildings, reassigned staff, redesigned programming, reallocated funding — to offer consistent public schooling, as safely as possible, to all children.
Instead we opened restaurants and gyms and bars while kids stayed home, or got complicated hybrid schedules that many parents turned down because they offered even less stability than virtual school. Even now, with vaccinations rising and case rates dropping, some families remain reluctant to send their kids back to us in the fall. I can’t help thinking that’s because we broke their trust.
Does virtual learning work for some kids, in some circumstances? Sure. So does home-schooling, or not attending school at all. But I am profoundly relieved that most districts, including my own, plan to shut down or restrict the online option
I quit the idea of enrolling him in summer school when I heard it will be online. He's vaccinated, got a job washing dishes so he's going to have his own money in his pocket and I hope he catches up on being a kid again. He's had enough time around me. It's time to go out and do stuff he can't tell me about.
speaking of dog.... wasn
t Champ the most beautiful dog? Rip. He was such a cute puppy. I feel so bad for the Biden’s.
Fogdog
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we dealt with the pandemic as best we could. The first term in spring of 2020, I did not realize how badly prepared I was. I figured working from home would be enough to keep track of their online schooling. I was wrong. Eventually I went part-time at work so that I could keep track of them during the school day and help them out when they lost focus. But I was late in realizing how badly things were going that semester and both kids fell behind in their progress.
I'm not a teacher so I took online learning classes. Cooperative learning. Things are so different from when I was in HS. This year, my oldest graduated with not great grades but was accepted at the university of his choice and we'll see how it goes next year. Youngest regressed, not just in his education but socially. He still has a couple of years to go before graduation. We are seeing a counselor. Although I consider their education to be their main job, I encouraged him to get a part time job this summer in order to get him out and among people again. We're trying figure it out. Other people have had different results but for me, my kids need in-person classroom learning.
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captainmorgan
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Delta now accounts for 96% of new infections in the UK and in the USA it has gone from 10% to 31% in the last week, here it comes.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Very important to get that second vaccination because it’s the biggest threat to partially vaccinated individuals .
The research found that two doses of a COVID vaccine provided 81 percent protection against the B.1.617.2 variant (compared with 87 percent protection against the B.1.1.7 variant). One dose only provided 33 percent protection against symptomatic infection from B.1.617.2 (compared with 51 percent protection against B.1.1.7). That means, according to a Financial Times analysis, that a single dose is 35 percent less effective against B.1.617.2 than it is against B.1.1.7.
it's okay; it's been a big change for all of us with different outcomes because you know why.
my point was your family is safe and sound.
priorities friend
captainmorgan
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I read that it's usually fatal there.
www.yahoo.com
Tens of thousands of COVID-19 survivors in India are developing deadly 'black fungus' infections that can lead to blindness
The number of infections have shot up to 31,000 in the past few weeks. Doctors believe a lack of bottled oxygen may be to blame for the rise.
Time to take out the trash...I'm thinking that he is an obvious troll. His one-week stay has been solely troll posts. In the grow section he is asking newbie questions and making ridiculous claims. Then in this forum he is saying anything that will rile people up and garner attention.
I doubt he will have a second week.
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