Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Honestly I'm going to take the kids are resilient stance (I have a kindergartner through 10th grader and a couple in-between), and things will catch up. I think you extend and add and everything else you're going to have a huge brushback. My kids are good students, knock on wood, and haven't felt they've regressed. The kindergartner was slow without the benefit of in person but it has been OK and he's slowly catching up. I would hate time added and I can only imagine how the kids and other families would feel. If anything the end of last year with no planning on how to do the remote learning was way worse than this year has been.

 

You can add onto that the fact that the teachers are exhausted. I have nothing to base this on other than a hunch, but I expect massive defections from the profession after the school year.

 

Also, there are a lot of 'climatological' issues with year-round schooling. Most buildings at least in my youth were not air conditioned and even if they were, the bills for that are going to be massive, not to mention power, school lunch food and various other 'consumables' that districts didn't budget for at the beginning of the year.

 

The replies to this tweet are heartbreaking, but in a good way.

 

This was interesting. The Last Pandemic on 60 Minutes Sunday. They've been working on this stuff and this piece claims that moving forward, the response will become much quicker.

Military programs aiming to end pandemics forever

 

And yet the same people who want to go back to the way things were in the 1950s now are against that because they think the one of the richest men in the world is conspiring with the government to put microchips in vaccines so the government can zap forests with lasers fueled by the blood of aborted fetuses, so that pedophiles who operate in the basement of a pizza parlor without a basement in the building won’t have a place to hide when the New World Order takes over thanks to Agenda 21.

 

US recommends ‘pause’ for J&J vaccine over clot reports

This could be problematic.

 

White House material:

Another cruise line will require vaccines; DeSantis says no

 

I understand how public health medicine works, but six people out of almost 7 million dosed got blood clots? Massachusetts has about 7 million residents. Nineteen of them died of covid YESTERDAY. The math doesn't seem to work here.

 

Just read the Times story and all six blood clot victims were women between the ages of 18-48. While obviously that's a large demographic, it isn't that large a group among the vaccinated. No woman in that age range (nor man) has been eligible for vaccination here in Mass. yet except health care workers, first responders and teachers. Bad news: That means the risk for that group is obviously larger than one in a million. Good news: If it's such a relatively specific risk group, guidelines for use of that particular vaccine can be adjusted relatively easily.