Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Inky_Wretch · Jul 8, 2020

Said the man broadcasting from his own home because his workplace doesn't want people to return to it due to the pandemic.

Inky_Wretch · Jul 8, 2020

N.Y.C. Schools, Nation’s Largest District, Will Not Fully Reopen in Fall

Jerry-atric · Jul 8, 2020

Inky_Wretch said: ↑

N.Y.C. Schools, Nation’s Largest District, Will Not Fully Reopen in Fall
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This is very much-needed good news for this forum!

FileNotFound · Jul 8, 2020

Inky_Wretch said: ↑

Said the man broadcasting from his own home because his workplace doesn't want people to return to it due to the pandemic.
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These people are willfully stupid.

poindexter · Jul 8, 2020

Inky_Wretch said: ↑

Said the man broadcasting from his own home because his workplace doesn't want people to return to it due to the pandemic.
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do you know he works from home for sure? Because I would like to steal this

Azrael · Jul 8, 2020

Mayor of Atlanta tests positive

8 days to get test results

Inky_Wretch · Jul 8, 2020

poindexter said: ↑

do you know he works from home for sure? Because I would like to steal this
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I'm making an assumption on the screenshot and this ...

Fox News Postpones Return to Office Again Amid Pandemic (Exclusive)

I could be wrong.

Azrael · Jul 8, 2020

Arizona ER doc on the back-to-school plan

Neutral Corner · Jul 8, 2020

This is the wife of the asshole who threatened the old lady at a Costco in Florida. He's been fired, but listen to this nonsense. No chance either of them have learned a damn thing.

FileNotFound · Jul 8, 2020

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This is the wife of the asshole who threatened the old lady at a Costco in Florida. He's been fired, but listen to this nonsense. No chance either of them have learned a damn thing.

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Parody.

Alma · Jul 8, 2020

What I wrote in May on Trump and schools. I think it still stands. He’s a bad leader for this kind of initiative because he gives no one cover.

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Here's where having Trump as prez hurts us: The schools.

The schools should have probably reopened in some places, or, perhaps not closed. But, all in all, we could live with the last two months, more or less. Teachers hated it. Students were disengaged. Parents, not sure how they did it, but it seems to have been a survival there nationwide. Next fall? Next fall should be a no-brainer. We need in-person school in as many places as possible. Without a doubt. And there a lot of parts of the nation either very unsure of that or teetering about on the matter.

And if we had a calmer, more organized, less insecure, more confidently-prepared president, I don't there'd be any teetering. I think that person would have said "hey, however we have to do it, a great deal of energy needs to be put toward getting that done by fall. It needs to be a national priority and the buck will stop with me on making that happen," you'd see governors, mayors, school districts, principals, line up behind that. unless the Kawasaki thing is some widespread killer that it has not yet proven to be. You'd see most of the media do the same. There, I think, you could see a lot of factions come together, because most people, outside of the deeply-almost-unaccountably-afraid, can see the value of their kids in school. It could be something we said we did, too, if nothing else - protect the learning environment for the "future," instead of being fixated on death.

But I don't think Trump's the kind of guy who can take on the shit that invariably comes with such an initiative. Because there'd be screamers, doomy scientists, and you'd have to dial back the urge of your top scientists to do every interview on the docket, and you'd have to get some governors and mayors in gear, and it'd be tough. Especially for a guy like Trump. His biggest weakness might be his innate inability to ever be responsible for an actual failure, or, even more importantly, cover for someone else's fuckup. (Which good presidents must sometimes do.) He inspires no confidence, makes few real concrete decisions for fear of consequences traced back to him, and thus, pushes all the decision-making down the trough, again and again, further and further into our various bureaucracies where - and I mean this as sharp criticism with a dose of real empathy - there are people who are where they are, in the station they're at, because their lack of dynamic intellect or extra moral cowardice have limited them to that station, and given latitude to make bold, hard choices, will almost always opt for safe, quasi-draconian solutions that have zero trust in the people they govern and advise and are akin to send a child to her room for as long as they can get away with because mom/dad needs to think. Trump's selfish brand of leadership actually empowers those kinds of folks, who damn well know they won't get a lick of cover from Trump.

I wish we had more effective local leaders around the nation, who weren't so scared of what local (or national) media says, or Twitter says, or didn't have staffs who were, and I wish we had higher learning institutions that did a better job of framing decision-making as something more than watching out for the most vulnerable denominator, as if policy is a religious text that must have secular, virtue-signaling piety at the forefront of goals. But we don't. They need better cover from a president who won't give it to them. And so you have career superintendents and ed commissioners and public health types weighing the value of education against whether or not Vox or some other online news outlet will have a shitfit over 5 cases of coronavirus, or somebody's grandmother's brother in a nursing contact tracing back to the fifth-grader whose friend's dad works at the packing plant.

Trump could lead there. In theory. But he can't. He wouldn't, but, beyond that, he lacks the ability.
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BTExpress · Jul 8, 2020

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Parody.
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Parody. Satire. Sense of humor required. Been sucked out of this doom-loving place.

Blaire Erskine is a wannabe comedian. She referred to her kids "Jackson, Oakland Cemetery and Hydroxychloroquine" in the video and said they have asthma "whenever it's convenient."

smh

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