CDC has consistently said that masking, vaccination, social distancing and better air filtration - all done together - are the best way to deal with this. No one has - in a long time - said there's only one solution.
Yes they do. But they are still better then nothing - and tightly woven cloth is better then loose.
I hope you understand that what you and everyone else are decrying is just how science works. And over and over masks keep being said by scientists to be effective as part of a multi-prong solution.
The AARP actually advocates against it, but in an economy where we deludedly tell ourselves that mysterious "market" forces set wages, experienced workers command a premium that companies don't seem to be willing to pay. As the Great Resignation rolls on I expect that to change somewhat, but it's hard to tell exactly how that plays out.
The “authorities”, and the mainstream media are going to try and memory hole it and spin things like “no one EVER said wearing a cloth mask prevented transmission of the virus. Who said that, some crazy Trump supporter?”
I'm am getting so weary of reporting this:
A cloth mask is intended to trap respiratory droplets that are released when the wearer talks, coughs or sneezes. It also acts as a barrier to protect the wearer from inhaling droplets released by others.
The decision to phase out nuclear power and shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy was first taken by the center-left government of Gerhard Schroeder in 2002. His successor, Angela Merkel, reversed her decision to extend the lifetime of Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan and set 2022 as the final deadline for shutting them down.
Like a great many around here, Jaybird can't accept that the words you chose mean what they mean on their face because so many of his words don't mean what they mean on their face.
The main Keystone pipeline is still in place, and still pumping oil south from Canada into the US. What Biden revoked the permits for was the extension directly to Nebraska, which even the American Petroleum Institute admitted simply duplicated existing pipeline and railcar capacity. Canadian oil never started or stopped flowing in that pipe, and today it still flows via the existing pipelines.
If you want to get mad at someone regarding US Oil policy, the judge in this story might deserve some of your wrath, since he actually prevented Biden from doing something that Biden said he would to keep oil flowing:
A US federal judge has blocked a highly controversial sale of oil and gas drilling leases across 80m acres of the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that Joe Biden’s administration did not properly consider the leases’ impact upon the climate crisis.
The decision, handed down by the DC court late on Thursday, represents a landmark victory for environmental groups that had sued the government to prevent what was the largest ever auction of oil and gas leases in the gulf’s history.
“I’m thrilled the court saw through the Biden administration’s horribly reckless decision to hold the largest oil lease sale in US history without carefully studying the risks,” said Kristen Monsell, oceans legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
It’s a “nothingburger” in that what he did was legal.
The outrageous part is it’s legal to hire the relative of a powerful politician for a high paying nothing job that requires no skills or experience or anything other than having a powerful parent.
I remember saying as much at the time on OT and being repeatedly told I needed to go sit in the corner and suck my thumb because I didn't understand why this meant Trump should remain president and Biden shouldn't get elected. Good times.
Most teachers I know are happy to discuss why they choose the books they do - though as Chip notes below they are often constrained in what they teach because of the curriculum approved by the board.
Oh no, he's well aware. And like a lot of us, adding the COVID 19 vaccine to the long list of required vaccines is a no brainer. It's not any more controversial then the annual flu shot (which many districts require), or changes to the formulations of the other vaccinations kids regularly need to take.
My room mate as an undergrad minored in Russian studies and was in Moscow and surrounding areas in 1991. He learned a lot and passed it on.
And I agree they see themselves as more then Communists. That said, a LOT of the US foreign policy apparatus is from that era and still hasn't retired or died off.
Parents - in every school I have been affiliated with (public and private) have always had open and free access to syllabi, course materials and the teachers. The teachers I have worked with, and others I know as adults, are more then willing to be fully open and communicative. They are also trained to teach. Which means they do more then parents do about how to teach. Just like plumbers know more then I do about removing sh!t water from my house; or welders know more about how to put pieces of a car frame together better then I do; or drywall guys know better how to mud and float then I do. You know better then I do how to do your job. Teaching is no different.
You can track people with a small gadget (with a magnet) that reads back to your cell phone.
There are cameras in stores, banks, parking lots, retail spaces and some workplaces.
Most employers have keystroke trackers in their computers.
You have use incognito browsers to keep from being tracked online.
We carry things in our pockets that we call phones that can track us wherever we are with or without our permission.
The horse is well past the barn door. We are now debating how big it should be and how far it will go into the field.
If we had been more wise we would have understood that if they were not going to be a stakeholder they would eventually become what they are now.
My vague recollection as a college kid at the time was that a lot of people did raise this very possibility. I also remember a lot of folks not believing Gorbachev or Yeltsin were in any way serious about anything.
Putin views the fall of the USSR as the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. He would like to put it back together again.
That’s not a goal that can be reconciled with the Ukraine being independent of Russian domination. For that matter it’s not even a goal that can be reconciled with Poland being independent of Russian domination. Fear of that goal is why Poland is a NATO member and Ukraine wants to be.
This is true. And it provides a nice foil from which Putin can quell any rising forces of democracy in his own yard.
I have addressed the arguments on both topics. I generally disagree with the stated purposes of both efforts and the probably outcomes.
And no, the exact same state senator In Iowa is not necessarily proposing BOTH things. I didn't believe that had to be the case for purposes of these discussions. Nice dodge though.
Don't know what? That Republican state legislators in several states are proposing both cameras in class rooms and removing books by and about Black and LGBTQA+ authors?
Yeah I do know that as its reported in local and national media. You know it too . . . whether you want to accept it or not . . . .
Very few of the legislative proposals in state legislatures - which is where these things are coming up - appear to be about what the parents really want.
What would that parent who feels entitled to question pedagogical method base his questioning on? Other then vague uncomfortablesness (which is more likely about subject not method) that parent has no idea how to really, really teach kids. That's why school systems hire people with advanced degrees to teach kids.
So far, camera's in class room bills have only been proposed by Republican legislator in Republican led states. So far, the calls to ban or remove books about and by Black authors, LGBTQ+ authors, and regarding the Holocaust have come from Republican state politicians or "conservative" school board members. These are the news stories. Based on publicly available information, the Venn Diagram covering these two groups is nearly a circle.
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CDC has consistently said that masking, vaccination, social distancing and better air filtration - all done together - are the best way to deal with this. No one has - in a long time - said there's only one solution.
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Yes they do. But they are still better then nothing - and tightly woven cloth is better then loose.
I hope you understand that what you and everyone else are decrying is just how science works. And over and over masks keep being said by scientists to be effective as part of a multi-prong solution.
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The AARP actually advocates against it, but in an economy where we deludedly tell ourselves that mysterious "market" forces set wages, experienced workers command a premium that companies don't seem to be willing to pay. As the Great Resignation rolls on I expect that to change somewhat, but it's hard to tell exactly how that plays out.
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I'm am getting so weary of reporting this:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
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https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/correction-germany-nuclear-shutdown-story-82051054#:~:text=The%20decision%20to%20phase%20out,of%20Gerhard%20Schroeder%20in%202002.&text=Advocates%20of%20atomic%20energy%20argue,for%20reducing%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions.
If I am going to keep doing your research for you I need to get paid better.
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Like a great many around here, Jaybird can't accept that the words you chose mean what they mean on their face because so many of his words don't mean what they mean on their face.
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The main Keystone pipeline is still in place, and still pumping oil south from Canada into the US. What Biden revoked the permits for was the extension directly to Nebraska, which even the American Petroleum Institute admitted simply duplicated existing pipeline and railcar capacity. Canadian oil never started or stopped flowing in that pipe, and today it still flows via the existing pipelines.
If you want to get mad at someone regarding US Oil policy, the judge in this story might deserve some of your wrath, since he actually prevented Biden from doing something that Biden said he would to keep oil flowing:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/gulf-of-mexico-oil-gas-drilling-leases-judge-blocks-climate-biden
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I remember saying as much at the time on OT and being repeatedly told I needed to go sit in the corner and suck my thumb because I didn't understand why this meant Trump should remain president and Biden shouldn't get elected. Good times.
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Here here.
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you should spend some time searching Tik Tok, Instagram and even YouTube if you think this is a yet to come sort of thing.
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Most teachers I know are happy to discuss why they choose the books they do - though as Chip notes below they are often constrained in what they teach because of the curriculum approved by the board.
On “Vladimir Putin Speech on Ukraine: Read It For Yourself”
"Whataboutism" - one of the great traditions at OT.
On “Concerning Proposals To Place Cameras In School Classrooms”
Oh no, he's well aware. And like a lot of us, adding the COVID 19 vaccine to the long list of required vaccines is a no brainer. It's not any more controversial then the annual flu shot (which many districts require), or changes to the formulations of the other vaccinations kids regularly need to take.
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And the Party that wants cameras in the classroom . . . .
On “Vladimir Putin Speech on Ukraine: Read It For Yourself”
My room mate as an undergrad minored in Russian studies and was in Moscow and surrounding areas in 1991. He learned a lot and passed it on.
And I agree they see themselves as more then Communists. That said, a LOT of the US foreign policy apparatus is from that era and still hasn't retired or died off.
On “Concerning Proposals To Place Cameras In School Classrooms”
Parents - in every school I have been affiliated with (public and private) have always had open and free access to syllabi, course materials and the teachers. The teachers I have worked with, and others I know as adults, are more then willing to be fully open and communicative. They are also trained to teach. Which means they do more then parents do about how to teach. Just like plumbers know more then I do about removing sh!t water from my house; or welders know more about how to put pieces of a car frame together better then I do; or drywall guys know better how to mud and float then I do. You know better then I do how to do your job. Teaching is no different.
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You can track people with a small gadget (with a magnet) that reads back to your cell phone.
There are cameras in stores, banks, parking lots, retail spaces and some workplaces.
Most employers have keystroke trackers in their computers.
You have use incognito browsers to keep from being tracked online.
We carry things in our pockets that we call phones that can track us wherever we are with or without our permission.
The horse is well past the barn door. We are now debating how big it should be and how far it will go into the field.
On “Vladimir Putin Speech on Ukraine: Read It For Yourself”
My vague recollection as a college kid at the time was that a lot of people did raise this very possibility. I also remember a lot of folks not believing Gorbachev or Yeltsin were in any way serious about anything.
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This is true. And it provides a nice foil from which Putin can quell any rising forces of democracy in his own yard.
On “Concerning Proposals To Place Cameras In School Classrooms”
I have addressed the arguments on both topics. I generally disagree with the stated purposes of both efforts and the probably outcomes.
And no, the exact same state senator In Iowa is not necessarily proposing BOTH things. I didn't believe that had to be the case for purposes of these discussions. Nice dodge though.
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Don't know what? That Republican state legislators in several states are proposing both cameras in class rooms and removing books by and about Black and LGBTQA+ authors?
Yeah I do know that as its reported in local and national media. You know it too . . . whether you want to accept it or not . . . .
"
Very few of the legislative proposals in state legislatures - which is where these things are coming up - appear to be about what the parents really want.
"
What would that parent who feels entitled to question pedagogical method base his questioning on? Other then vague uncomfortablesness (which is more likely about subject not method) that parent has no idea how to really, really teach kids. That's why school systems hire people with advanced degrees to teach kids.
"
So far, camera's in class room bills have only been proposed by Republican legislator in Republican led states. So far, the calls to ban or remove books about and by Black authors, LGBTQ+ authors, and regarding the Holocaust have come from Republican state politicians or "conservative" school board members. These are the news stories. Based on publicly available information, the Venn Diagram covering these two groups is nearly a circle.
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The proposals I have read so far all use language suggesting real time access by parents. That may be loose talk, but it's in play.