So words and *GeStUrEs* are the way to tackle it, but the practical measures that actually target the issue are not. OK. Perhaps we should just tell the virus how fed up of it we are, I'm sure that will make it go away.
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So words and *GeStUrEs* are the way to tackle it, but the practical measures that actually target the issue are not. OK. Perhaps we should just tell the virus how fed up of it we are, I'm sure that will make it go away.
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Coughing and sneezing spreads the virus particles more violently, reaching more space quicker. Sneezing is the worst I believe, and breathing the safest (in relative terms, of course).
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Well, it survives for enough time in air for the method of exhalation to be fairly irrelevant, is my point.
It's why a lot of effort has been directed at ventilation in indoor spaces, to keep the particles moving out of enclosed spaces and fresh air brought in.
This is actually one of the more annoying parts about wearing masks. I've had to repeat myself multiple times because people couldn't understand what the heck I was saying.
edit: I don't have a stake in children wearing face masks at school, as I don't have children myself. However, if a kid wants to wear a face mask for his/her own safety, I'm all for it.
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well take this from a parent, if there's anything children aren't worrying about its "safety" especially from what they consider is a free day on the couch watching television and being pampered.
"FreedomToons"
I mean, you can scroll through the channel's video titles and make an educated guess where on the scale of right to alt-right they sit, or you can just take a guess without scrolling and save yourself the time.
I think at the core of @jetflag's argument is that the government/medical leadership are not doing enough to convince the people that COVID should be taken seriously. The sociological aspect needs to be considered, not just pure science. In fact, wrong decisions by leadership have caused disasters, like when the CDC told people early on not to wear masks.
Gestures like, say, Trump promoting "MAGA" masks and telling his supporters that real patriots wear masks would have done much more than Fauci worrying people with medical facts every couple of weeks.
At the very least, not antagonizing anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers would have been more beneficial, which is essentially what Denmark did and why they're handling COVID so well.
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Don't bother yourself on my behalf with resident far-left Kohai barking in the distance m8
. I've had him on ignore ever since he firmly demonstrated he's incapable of addressing (or understanding) any argument on its merrit and can afaics only attack the political abstraction of who's saying it, and life on the forum has been considerately more pleasant ever since.
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And yet, weirdly, you still follow up my posts addressing things I've mentioned. Almost as if you have put me on ignore, but are still clicking to reveal my posts anyway. But that would be a very dumb thing to do, so perhaps I'm wrong...
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Ridiculous and orwellian move. especially considering its for 8th graders.. by the time I was 12 i've seen more nudity and horror then anything a grapic holocaust image can provide.
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what I don't get is, If you do indeed have a very christian conservative school going on and his book is part of the curriculum and you don't want to expose kids to specific forms of nudity at that age (which you know, fine) Just sit down with the congregation for an evening and paste some figleaf stickers here and there? and just tell the students that they have to order the book internally? problem solved.
I don't know if, in TN, both public and private schools have to abide by the language arts curriculum (which is where Maus is being removed). If you're at a conservative, Christian school you're more likely paying tuition, i.e at a private school. I imagine those schools have more leeway for what they teach. If the private schools don't want to teach Maus, sure, the government shouldn't force private schools to do so.
From the outrage it sounds like the board's decision is affecting all schools, both public and private. Public schools are not supposed to be religious, so banning Maus there is just wrong.
edit: anyways, the only thing I can do is put my money where my mouth is. For me, that is supporting the author by buying a copy of the book.
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Canada just went full-on USA
If all else, the memes that came out of this are hilarious. Hopefully Trudeau is safe and has enough security to avoid a Jan 6th kind of situation.
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You missed the Norm Macdonald reference there.
That said, I'm having a really crappy January, having some of the worst times of my life, nothing seems to be going well. I'm sensing a classic case of the black dog.