I'm back to work in the public schools in the Covid era and its crazy. I spent hours listening to and reading the new guidelines for operating a schoolhouse with all the appropriate CDC guidelines for behavior. Six feet apart, social distance, wear a mask, keep your temp at 98.6. Teach a class online while monitoring a small group of students in your classroom. And those same kids will stay all day in your class. They'll eat breakfast, work in the morning, eat lunch, and take afternoon classes in the same class. Hey Jack, you're stuck in a room all day and deal with it. Haha. It's not gonna to go well. Mark my word. Although, will it truly be worse than regular school for many kids? For learning, probably not. But all the other skills kids get from schools will start to erode. And everything we're planning for can change on a dime. If we really wanted to save the lives of teachers and kids and viejas an viejos then we would also consider banning beef production, driving cars, and smoking cigarettes. I do love to eat proteins like beef ribs and steaks. Maybe a pork rib and bacon slab too. But I try to bike a lot. And against every instinct of my nicotine addiction, I reject cigarettes. Unless a smoker comes to visit. Opiates kill 130 people a day. What tyrannical power has taken over and shut down businesses in the effort to save those people's lives? None. Cuz most people don't care about drug addicts and poor people.
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