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In HHS dept we’ve been talking about another lockdown across USA for a while. Likely to happen next week or week after. Stay tuned
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Another thing to mention is that the UK has now passed the grim milestone of over 1 million infections. That’s one in 67 of the whole population who have tested positive for the virus.
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Shocked that they are going to take such an extreme measure considering who is in power. But as much of a buffoon Boris plays, he isn’t an actual idiot.
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There are four who are in power, two who were pro-lockdown.
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My son was in remote learning for much of the year and I think it helped him, to be honest. Its less distracting to have your school friends around you all the time.
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I preferred studying alone too - classroom learning was too distracting for me. It also didn’t help that most of the teachers did a really bad job too (Not all, some were awesome).
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$200 a head isn’t even worth the risk. They could have probably charged tens of thousands per head for that kind of information in those circles.
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I’m giving less and less credence to this particular analysis as events roll on.
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One take I’ve read is that Johnson is a skilled political operator in the sense that he knows how to work his way up the party and reach the top, but is useless at governing.
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The school thing isn’t quite so simple IMHO. Universities and high schools - by all means go for distance learning, the impact isn’t going to be so huge. But for primary schools there are significant negatives - working parents can’t effectively go back to work, whether in person or from home, because you can’t supervise a young child and also do your job at the same time. This disproportionately affects women who are more likely to be working part time, in at-risk jobs, or providing a disproportionate amount of the childcare. Also you massively widen the gap between kids who are doing well in school and those who are struggling. Children with engaged parents are more likely to be ahead in the first place, and will get more support to do school work at home. Children whose parents don’t value school won’t encourage them to keep doing it at home, so they’ll fall further behind. Same with kids from socio-economically deprived backgrounds, who are less likely to have decent access to the internet outside of their parents’ phones. Not to mention the mental health effect of keeping young children unsocialised for months at a time.
I’m absolutely not in favour of 99% of what Boris has ever done, but keeping primary schools open as long as possible is one of the things I’d be aiming for.
I’m suspicious of the recent anti-Sunak press - He’s the most credible threat to the Johnson-Gove-Cummings cabal - and far more popular than either of them.
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Of course. Mandate away. My point is that individuals need to decide to comply. You are preaching to the choir.
Small plus, a couple of new Brewdog beers with interesting names
maybe im just being pendantic because it’s also fair to say government ( and ngo types ) can educate people and encourage certain behaviors beyond simply whether something is permissible or not.
in the us, the president is clearly encouraging people to ignore the cdc and local government mandates. if he set a good example ( probably impossible for him, granted ) then his supporters would have followed suit.
i don’t know so much about over the pond, but it seems the response has been scattered and inconsistent. letting people travel to and from mainland europe after the first lockdown was a signal that “all was well” - when clearly it wasn’t.
Oh, great.
Now we have British sovereign citizen types trying to use the Magna Carta to claim that the lockdown doesn’t apply to them.
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And …Johnson has been accused by his party of “giving in” to science. Torys are crazy.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-boris-johnson-accused-ex-131500991.html
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Iain Duncan Smith said
I don’t think IDS has said anything worth listening to ever. He has caused so much harm to disabled people that I will have a party when he dies.
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