Yesterday, I was talking with someone who had been following debate within my former school district. She mentioned they are struggling with obligations to be open a minimum number of days per year. Not sure if that’s included in regulations, contracts, funding rules, or some combination of the three.
This made me wonder about students who had first-hand experience with defunded districts because of mandatory busing programs during the '70s and '80s.
One tiny thing that’s interesting about this poll “do you wear a mask in the shops” (it’s not yet mandatory here but it will be very soon) is that it allows a “I can’t wear a mask” option.
Out of the 8,000 responses 81 of them self declare as unable to wear a mask. I’ll take those odds, 1 in 800 people not wearing a mask is a trivial number. Currently I see masks in shops in Dublin as being over 3/4 of people but I guess the number is lower elsewhere in the country…
I think that was pretty obvs from the start. GA and FL both have done this in a very naked manner not even trying to hide the fact that the admins in Augusta and Tallahassee are fucking over the working class.
Now, factor in (in Kemp’s case) trying to rope ATL Mayor Lance-Bottoms into a legal imbroglio as a thinly veiled attempt to smear a very possible Biden VP candidate and he gets extra brownie points from his god-emporer. Shameless.
And yet another example of how the American government is screwing the public by burning bridges with allies developing new technology to fight the pandemic…
But yeah, we have been doing a lot of covid tests for college entry. Enough that turn around has gone from 24 hours to 3-4 days. VaTech and JMU are also requiring a negative test within a 10 day period prior to return.
The killer line came when Vallance insisted Sage had recommended an immediate total lockdown on 16 March. A bit late in the day possibly, given the rate of infection in the UK was increasing exponentially and that dozens of other countries had already introduced lockdowns, but still a good week before Boris could be bothered to getting round to doing anything about it. But then jockey club director, Dido Harding – soon to be chief executive of the track and trace system – had wanted the Cheltenham festival to go ahead and it would have been a shame for Carrie Symonds to have had to cancel her baby shower at Chequers. So all in all, it was probably worth the 20,000 extra deaths the week’s delay entailed.
We know this but it doesn’t make it any less infuriating, upsetting, callous, cruel…
We really need some very good musicians with a famous producer and a huge label/distributor to make a top-ten hit out of this.
Or a random person on the internet, with a legion of peeps to make it viral (pun intended).