Why is it always school board meetings that bring out the crazies in the US?
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It’s the case hospitalization rate- in other words, the chance that someone in that age group who tests positive will be hospitalized.
Ok, obviously this is a single study, yet to be proven as a useful therapy in clinical settings, etc., but I am THERE for the idea of llamas saving us!
Maybe rather than draw a bunch of their blood for the antibodies we can start by just giving patients some good llama hugging therapy? Llamas are the best.
Edit: per the article the antibodies of Winter, the heroic llama, can now be reproduced in the lab. So no more blood necessary! Still want to hug her though.
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Thoughts, prayers, and a well-secured middle C.
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It’s really any local or county meetings like that. SNL often makes fun of small city or county board meetings (for regular local governance). It’s in part because it’s easy to get your 2 minutes to talk about whatever is concerning you.
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“They (camps) happened in Nazi Germany, but they can happen here, and they can be disguised by calling them something else…”
Ummm, like an Internment camp you fucking idiot? (Her, not you!)
The applause at the end makes me want to cry. So much willful ignorance.
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Meanwhile, in one of the poorest counties in my area, this is what the kids are dealing with:
Images sent in by parents showed students received carrots, bread, and peanut butter as a part of Monday’s lunch in a plastic bag.
The phrasing makes it sound better than it was. “Lunch” consisted of 4 carrot sticks, 1 piece of bread and a small cup of peanut butter. That was the entirety of the meal. In a county where there is a high level of dependence on school lunches for adequate nutrition. But sure, let’s get them back into school! “If they are going to die, best be about it then.”
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IMO: Community theatre is underfunded.
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ah. right. that makes so much sense!
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okay, i see that now, and that makes sense.
that rate in the graph is for people aged 0-20. so the hospitalization rate is going to be less because of vaccines. especially because that seems to be england? where much higher percentages of people are vaccinated than here in the states.
if ( and elsewhere ive talked about not letting scientific hubris lead to irresponsible and unsafe behavior ) that 1/300 number were correct ( and it’s probably low, re vaccines ) it means at least one and maybe several kids in each elementary school are headed to the hospital for intensive care if they get infected.
so absolute best case scenario, it means most parents won’t have their own kid being ill enough to be hospitalized. but they will know some family who has has had that happen.
that doesn’t seem great. better is making the adults get vaccinated, and mandating masks and social distancing to try to keep kids from getting infected until they too can get vaccinated.
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Latest here is that as we are facing having our medical personnel decimated by covid, both Sentara (local hospital corp) and UVA (my employer) are now requiring vaccination or termination. And there is already shrieking. It was just announced today, I suspect the next 24 hours will be interesting.
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First I’ve heard of an organization requiring weekly testing for everyone, including the vaccinated.
Do any healthcare providers currently require this? If it makes sense anywhere you’d thing that would be it.
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On the rare occasion I’ve attended a local township meeting to speak, you are required to give your name and address. They do not allow anyone to speak from outside the township unless they are a property owner or business owner in the township. In other words if you don’t own property or a business why are you even here?
Same should apply to school board meetings.
Every time I watch these school board meetings I wonder why they are allowing people that have no kids in the school district or don’t even live in the district.
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Third dose? This guy laughed and said “Hold my beer…”
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Not here, at least.
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Wait, what? Renters do not have a voice? That’s particularly troubling.
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