The Water Cooler – Who Should Get The COVID-19 Vaccine After Healthcare Workers And Nursing Home Residents?

Ah yes those that state they don’t earn enough to be put at risk but are the first in line at the Starbucks to get their cup of coffee…

My husband is a teacher, and in his sixties. In a survey, at the beginning of the school year, he opted to go back—normally—with no mask, not shields, no plexiglass, etc.

Once he learned of the onerous regulations for going back, he believes his students would be better served by continuing online learning. The whole thing is a disaster.

This is what is planned for hybrid learning: teachers may not leave their desk area, they’re behind plexiglass—because plexiglas is the best way to keep a virus at bay 🙄, teachers may not approach students, students may not leave their desk to approach the teacher for questions, everyone must wear a mask all day long, students must use hand sanitizer going into the classroom, and when they leave the classroom—that means every class they take (hand sanitizer kills good bacteria, too, but who cares), there can be no books—because books can carry the virus. All work must be done on devices like school-provided (correction, taxpayer-provided) Chromebooks.

This isn’t school, and it’s sure not learning. When my husband started teaching decades ago, he taught rigorous AP and Honors courses. Now they’re watered down in the name of equity. There are no prerequisites for taking the classes. Cheating is rampant—and it’s even harder to control online. For this semester’s finals, he’s made six versions of the test. Years ago, a publisher gave him a set of classroom books for free. The students could use the books in school, and not have to lug another heavy book to abs from school each day. The school admin decided to remove the books, where they sat gathering dust in the library. Why, you might ask? Answer: “equity.” Other classes might not have a classroom set of books, so if all can’t have them, none can. This is what schools are. Everyone can take Honors and AP, even if they don’t have the chops—and not everyone does, but no one can do everything—to take the course. Equity doesn’t help students excel, because the ones who can handle the course are dragged down when the course becomes less rigorous. Take away the extra grade point, and students wouldn’t be so apt to take the course.

For the record, my husband isn’t lazy, and he cares about the integrity of the course, and for his students. He’s always worked hard, but he works even harder teaching online. He receives emails every day, all day. There are no “off” hours. I’m not complaining, I’m just clearing up the notion that it would be business as usual in going back to school. And hybrid means that some students return on certain days, while others “attend” by video. And the students aren’t required to be on camera, so who even knows where they are? Don’t even get me started about out-of-control cheating. Or all the students who get extra time on their tests and homework.

Rant over.

Oh boy! Let’s do shots!

I only just started wearing a mask as the weather is wet now and i cant ride my motorcycle everywhere and where it instead of a mask.I was wondering why suddenly Im getting very bad headaches last last even after ive sleft;Oxygen depravation.When Im in a store with a mask Im seeing stars,I can barely breath,and its a proper mask..How many people have wrecked their car and killed themselves or someone else because they passed out it fogged up their glasses?They dont dare tell you the fatalities the masks have caused.Far more harm than good physically,and mentality/spiritually.So many suicides because people just could not live like this anymore.The problem is the masks,not the illness(what illness)Check out New Zealand,they are done with it.