Indy, just saw that Holcomb caved in and Indiana is under a mask mandate starting on 7/27. You can cut the stupidity in this country with a knife.
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Well....the state school board overruled the governors executive order and we are supposed to tasty school on August 12 as planned. The governor wanted to start after Labor Day. It’s now left up to the individual districts to vote on a start date and what type of school will be happening. Problem: Sedgwick County is going back on lockdown today until AFTER Labor Day. Wichita and my district are Sedgwick County. So....how in the **** do we go back to school if our county is on lockdown? And the most ironic thing- the board meeting was VIRTUAL...
MF! I'm getting a note from my doctor due to my asthma. Yeah, asthma, that's it... Holcomb is a piece of ****.
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My daughter's college just went mostly online. She's a Chem E major and it did NOT translate well to online classes.
And what is going to change in the winter? Probably nothing.
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And what is going to change in the winter? Probably nothing.
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So full disclosure. We learned last night my 21 year old has it - a rapid, less accurate test. But he is sick with bad cold-like symptoms. And like most college students, he's here at home in my house. He went into immediate quarantine in his room.
My younger son (17) and I went today and got 2 tests. The rapid test (it came back negative for us both) and the more accurate test that will take 5-7 days to get notified.
My wife is out of town visiting her elderly parents. I urged her not to go, that it wasn't smart, but she insisted she needed to go. I've urged her to get a rapid test before flying home and putting others at risk. If she is positive, we will react accordingly (get her a hotel for a couple of weeks, have her drive home alone or something).
Yesterday was a terrible, awful day. We also learned that our local school board here in MD decided to
a) Make the first semester of the school year be distance learning only.
b) They immediately cancelled all fall and winter sports.
My 17 year old is a rising senior. The implications are great. He has a solid chance of getting a scholarship to play college basketball. Yet his high school has already cancelled the winter basketball season. His high school basketball career is over. Just like that. Didn't realize he played his last HS game in February. He gets no Senior night and I don't get to walk him out on the court for Senior night. And it will be harder now for him to continue his basketball career in college. To top it off, everyone in his shoes here locally will essentially have been sequestered at home, away from school, for nearly a year. They aren't getting educated (the distance learning is literally awful, they aren't learning), and it is having a damaging affect on all of these kids - mentally, spiritually, and literally it's damaging their futures.
I'm spending about $136,000 to send my oldest to college. The younger, getting a partial or full scholarship, could have saved me all of a large portion of that. So this lockdown is literally costing me potentially 6 figures of after tax money too.
Despite COVID being in my home, despite me being a high risk candidate (severe asthmatic) - I still firmly stand that our responses are wrong. The cure is worse than the virus.
My younger son (17) and I went today and got 2 tests. The rapid test (it came back negative for us both) and the more accurate test that will take 5-7 days to get notified.
My wife is out of town visiting her elderly parents. I urged her not to go, that it wasn't smart, but she insisted she needed to go. I've urged her to get a rapid test before flying home and putting others at risk. If she is positive, we will react accordingly (get her a hotel for a couple of weeks, have her drive home alone or something).
Yesterday was a terrible, awful day. We also learned that our local school board here in MD decided to
a) Make the first semester of the school year be distance learning only.
b) They immediately cancelled all fall and winter sports.
My 17 year old is a rising senior. The implications are great. He has a solid chance of getting a scholarship to play college basketball. Yet his high school has already cancelled the winter basketball season. His high school basketball career is over. Just like that. Didn't realize he played his last HS game in February. He gets no Senior night and I don't get to walk him out on the court for Senior night. And it will be harder now for him to continue his basketball career in college. To top it off, everyone in his shoes here locally will essentially have been sequestered at home, away from school, for nearly a year. They aren't getting educated (the distance learning is literally awful, they aren't learning), and it is having a damaging affect on all of these kids - mentally, spiritually, and literally it's damaging their futures.
I'm spending about $136,000 to send my oldest to college. The younger, getting a partial or full scholarship, could have saved me all of a large portion of that. So this lockdown is literally costing me potentially 6 figures of after tax money too.
Despite COVID being in my home, despite me being a high risk candidate (severe asthmatic) - I still firmly stand that our responses are wrong. The cure is worse than the virus.
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This is just totally ******* wrong. If you look at Worldometer, we're nowhere near #1 in testing, or cases or deaths. Just look at the ******* death-rate. At the end of the day, practically NOBODY dies from the ******* 'Rona. Keep acting like the world is ending all you like. Anyone that can do basic division knows otherwise.
Ridiculous.
Worldwide, 7.8 Billion ******* people.
Worldwide, 623,000 deaths.
Your chance of ******* DYING from the 'Rona is.... .000080
**** OFF.
But wait... the death-pool that is 'Murica!
U.S. Population, 331,113,000
U.S. deaths, 145,689
Your chance of ******* DYING from the 'Murica Rona' is... .00044
Continue ******* OFF.
And please note: the above numbers are only as reliable as your faith in how they report the ******* deaths. I personally believe that many countries, the U.S. definitely included dramatically over-report the number of people dying due to co-morbidity or even due to entirely different reasons as "Covid" deaths. I honestly wouldn't be at all surprised if the actual 'Rona deaths are closer to 1/2 of what is reported at best.
But whatever. Send my your useless cash. I'll take the risk for you.
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Oh that is terrible Tim. Heartbreaking. I'm guessing my son's senior year of football will be cancelled too, he's not a superstar with scholarship potential but he loves it.
I hope your son recovers quick and the rest of you stay healthy. Yes, I agree, we have WAY overreacted to this. To think the things that are being taken away from these kids when their death rates are lower than the flu. It is a crime.
Sorry man, that really sucks.
The sciences require labs, how do you do that online?
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They are going to do very few labs, nursing classes etc. in person and those are the only students allowed to live on campus. She has one lab this semester. She's renting an off campus house so is living there anyway (can't get out of the lease, yay us). but hasn't heard yet whether her lab is one that will be in person.
She had a physics class last semester, they actually sent her some lab materials and she was doing experiments on her bedroom floor lol. It was electricity and magnetism stuff though. Hopefully no chemicals will be sent home!
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Imagine, if you will, that you are interviewing applicants anywhere from 1 to 6 years from now and you see from their applications that they are one of the the 'Rona School Kids.
If you are determined to do the best you can for your company, you simply throw THAT applicant's papers in the circular bin and move on to somebody who actually WAS educated. This will have a very significant long-term impact on all these kids who think 'distance learning' is "******' awesome dude!"
If you are determined to do the best you can for your company, you simply throw THAT applicant's papers in the circular bin and move on to somebody who actually WAS educated. This will have a very significant long-term impact on all these kids who think 'distance learning' is "******' awesome dude!"
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I don't know any who think it's awesome. My daughter is not sure how she's going to do it. It's a very challenging program that relies on discussion, collaboration, office hours, meticulously scheduling and organizing a massive workload. It's terrible. If she didn't have an academic scholarship I might be looking to pull her out for a semester. But I'm pretty sure if she does that she loses the scholarship.
My 21 year old is in the same situation. He wants to take a gap year for many reasons. But he has an academic scholarship. He's inquiring as to whether he would lose it if he does take a gap year. $15,000 scholarship may force him to have a year of college that is essentially awful.
If my kid was in this I’d say the same thing. Get a job, preferably one somewhat in your field. A “low end internship” if you will. I couldn’t imagine paying the ridiculousness of a semester or yr to have it online.
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Unfortunately nobody's hiring. Most of my daughter's friends had their internships cancelled. Mine was one of the lucky few who had hers go remote. My other daughter was on her third interview with a company that then cancelled its internship program. Tons of companies are laying off or have hiring freezes.
It’s all slowing falling down. The shut down has caused so much, but it’s the Actual Spike wave that’s about to hit. The collapse of soo many biz. So sad it didn’t have to get to this.
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All of the big warehouses are hiring. They always are in the summer. The line em up and burn them down to ashes..lol. Seriously though 12-19 bucks an hour with OT,vacation,sick time and expensive insurance benefits. The trade of is it's hot as ****.You will sweat like a ***** in church and move like the place is on fire.They will push you and stick all kinds of dumbass things on you to falter.
But alot of people do it for 600-1000 a week.
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Daughter 2 did it for three weeks lol. Found another job as an attendant at an outdoor ropes course. Less money but she did not enjoy the Amazon environment.
Yes, you can certainly find a job. In terms of internships and career advancement type of jobs for college students, pickings are very slim right now.
The turnover at Amazon warehouses is so high that if you apply online they will hire you sight unseen with no interview.
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I wish I lived closer, not only to join in but to record the part where Trog participates.
But since he's an expert on everything, I bet you he's an expert in Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu
It takes many years to be proficient at both. Actual using it in hand to hand combat is different. Controlling your emotions and relaxing in bad situations takes some doing. Getting hit through sparring is the absolute best preparation you can get for the real thing. You get conditioned to taking blows. Most folks outside of blood sports don't have that developed.
Hence why I do not go to any kind of rallies. I have an extreme dislike for soy boy estrogen ***** and punching them in the throat would be my first thought of action. I just stay home and train until talking time is over.
Thankfully we have an amazing police force and live in an area without commie fucksticks and a local government that wouldn't tolerate them. Why? Because unlike many governments they actually listen and represent us.
Not in a million years would I ever let the police force stand alone here while they are attacked by anarchists.
These people need to go the **** home and go home soon.
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Most drug companies are still open and would love free labor. I’d say have her get a part time whatever for some cash and get some real life work in her field (even if it’s pushing paper crap looks great on resume)
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We'll see. If taking a semester off means losing her scholarship that will cost us 30,000 so that's the main factor.
Plus, I would say "open" doesn't mean "hiring non-college graduates". Even companies that are open are scaling back all unnecessary in-person employees.
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That a big nutt to swallow. Gigidi.
We would always take free labor in an intern. Most kids want paid so it’s hard. I’m surrounded by big pharmaceutical. I think there is like 5 major places in King of Prussia Pa alone. My former boss wife works at one. They would take free help. Again, I doubt it would mount for little knowledge.....just “I worked at x in my field during #chinesevirus time”.
Chinese State Media Claims Coronavirus Is A Tool To ‘Beat’ Trump
China Global Television Network (CGTN) issued a nearly six-minute video entitled “Can COVID-19 beat populism?” in which the Chinese Communist Party-run network leverages the coronavirus as “another straw on the camel’s back to expose [Trump’s] hollow politics.”
In addition to attacking President Trump, the video also went after China-skeptic political leaders such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Britain’s Boris Johnson.
The video confirms Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s insistence that China has leveraged coronavirus to its benefit.
The Mail reports that Sec. Pompeo “used a visit to London to outline a vision for a global coalition to counter the communist regime as he accused its leadership of exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to further its own interests.”
While President Trump’s actions on coronavirus were certainly not “hollow”, moving to suspend travel from China in January, CGTN insisted the virus was a “test” that “most of the populist leaders have failed.”
CGTN is keen on politicizing coronavirus, insisting its silver lining is that “more people are beginning to realize that their populist rhetoric is nothing but empty promises.”
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“Populist leaders like U.S. President Donald Trump are good at whipping up populist sentiment. They look strong. They promise they can “get things done.” They are “experts” at manipulating people’s feelings. But here’s the twist: They are incompetent at solving real threats and problems,” the video added.
The video answers its own question, whether or not coronavirus “can beat populism,” with a resounding yes, and revels in the conclusion.
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Nothing at all to see here, riiiigggghhhttt?
China Global Television Network (CGTN) issued a nearly six-minute video entitled “Can COVID-19 beat populism?” in which the Chinese Communist Party-run network leverages the coronavirus as “another straw on the camel’s back to expose [Trump’s] hollow politics.”
In addition to attacking President Trump, the video also went after China-skeptic political leaders such as Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Britain’s Boris Johnson.
The video confirms Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s insistence that China has leveraged coronavirus to its benefit.
The Mail reports that Sec. Pompeo “used a visit to London to outline a vision for a global coalition to counter the communist regime as he accused its leadership of exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to further its own interests.”
While President Trump’s actions on coronavirus were certainly not “hollow”, moving to suspend travel from China in January, CGTN insisted the virus was a “test” that “most of the populist leaders have failed.”
CGTN is keen on politicizing coronavirus, insisting its silver lining is that “more people are beginning to realize that their populist rhetoric is nothing but empty promises.”
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“Populist leaders like U.S. President Donald Trump are good at whipping up populist sentiment. They look strong. They promise they can “get things done.” They are “experts” at manipulating people’s feelings. But here’s the twist: They are incompetent at solving real threats and problems,” the video added.
The video answers its own question, whether or not coronavirus “can beat populism,” with a resounding yes, and revels in the conclusion.
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Nothing at all to see here, riiiigggghhhttt?
#2020. Trump v China. Let’s goooooo
My step daughter isn’t going back to school this fall. Her scholarship wasn’t renewed. She went to an art school, so none of her classes will transfer over to another school. She is living in our basement office and is working, but it’s not what she wants to do. I don’t know what her future holds but I know art school isn’t in her future. I’m kinda glad the Rona hit because at least she’s only out one year tuition as opposed to 3...hopefully she figures **** out and she uses this Rona vacation to find herself.