What impact has the corona virus on you?

Time to end the public school system.

Time to end the whole COVID-19 fear mongering.

Imo, it will never end, there will always be a virus to scare everyone with and keep us in some sort of lockdown.

Black Rider wrote:

Imo, it will never end, there will always be a virus to scare everyone with and keep us in some sort of lockdown.

Some of the climate change people have actually said that we need a virus and lockdown every two years to save the planet.  What a bunch of morons.  While no one likes death or wants to volunteer to die, if the planet needs saving, the Lord will send pestilence, war, or something else to thin out the herd.

Hopefully starting with these leftist collectivist pinkos who view it as their *divine* mandate to incarcerate the rest of us in their sheltered Utopia.

topshot rhit wrote:

Jen5 wrote:

topshot rhit wrote:

Here is a chuckle for you:

School system wrote:

Band students will be required to wear a medical mask with a slit in it that their mouthpiece can fit through during band class. The school is providing these masks. The expectation is that all students in band classes are now masked, and students must comply with this new procedure for their safety, as well as the safety of everyone else.

THIS can't be true. Surely it's fake news? Tell me this is fake news topshot.

I wish, but it's a direct quote from the email sent to parents.

Our school system is not this wacky.  Our band rooms tend to be really large, so they just moved the chairs farther apart and went for it.  It works. We have had a few kids in our schools on quarantine for exposure at home, but we have not had a single student with COVID.  Teachers, on the other hand, have had the virus.

Normaniac wrote:

Time to end the public school system.

I disagree.  We still need the public school system as the private sector would be too costly for most people.  The public school system just needs a major overhaul with fewer leftist-extremists in charge of it.

Public school here in Washington sent my 6 year-old grandson home from kindergarten because he said he had a headache.  The school told his mom (my daughter) that he would need to quarantine from school for 2 weeks unless they could produce a negative Covid test for him.
No other symptoms at all, just a headache.  So my daughter said "fine" and got him a Covid test.  Of course he was negative.  Should be going back to school today.

Staybrite wrote:

Public school here in Washington sent my 6 year-old grandson home from kindergarten because he said he had a headache.  The school told his mom (my daughter) that he would need to quarantine from school for 2 weeks unless they could produce a negative Covid test for him.
No other symptoms at all, just a headache.  So my daughter said "fine" and got him a Covid test.  Of course he was negative.  Should be going back to school today.

Seriously?  Unless a student is running a temperature with that headache, my school system is sending them to class.

education is the role of parents

crucifyd wrote:

education is the role of parents

In a time when most working class families can't make ends meet with both of them working, I doubt that most parents have the time to devote to teaching their children.  If they aren't college graduates themselves, they may not feel like they could effectively teach their kids.  I never took higher math in high school and didn't need it in seminary.  How would I even remotely think of teaching algebra or calculus to my kids (if I had any)?

I believe that having a school with teachers is fine.  What needs to change is parents' involvement with the schools, selection of curriculum, etc.  Parents need to be aware of what their kids are learning at school and double check their students to ensure that assignments are done on time.  Parents also need to learn to discipline their kids and stop expecting the schools to teach them morals and then sue when an administrator does try to discipline.  The system is always set to fail when parents stop being involved in their children's education like we see so many times nowadays.

crucifyd wrote:

education is the role of parents

True a long time ago when kids took over the family farm or business and true in the general sense of basic life skills, but along with Chris' comment we have a HUGE number of parents in the US that can't even parent so no chance they are going to teach their kids. The school is a babysitter.

alldatndensum wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Public school here in Washington sent my 6 year-old grandson home from kindergarten because he said he had a headache.  The school told his mom (my daughter) that he would need to quarantine from school for 2 weeks unless they could produce a negative Covid test for him.
No other symptoms at all, just a headache.  So my daughter said "fine" and got him a Covid test.  Of course he was negative.  Should be going back to school today.

Seriously?  Unless a student is running a temperature with that headache, my school system is sending them to class.

I thought it was a little ridiculous that a simple "headache" would be enough to send a kid into quarantine.  
I totally agree with the fever thing.  Heck even before the Corona virus kids would get sent home if they had a fever.  I could also understand if he had a headache and any other symptom.  But not just a headache.

As the kids go back to school, my art class is over.  Here's my final piece! (It's a chicken)

Fundy wrote:

As the kids go back to school, my art class is over.  Here's my final piece! (It's a chicken)

That's a funky lookin' chicken.  At least I think it might be.

Xid wrote:

Fundy wrote:

As the kids go back to school, my art class is over.  Here's my final piece! (It's a chicken)

That's a funky lookin' chicken.  At least I think it might be.

I don't see anything.  Am I missing something?

I don't see anything either.  That's the joke.

Another swing and a miss for me.

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Not sure what happened there.  Anyway, here it is, sideways!

A mutated chicken apparently. Or a chicken after Darwin's heart.

Our county mask mandate was allowed to expire last night.  Oh, businesses still have the ability to require them as they would you wearing shoes and a shirt.  We went out for breakfast and about 1/3 of people were wearing them.  It was so nice to walk in confidently with no face diaper or shield!

On Friday, I will get my second shot.

I signed us up for our shots. The age is now down to 50 but I am about 3-4 weeks shy of my 50th. Either way I signed up. Would really like to get the J&J shot so I can be one & done. 

They will text us when it's available but since me wife just turned 50 she may be able to get it before me.

My wife is thinking about getting the J&J shot.  The school system offered us the Pfizer one, so I am committed to the two shot deal.

To be honest, I'm done the the corona.
It's one year ago now.

We are in a complete lock down since December 15th.
Store are closed, except groceries and other stors for food, medications.
The restaurants are closed since October.

The advice is to invite only one guest in your house a day.
What to do with the partners of my kids?

The people wo get corona here are each day more and more.
Will the C. Misery never stop?

They started to give the people vaccines since the beginning of January.

I've gotten an inviation to get a vaccine this week.

Europe seems to be having a third wave now so suspect the US won't be too far behind. At least increased immunizations should help keep it lower now though newer variants could throw a wrench in that.

It will never be over, there are always variants, Covid 19 was a variant. I'd be wary of this vaccine, I don't think we know enough about it.