The senate is split 50-50 and two of the Democrats consistently vote with Republicans. Quit acting like he isn't trying.
everyone I know who hasn't previously gotten covid, is getting it now. I'm getting multiple texts a day like "oh no this is so bad, what did you do to make it better?" Bitch shut up. You have a small headache and a cough. Take some tylenol, hot tea and go to sleep. You are vaccinated and you got the weak version anyway. You'll be fine. I got rawdogged by the OG covid.
I got to thinking today (tell me if this has been discussed before): What do y'all think the long term effect of Covid/ masks/ lockdowns will be on children? Do y'all think they will develop hangups/ phobias because of it (I'll bet we have a LOT more hypochondriacs in the future)? A gradual increase in crime rate in the next twenty years because kids didn't get enough visual cues due to masking during key developmental times, thus having a lower emotional intelligence? Anything else I can't think of at this time?
If they get weird about having to wear a mask at some point in their past, I’m going to pay some school bully to beat it out of them.
At the beginning of this, I was shocked how many people didn’t know how to properly wash their hands, and do so after appropriate activities. If anything, people will be a lot more conscious of spreading germs, and how to avoid that. I see that as a good thing. But then again *gestures broadly to the anti mask crowd*
I tend to disagree. People will comment on the fact that they haven't had a cold or the flu in so long, and how everything has been so good, but they won't correlate that with mask wearing, social distancing, sanitizer use, hand washing, etc. They will go back to doing things the way they always have, and then make another comment about how the cold or flu season is abnormally bad this year... because they're comparing it to the year they didn't get it.
yeah you’re right. Underestimated how stupid people are. as for us in the schools though, the hand sanitizer stations and the like will certainly stay
I disagree, but I don't know if there's enough data to show the impact yet. I have a good friend who has cochlear implant. It helps him hear, but he still relies on reading lips in person. The masks are troublesome for him. So, I worry about kids with hearing disabilities, and their language development. Also, we talk all the time about how text/email is hard to convey emotion. Picking up visual cues from teachers, like smiles and other facial expressions are important to learning. https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/mandatory-masking-of-school-children-is-a-bad-idea/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...ol-can-impact-a-child-s-development-1.5105832 Again, I'm no expert, and I think it's too early to know what the impacts are. Kids are resilient and learn so fast, if we're done with masking soon, it may not matter.
I think a lot of it will depend on parenting, just like a lot of other life lessons. When it all started, I sat our boys down and explained that it'd been 100 years since this had happened, and things were likely gonna suck for a while. But we'd get through them. Our oldest was a senior in high school, and as you can imagine, all the related festivities were completely decimated. But he and his classmates seemed to roll with the punches, unlike the parents who were having absolute meltdowns on social media. If you ask me the mental health problems will stem from parents projecting their bullshit on to their kids. I work with kids, and honestly, the masks and all that don't seem to bother them. They get it. The adults on the other hand...
So much this. Some else remarked about kids not learning how to read faces because we're all wearing masks. My son who's 2 1/2, has had zero issue reading facial expressions. He knows and clearly indicates he knows when a mask wearer is smiling, frowning, etc. If anything, the masks have made him better at picking up subtle facial expressions.
The prolonged lockdown at the beginning and the continued distance learning will have a far greater effect than masks, and I think it will be devastating to a subset of this young generation. From March 2020 until September 2020, there was a cobbled-together online learning space that varied hugely by geographic area. After Sept of 2020, the portals got more streamlined but that doesn't compensate for what's been lost. You'll have a subset of families who, from Day 1, took initiative and bought every textbook and had a parent sit down daily with the kids and make sure all the courseload got covered. The wealthier families created learning pods with private tutors, so arguably those kids got a better education than they ever would have in the public or the Catholic system. Given the state of things, if I was in the position of these families I would keep this arrangement and have the kids get on some accelerated learning. Then you have families where both parents (if there are two) couldn't get any time off work, or had to lock themselves in a home office and not interact. That subset of children went over a year without cracking a book or truly absorbing whatever the course material was. The remainder are somewhere in the middle - parents who fought the good fight, but could only push things so far and children that can maybe learn some stuff through e-classes but not everything. This cohort will compete with each other for the rest of their lives over university placement, internships, jobs, mates, etc. It's a paradigm shift. I think we'll see something similar to what happened in various counties in the Deep South during the 60s who, when forced by federal mandate to integrate their black and white schools, instead chose to end all public education. It went on for almost four years and resulted in the wealthy families creating their own private school system, the black families of means sent their children away to relatives and the poor blacks just went without education, perpetuating the disadvantages of segregation. My $0.02.
It’s too early to tell what the full impact will be. But thankfully, it’s not too early to hate everyone over it.
There are cultures that routinely wear veils or other face coverings, and plenty of colder climates where people wear scarfs or other warm clothing on the face regularly in the winter. I think masks being an issue is going to be an overblown concern. Kids treating school like a TV show they're ignoring while they do other things is going to have a much bigger impact.