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Post by irishpad on Jul 10, 2020 19:32:14 GMT -5
Are you doing the homeschool consulting you thought about doing? What are you planning to do in fall? I know you had assisted a local school district in spring - but don't know if that will continue in fall or not? I’m helping out a few people who want help getting started with homeschooling for the year. This past fall I homeschooled for a surgeon’s family before they moved and then just did tutoring the rest of the year. I haven’t been doing anything for a few months. Haven’t really decided for the coming year. Might homeschool for my cousin because at 9th and 11th they aren’t hard but also their district has a good alternative cyber program so they could just do that... I need to talk to the kids and parents. I’m supposed to tutor math for one homeschooler in fall, 8th... I thought about operating a micro school but I’m just not sure about logistics. I did get 2 new messages today about homeschool help so I think I’ll just keep in and see what happens. I don’t plan on monetizing really, but if I can help out a little. Your area is fortunate to have someone like you with such expertise.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 10, 2020 19:33:23 GMT -5
Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himCallers on President Trump in recent weeks have come to expect what several allies and advisers describe as a “woe-is-me” preamble. The president rants about the deadly coronavirus destroying “the greatest economy,” one he claims to have personally built. He laments the unfair “fake news” media, which he vents never gives him any credit. And he bemoans the “sick, twisted” police officers in Minneapolis, whose killing of an unarmed black man in their custody provoked the nationwide racial justice protests that have confounded the president. Gone, say these advisers and confidants, many speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations, are the usual pleasantries and greetings. Instead, Trump often launches into a monologue placing himself at the center of the nation’s turmoil. The president has cast himself in the starring role of the blameless victim — of a deadly pandemic, of a stalled economy, of deep-seated racial unrest, all of which happened to him rather than the country. Trump put his self-victimization on public display Thursday in response to a Supreme Court ruling rejecting his claim of absolute immunity and permitting a New York prosecutor to see the president’s private and business financial records. Trump reacted with a social media meltdown, writing on Twitter, “PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!” and “POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” He wrote that the decision was “Not fair to this Presidency” and claimed that “Courts in the past have given ’broad deference’. BUT NOT ME!” Trump has always exhibited a healthy ego and his self-victimization tendencies are not a new phenomenon, according to those who have known him over the years. But those characteristics have been especially pronounced this summer, revealing themselves almost daily in everything from private conversations to public tweets as the pandemic continues to upend daily life across America and threaten the president’s political fortunes. Complete article here: Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting him This dude is killing a lot of people, and it won't stop. Even if he is voted out, we will have a Trump hang over and people will keep dying. He’s the gift that keeps on giving
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 10, 2020 19:33:47 GMT -5
Trump has always exhibited a healthy ego and his self-victimization tendencies are not a new phenomenon
He most definitely does not have a healthy ego. His ego is extremely fragile, as with most narcissists. I interpreted the use of healthy in "healthy ego" as a euphemism parallel to "healthy appetite", id est excessively inflated. That, or they were going for ironic.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 10, 2020 19:34:26 GMT -5
Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himCallers on President Trump in recent weeks have come to expect what several allies and advisers describe as a “woe-is-me” preamble. The president rants about the deadly coronavirus destroying “the greatest economy,” one he claims to have personally built. He laments the unfair “fake news” media, which he vents never gives him any credit. And he bemoans the “sick, twisted” police officers in Minneapolis, whose killing of an unarmed black man in their custody provoked the nationwide racial justice protests that have confounded the president. Gone, say these advisers and confidants, many speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations, are the usual pleasantries and greetings. Instead, Trump often launches into a monologue placing himself at the center of the nation’s turmoil. The president has cast himself in the starring role of the blameless victim — of a deadly pandemic, of a stalled economy, of deep-seated racial unrest, all of which happened to him rather than the country. Trump put his self-victimization on public display Thursday in response to a Supreme Court ruling rejecting his claim of absolute immunity and permitting a New York prosecutor to see the president’s private and business financial records. Trump reacted with a social media meltdown, writing on Twitter, “PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT!” and “POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!” He wrote that the decision was “Not fair to this Presidency” and claimed that “Courts in the past have given ’broad deference’. BUT NOT ME!” Trump has always exhibited a healthy ego and his self-victimization tendencies are not a new phenomenon, according to those who have known him over the years. But those characteristics have been especially pronounced this summer, revealing themselves almost daily in everything from private conversations to public tweets as the pandemic continues to upend daily life across America and threaten the president’s political fortunes. Complete article here: Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting him This dude is killing a lot of people, and it won't stop. Even if he is voted out, we will have a Trump hang over and people will keep dying. trump just commuted Roger Stone's prison sentence. Disgusting.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 10, 2020 19:34:59 GMT -5
Flori-duh Governor is spouting crap faster than a cow-packed barn at the moment; his DC pimp was in town, so DeSantistupid had to bend over backwards even more to accommodate His Orangeness. Who came into town for a drug enforcement meeting and not a word about COVID-19. Just keep them fiddles twanging loud enough while it all burns around you, and you won't hear a thing, right?
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Post by oped on Jul 10, 2020 19:44:09 GMT -5
I’m helping out a few people who want help getting started with homeschooling for the year. This past fall I homeschooled for a surgeon’s family before they moved and then just did tutoring the rest of the year. I haven’t been doing anything for a few months. Haven’t really decided for the coming year. Might homeschool for my cousin because at 9th and 11th they aren’t hard but also their district has a good alternative cyber program so they could just do that... I need to talk to the kids and parents. I’m supposed to tutor math for one homeschooler in fall, 8th... I thought about operating a micro school but I’m just not sure about logistics. I did get 2 new messages today about homeschool help so I think I’ll just keep in and see what happens. I don’t plan on monetizing really, but if I can help out a little. Your area is fortunate to have someone like you with such expertise. That's taking it a bit far Mostly I feel lazy lately and like I should be doing something more ... so if i can help a little I try.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Jul 13, 2020 1:45:46 GMT -5
I have been teaching online ......Its a bit hit and miss.... Some kids have worked well and others have done nothing. We UK are going back in September... but it won't resemble anything normal.
The kids will be in part time, they will stay in the same classroom and the teachers will move around.
They'll sit separately, use all their own equipment have staggered breaks. Everything has been designed to be stand alone.... so that if we have to close suddenly, we can just carry on from home.
Teenagers aren't good at socially distancing... and the bus travel in, concerns me. Also, whilst they won't get the virus badly.... as an asthmatic, I potentially could.
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Post by oped on Jul 13, 2020 5:58:10 GMT -5
Devos said only .02 percent of kids die... as if only death is a concern... but even that... accepting potentially 11,000 kids dying?
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Post by Opti on Jul 13, 2020 6:16:27 GMT -5
Devos said only .02 percent of kids die... as if only death is a concern... but even that... accepting potentially 11,000 kids dying? How did you come up with 11,000? Teachers will die at a rate of around 2% or higher if they get it. On the current US stats is the fact that of the cases that are considered resolved, 92% recovered, 8% died.
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Post by oped on Jul 13, 2020 6:23:32 GMT -5
I was using the number Devos seemed to float as ‘acceptable’ times the number of school children in the US... I was only really commenting on her comment, and not even getting into how limited the view was... just that apparently only losing a potential 11k kids is dandy for her.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Jul 13, 2020 6:48:21 GMT -5
There is a report of 3 teachers getting infected, one died.... as they shared a classroom in Arizona "Two other teachers, Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings, were also diagnosed with the virus last month. They both shared a summer classroom with Byrd and said they are still struggling with the effects of COVID-19. All three teachers wore PPE, which included masks and gloves. They also used hand sanitizer and made sure to social distance, but they still ended up getting sick." I'm supposed to be going in to classroom after classroom, x 5 per day........ packed to the rafters with different kids...............and with no PPE How is that going to be safe?
Quite a lot of my colleagues have health conditions,.... diabetes, lung conditions, heart conditions, tumours.......... and were deemed high risk and sent home in March. There needs to be a better plan than this.
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Post by azucena on Jul 13, 2020 11:53:22 GMT -5
This dude is killing a lot of people, and it won't stop. Even if he is voted out, we will have a Trump hang over and people will keep dying. He’s the gift that keeps on giving Dr - or someone else with medical/scientific knowledge - can you please explain why elementary age kids are less susceptible vs teens vs adults? I need it boiled down to simple terms so I can consider the risks for my family with an 8 and 12 yo.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 13, 2020 12:01:41 GMT -5
He’s the gift that keeps on giving Dr - or someone else with medical/scientific knowledge - can you please explain why elementary age kids are less susceptible vs teens vs adults? I need it boiled down to simple terms so I can consider the risks for my family with an 8 and 12 yo. No idea. My guess is it has to do with our immune response as adults. maybe there is some cross reaction with the other coronaviruses. It is a good question, wish I had an answer
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Post by oped on Jul 13, 2020 12:25:19 GMT -5
I’m watching with interest the idea that having live vaccines in the body like mmr might provide some benefit against the more severe inflammation response... but that just a theory and hasn’t been clinically examined yet.
I have NO experience! I just read a lot.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 13, 2020 12:53:41 GMT -5
He’s the gift that keeps on giving Dr - or someone else with medical/scientific knowledge - can you please explain why elementary age kids are less susceptible vs teens vs adults? I need it boiled down to simple terms so I can consider the risks for my family with an 8 and 12 yo. My thoughts are that kids are walking vectors and pick up every respiratory bug that happens to be going around. By the time you get into your 20s, this slows down. Second to this is that Respiratory colds are both rhino viruses and corona viruses, so younger people have a more relevant exposure than adults. I am guessing that children’s immune systems are better ‘primed’ to a covid infection than adults. This is just a wild assed guess....which is as good as any right now.
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Post by swamp on Jul 13, 2020 12:56:30 GMT -5
This dude is killing a lot of people, and it won't stop. Even if he is voted out, we will have a Trump hang over and people will keep dying. He’s the gift that keeps on giving Just like herpes!!
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Post by Bob Ross on Jul 13, 2020 13:01:56 GMT -5
He’s the gift that keeps on giving Just like herpes!! Trumpes!
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 14, 2020 8:28:17 GMT -5
trump said this yesterday in his Whine-a-Thon press conference:
"Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. We're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed."
How exactly are we losing lives by keeping schools and businesses closed to stop the threat of the virus infecting even more people in the U.S.?
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Post by billisonboard on Jul 14, 2020 9:04:20 GMT -5
trump said this yesterday in his Whine-a-Thon press conference: "Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. We're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed." How exactly are we losing lives by keeping schools and businesses closed to stop the threat of the virus infecting even more people in the U.S.? Suicides and domestic abuse is the claim.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 14, 2020 9:22:57 GMT -5
trump said this yesterday in his Whine-a-Thon press conference: "Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. We're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed." How exactly are we losing lives by keeping schools and businesses closed to stop the threat of the virus infecting even more people in the U.S.? Suicides and domestic abuse is the claim. Versus 135,616 deaths from the virus over the past four months. Okay.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 14, 2020 9:31:53 GMT -5
Counting is hard
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 14, 2020 11:00:13 GMT -5
Dr - or someone else with medical/scientific knowledge - can you please explain why elementary age kids are less susceptible vs teens vs adults? I need it boiled down to simple terms so I can consider the risks for my family with an 8 and 12 yo. My thoughts are that kids are walking vectors and pick up every respiratory bug that happens to be going around. By the time you get into your 20s, this slows down. Second to this is that Respiratory colds are both rhino viruses and corona viruses, so younger people have a more relevant exposure than adults. I am guessing that children’s immune systems are better ‘primed’ to a covid infection than adults. This is just a wild assed guess....which is as good as any right now. If kids get everything, why would they suddenly not get this one? I will say that kids seem to process illness quicker. I remember a friend saying "Welcome to Parenthood - your kids bring home a cold and sniffle for 2 days. You catch it from them and are miserable for at least 2 weeks." Certainly, co-morbidity seems to play a big part in this being harmful. I would think kids have less risk factors - less obesity, less diabetes, less heart disease, etc.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 14, 2020 11:05:06 GMT -5
My thoughts are that kids are walking vectors and pick up every respiratory bug that happens to be going around. By the time you get into your 20s, this slows down. Second to this is that Respiratory colds are both rhino viruses and corona viruses, so younger people have a more relevant exposure than adults. I am guessing that children’s immune systems are better ‘primed’ to a covid infection than adults. This is just a wild assed guess....which is as good as any right now. If kids get everything, why would they suddenly not get this one? I will say that kids seem to process illness quicker. I remember a friend saying "Welcome to Parenthood - your kids bring home a cold and sniffle for 2 days. You catch it from them and are miserable for at least 2 weeks." Certainly, co-morbidity seems to play a big part in this being harmful. I would think kids have less risk factors - less obesity, less diabetes, less heart disease, etc. Kids ge this, just another lie by the administration. Now, they get a milder disease. That is no different than the chicken pox, uncomfortable for 98% of kids, and a potentially devastating illness for adults. But not all kids will be unaffected by covid, and purposefully putting them in a situation to get it, without attempting to ameliorate the risk, and carefully weighing risk and benefit is criminal. Nothing new from the administration. Kids immune systems are different than adults, likely reason why we see difference in extent of illness. Why? People have been investigating it for years. It is complicated
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 14, 2020 11:13:16 GMT -5
My thoughts are that kids are walking vectors and pick up every respiratory bug that happens to be going around. By the time you get into your 20s, this slows down. Second to this is that Respiratory colds are both rhino viruses and corona viruses, so younger people have a more relevant exposure than adults. I am guessing that children’s immune systems are better ‘primed’ to a covid infection than adults. This is just a wild assed guess....which is as good as any right now. If kids get everything, why would they suddenly not get this one? I will say that kids seem to process illness quicker. I remember a friend saying "Welcome to Parenthood - your kids bring home a cold and sniffle for 2 days. You catch it from them and are miserable for at least 2 weeks." Certainly, co-morbidity seems to play a big part in this being harmful. I would think kids have less risk factors - less obesity, less diabetes, less heart disease, etc. Because colds are also corona viruses, and their bodies are primed better than adult bodies because they are so frequently sick. Perhaps possible antibodies are cross reacting. After all, cross reacting antibodies was how the vaccine to smallpox was developed. Jenner noted that milk maids rarely got smallpox, but frequently had cow pox lesions on their hands, so he tried vaccinating with cow pox. So cross reacting antibodies have shown that they can be effective in preventing disease. Kids are not clean creatures. They stick their fingers in their mouths and are not near as picky as adults as to cleanliness. That act in itself means that their immune system gets exposed on a regular basis. Your immune system is more than just your blood, your mucosal tissues all have the both specific and non specific immunity. A good chunk of children, nearly 20% are obese.....so I doubt if this is a good chunk of it, or you’d see a bigger segment of kids getting sick in the population. These are speculations, but are based on science. AFAIK, knowing nothing that is all we have.
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Post by emma1420 on Jul 14, 2020 11:16:26 GMT -5
I've decided that we can reopen schools after every single politician who is bitching and moaning about schools reopening is required to teach a classroom of at least 30 kids for at least 3 weeks. And they aren't allowed to wear a mask.
Once every politician (federal, state, local) has done then i think we can have a serious discussion about schools reopening. But, until then their opinions are just a waste of breath. Because while kid's are far less likely to die from the disease or get seriously ill (that we know of right now), their teachers and the school staff are not.
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Post by mmhmm on Jul 14, 2020 11:21:27 GMT -5
trump said this yesterday in his Whine-a-Thon press conference: "Schools should be opened. Kids want to go to school. We're losing a lot of lives by keeping things closed." How exactly are we losing lives by keeping schools and businesses closed to stop the threat of the virus infecting even more people in the U.S.? Umm, I'm pretty sure kids don't die from not getting what they want. That logic is way off!
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jul 14, 2020 11:51:10 GMT -5
I've decided that we can reopen schools after every single politician who is bitching and moaning about schools reopening is required to teach a classroom of at least 30 kids for at least 3 weeks. And they aren't allowed to wear a mask. Once every politician (federal, state, local) has done then i think we can have a serious discussion about schools reopening. But, until then their opinions are just a waste of breath. Because while kid's are far less likely to die from the disease or get seriously ill (that we know of right now), their teachers and the school staff are not. Nah, just require that their children or grandchildren have to go to a public school without precautions. Wonder how many would be willing to do that?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 14, 2020 12:16:03 GMT -5
I've decided that we can reopen schools after every single politician who is bitching and moaning about schools reopening is required to teach a classroom of at least 30 kids for at least 3 weeks. And they aren't allowed to wear a mask. Once every politician (federal, state, local) has done then i think we can have a serious discussion about schools reopening. But, until then their opinions are just a waste of breath. Because while kid's are far less likely to die from the disease or get seriously ill (that we know of right now), their teachers and the school staff are not. Nah, just require that their children or grandchildren have to go to a public school without precautions. Wonder how many would be willing to do that? Trump wouldn’t give a shit.
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