"The iron found in the asteroid 16 Psyche alone is worth an estimated $10 quintillion, and according to NASA, if we could extract all of the minerals in the asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the total value would be enough to give every person on Earth about $100 billion."Photo via.
TYWKIWDBI loves libraries. So we'll share this PSA for a Texas public library, found by John Farrier and posted at Neatorama.
It may take a while. In a local news story from California, a woman visits the local UPS office looking for a delayed package. She was directed to an outdoor lot and told to look "in the pile."
Some of those packages had been sitting there for weeks.
Remember this story when you encounter news about efforts to hobble or dismantle the U.S. Postal System in favor of "more efficient" private enterprise.
"the CDC recommends re-opening schools"
The link you provide actually doesn't say so. It explains why schools are good for kids, but nobody is disputing that.
It also says:
The best available evidence from countries that have opened schools indicates that COVID-19 poses low risks to school-aged children, at least in areas with low community transmission, and suggests that children are unlikely to be major drivers of the spread of the virus.
Where the key phrase is: in areas with low community transmission, which is a condition met in few communities in the US at the moment. the document fails to point this out.
And it concludes with the obvious statement: Reopening schools creates opportunity to invest in the education which is also a statement nobody argues about.
In conclusion, the document discussed the absolutely uncontroversial point that reopening schools is good for kids. It shuffles the necessary condition for reopening school safely to a subordinate phrase, and glosses over the fact that few communities in the US meet that condition.
It's a document carefully written to appear to be saying the opposite of what it actually says.
"My wife is a teacher here in Texas for a large high school. She showed me the new handbook for teachers this year as they plan on bringing kids into the classroom and it’s honestly idiotic. Teachers are now responsible for purchasing all disinfecting agents, having extra masks for kids if they lose theirs/ break them. They have to buy their own temperature guns and check the temp of every child that walks into their class in every period. They’ll be live streaming (?) and are going to be monitored to make sure they are disinfecting surfaces every 15 minutes."The hygiene theater is the cherry on the cake.
So will kids be required to stay 6 feet apart?
There’s no way you can do that. The classrooms are too small. There are like 25 kids in a class. And the other thing is, we’re in a low-income area where parents are working essential jobs. The parents don’t have college degrees and they’re working minimum wage or slightly above that, and they get penalized if they stay home with a sick kid. So it is very common for kids to come to school sick in a normal year.
If a kid came into your classroom sick, are you empowered to say, “Come back when you’re feeling better”?
No, I would have no power. I would send them to the office and if the nurse was in the building—and that’s another thing: We have two nurses in our school district for 2,400 kids in five buildings. And I’m sure there are no funds to hire any more.
"Donald Trump was loudly cheered by guests at one of his golf clubs when he told the media they were not required to wear face masks because they were attending a “political event”.A reporter asked why this event in New Jersey wasn't following the state guidelines for disease prevention...
“Because it’s a political activity – they have exceptions for political activity. And it’s also a peaceful protest,” the president said, as the crowd stopped booing the questioner and began cheering Mr Trump’s response.
“You have an exclusion. The law says peaceful protest or political activity. You could call this a political activity but I call it a peaceful protest, because they heard you were coming.”
He added: “And they know the news is fake. They understand it better than anybody.”In fact, the state guidelines make exception only for health reasons, children under age 2, and high-energy sports.
It is put on display in Russian most prominent galleries “Tretiakovka” so anyone can check it there by themselves. It shows a scene from a study process in a village school back then. There is a teacher and a bunch of children. Then all attention goes to the blackboard: It has some task for the kids that seem to puzzle them, but that’s just a temporary confusion. They all look to be ready for the challenge. The name of this art masterpiece is something like “Oral maths test in village school”...I can't vouch for any of the above, but the Tretyakov Gallery has an immense collection of Russian fine arts, and I see no reason for the painting not to be valid.
"During a Friday evening press conference at his Bedminster golf course, the esteemed President Donald J. Trump finally announced a momentous step in the sweeping healthcare reform plan he's been promising for years:
"Over the next two weeks I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all companies. That's a big thing. I've always been very strongly in favor. We have to cover pre-existing conditions so we will be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all of its customers. This has never been done before."
The decade-old Affordable Care Act that already did this was not available for comment."From the POTUS who said "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." Text from BoingBoing.
