A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org
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Florida politics/fascism
I'd like to add, upon a little further thought, too, that while liberal areas in the cities might be upset about these education issues, the vast majority of the people in the rest of the state love it. There's no large amounts of people to protest it in our county. It's not even "Republicans" who show up to the school boards. It's *all* QAnon and QAnon adjacent.
I'll wager that 70% of people locally love all of this and once you find the other 30% you'll find that most of them don't have kids and don't really care.
Florida politics/fascism
I can tell you in our area the school board members are all terrified. We had just two seats up in the last election cycle and one of the two decided to not run. The other one is a family friend and she skips meetings often because of threats against her. They've all received death threats. The people who show up to our local meetings are terrifying, honestly.
Throw in DeSantis threatening teachers with felonies and it's a system being held hostage right now.
@neroden @perpetualmystic @jik
Hadn't seen that mask. Now I'm thinking I should have one, just in case. What a world we live in.
@neroden @perpetualmystic @jik
I believe, based on this part, that it's about facial recognition?
"Clear face masks for witnesses and jurors: If a witness or a juror chooses to wear a face mask, the presiding judge may require that the witness or juror wear a clear face mask. If the presiding judge requires that a witness or juror wear a clear face mask based on the witness's or juror's choice to wear a face mask, a clear face mask will be provided to the witness or juror."
@perpetualmystic @neroden @jik
You are correct! So this spurred me to dig into it again and apparently they did change their minds on this last year.
I take back that there are still no masks allowed.
The current rules state that you must take them off while passing through security at the entrance, but you may wear a mask inside once you've cleared security.
@aintist @jeffgilchrist @linseymarr
Good on you for trying. I haven't quite broken through yet, but, the Superintendent here could not have been less interested in my 2020 attempts to discuss viruses with him. However, I have made some headway and received some interest when pressing ventilation as a way to boost test scores with him and the school board. Nothing's happened on the ground yet, but, they're not just ignoring me.
One bonus point to consider. At least here they're getting bombarded with people telling them that masks damage children's brains due to high CO2. One school board member immediately e-mailed me back to discuss this as a way to placate the anti-mask crowd while doing something to help.
This is one of my pandemic fears. I was called for jury duty in early 2020 and eventually it was cancelled when government buildings shut down. I got another notice a few months back and this time it specifically said in writing "no masks allowed inside." While I was trying to decide if I was better off ditching it or risking the exposure, thankfully my number wasn't called to go in.
Given that they have stuck with no masks allowed inside the building at all I'm honestly not sure what I'd do if I were called in at this point. I'm quite sure I couldn't be an effective juror under the circumstances, but I don't think there's any way to communicate that without spending the day in a small room with a bunch of unmasked, unvaccinated people.
I love that we're talking about this, but, I've come to a realization over the last year or two in talking to my own local school district about this.
They don't care about viruses. They have people telling them not to care about it and nothing you or I can say is going to change that opinion.
What *do* they care about? Two things. Butts in seats and testing data.
What can better ventilation do? Increase attendance and increase cognitive decision making.
I've become convinced that we all need to sell this to schools as an attendance and testing scores issue and stop trying to fight them on the virus front.
Families are complicated, aren't they? I don't know for sure, either, but, in our case I lean towards the fact that they showed they don't *really* care about their grandkids if going to the grocery store when they could easily afford delivery is a dealbreaker for them. Like you said, they made that choice years back now. Thankfully my wife was aware enough to tell me straight up front in 2020 that we couldn't trust them to tell us the truth about their exposures and she took control of the situation with her family.
The running theme that I've noticed posting a few "my life in a pandemic" type posts is that there's a lot more people out there than you'd suspect who, literally, will not change anything in their lives, particularly if it's even slightly inconvenient. COVID, climate, etc. it doesn't really matter how big or small it is, and there's always going to be "leaders" and peers who encourage them along that path, too.
Blocking's better for your health. I will always give one honest attempt at COVID truth to someone who seems even mildly receptive. If that's rejected then so be it. No need to carry on beyond that.
@porcelainkitty3218@mastodon.social
It was made clear to my wife out one day at the grocery store in FL, by a policeman, that our county's police considered mask wearing to be the same as hiding your identity in order to commit a criminal act.
It does jibe, though, because as I said "Some mechanisms are worse than others" so therefore you can assume that I believe this one has particularly bad implications for everyone out there getting COVID.
There's lots of doctors on Mastodon doing a much better job discussing the implications of this article now than I could, so I'll leave it there.
Who's refusing to believe the existence of corpses cripples and contagion? Not me. Not Dr Leonardi.
I think you're wildly missing the point here. Without a mechanism you can't solve it. Some mechanisms are worse than others.
Live SARS across your body, replicating, was not always the only explanation. In fact, I will still argue that there's multiple causes and this is just one.
Yikes! Tremendous parenting keeping that kid safe.
My in-laws, thankfully, gave up thinking they could see our kids while minimizing a pandemic years ago. They don't even try anymore.
Yeah, once it reached the levels this winter that Jerome Powell's talking about it you know that business owners are concerned.
You're not wrong at all. We need to control it both at work and at home in the end.
I might as well say this every day, but, we're just so far away from even beginning the process of fixing this.
Our health messaging sucks, proven yet again.
They went out last night, maskless, "but outside for most of the time" so, therefore, obviously safe.
Today her and her husband decided to stay 6' away from each other because that guarantees he won't get it. Yes, they're hanging out together in the same room, but staying 6' apart.
It's been a while since someone I knew well shared all of their thoughts regarding COVID and it just baffles me how this is what people believe, but it goes to show we're probably never getting out of this mess. Plan accordingly in your life.
Hang in there as best you can. I worry about my dad and his brain fog, and I knew that unintentional injury deaths were up, but I didn't realize that it was as extreme as it was until I read this paper this morning:
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(22)00431-7/fulltext
"...the relative increase in rate ratio from 2019 to 2020 was greatest for unintentional injury (24.8%; from 3.41 [95% CI=3.23, 3.60] to 4.26 [95% CI=3.99, 4.53])."
Literally anything that shows that the government doesn't work is a good thing for the GOP. Full hospitals, failed public health, failure to pay debts, etc. It doesn't matter if that's even just being corrupt themselves, it's just further "proof" that it doesn't work.
If only everyone had the maturity and ability to deal with change of a 9yo.
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