Question: Can institutions of *higher learning*, ya know, LEARN? University of Alabama reports more than 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html
My college days and Facebook friend Toby Roberts made a comment that sent me into a reply that I want to share as a post: Toby: Does the virus not like weddings? Actually, it LOVES weddings. Me: And they are happening, weekend after weekend, all summer, right across the street from me and unavoidably reminding me of the utter senselessness of clinging Continue Reading
I posted yesterday about another wedding about to happen. Well, it did, and it was just like the others: 40-50 people, exhibiting ZERO caution about distancing, or masks, laughing and screaming, singing, indoors for hours, and topping it off with a bride-groom procession between lines of people on both sides, maskless, shoulder to shoulder, out the front door and into Continue Reading
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/21/forced_school_reopenings_amid_pandemic
This is perhaps the scariest aspect of this whole pandemic for me, as I have family members involved in education, and am a lifelong devotee to quality and meaning and means of education. This push to “re-open” education is a carbon copy of the prior craze to “re-open America” and “get back to normal”. We are seeing dire consequences of Continue Reading
Trump Administration again tries to “bully” and retaliate, sending Michael Cohen back to prison from home confinement after he hesitated in signing a condition to his home confinement that he NOT publish his book or speak up about what is in it, or speak negatively about Trump. Federal judge says , in no uncertain terms, SHOVE IT. You cannot do Continue Reading
“We can’t fix the economic damage of the pandemic, without fixing the pandemic” — Rachel Maddow on tonight’s newscast
“Shut it down, start over, do it right.” A letter to our leaders from 150 health experts. https://uspirg.org/resources/usp/shut-it-down-start-over-do-it-right
The “Christian Right” are the modern day Gnostics. They seem to easily adapt their “spirituality” to an ethic and a concept of a Kingdom that is detached from the lives of people where they are, and cling instead to some romanticized, “knowledge/docgtrinal based” system of verbal confession. One must “pose things in the right wording’ in order to be among Continue Reading
Looks like another wedding weekend is happening across the street. Clumps of people (6-7) coming and going, maskless, in and out of the building yesterday, for what would seem to fit the pattern of a rehearsal dinner. I’ll be looking later on to see if the same behavior persists (wedding attenders of the ceremony plus reception, mask-less, singing, celebrating). I Continue Reading
Great 3 minute explanation of Covid-19 and why this is an important hashtag: #DontBeAVector (HT Rebekah Sides)
I saw some pictures of a party , most of them with people in them at distances of over 6 feet AND wearing masks. One picture, at a closer distance (about 3 feet), had a “Masks On” version AND a “No-Masks” version. Do these people think that they can basically say to the virus (“Off the record here, this is Continue Reading
The song that’s been echoing since it was featured in “This Is Us” this past week. Not been easy.