Vaccine

What's dumb about it? Hyperbolic maybe, but not dumb. I'm 100% in favor of school vouchers. My kids went to an elementary school in SDUSD, it was a magnet school (for PE of all things) so kids could choice in. So many kids choiced in from shitty schools that the district board member from the shitty schools complained and got our schools magnet taken away. So instead of stepping up and fixing their shitty schools they punished our school. That's our California public schools system.

I really shouldn't have to explain why school vouchers are a bad idea, but why don't you start here: https://lmgtfy.app/?q=why+are+school+vouchers+bad
 
What burden is it exactly they need to take on? The teachers have been offered vaccines and boosters. So have the parents. Do you believe in vaccination? What's the issue? Why are we punishing kids for adults who refuse to protect themselves (excluding of course those who already have natural immunity)? Or are you still clinging to zero covid?

HAHA...@dad4 is, as the kids would say, is AFK, he is running out of data and any sort of support for his rash thinking. He is like so many in office that just can't admit they were wrong, he's so entrenched in his way of thinking, he can't dig his way out. @dad4 science has always changed throughout history, the science has changed here, don't be a flat earther
 
I really couldn't care less about the adult indoor mask mandate although it's completely frivolous. Come talk to me when children don't have to wear masks in school. I'm not going to sugarcoat it, anyone who thinks children should be wearing masks at school is a stone cold f'ing idiot.

Children don't vote, but their parents do. We've seen the left's true colors during the pandemic. I hope they get completely smoked at midterms. I'm not normally a vengeful person but what most Dem's have done to children is completely inexcusable and I hope they get taken to the woodshed in November.
Within the context of implementing public health policy, child mask wearing has the least impact. Imagine if we spent as much energy into getting seniors boosted.

It's a joke that we've done so much hand wringing over masks in schools (and healthy ulittle covid vaccination). Unfortunately fear and control is a thing... Mabye some people get a kick of being scared.
 
I really shouldn't have to explain why school vouchers are a bad idea, but why don't you start here: https://lmgtfy.app/?q=why+are+school+vouchers+bad
Weird. When I do that the top responses are from websites that have progressive in the name. In fact top was from "progressive.org". When I Google search "why are school vouchers good" I get a variety of sources including independent educational websites. Since you're not willing to articulate your position but just instead unleash the "dumb" ad hominem it leads me to believe you are punch drunk on the blue kool-aid.
 
What burden is it exactly they need to take on? The teachers have been offered vaccines and boosters. So have the parents. Do you believe in vaccination? What's the issue? Why are we punishing kids for adults who refuse to protect themselves (excluding of course those who already have natural immunity)? Or are you still clinging to zero covid?

It seems BTW California and NY plan to do the exact opposite.....

 
Sure. Because the vaccine is not 100% effective. Vaccinated and boosted is more like 85% effective. The other 15% matters.

Like it or not, a lot of teachers are middle aged and overweight. They have a good reason to want to avoid covid.

And, if you want to get rid of all the fat teachers, be prepared to say goodbye to upper division STEM courses for your kid. The 58 year old spherical physics teacher may be the only one left who can teach the AP.
you crack me up. so only fat teachers teach STEM? Back to eradication?

Besides, just boost away, no reason for healthy children to be vaccinated. But wait, even vaccinated children can transmit. So....we have a classroom of healthy children that have to be masked to protect a double jabbed and boosted overweight educator? Yea, that sounds about right. The murica we all want to live in.

This thread just needs to die. Science and logic has left the building, especially for those who are house bound.
 
I think mask restrictions in CA will be done by May 01, and will come back with the next variant- if one manages to grow here.

Masks work just fine if you wear them. Mask mandates that you ignore every time you have friends over? That doesn’t work so well.
which masks work again?
 
HAHA...@dad4 is, as the kids would say, is AFK, he is running out of data and any sort of support for his rash thinking. He is like so many in office that just can't admit they were wrong, he's so entrenched in his way of thinking, he can't dig his way out. @dad4 science has always changed throughout history, the science has changed here, don't be a flat earther
For someone who accuses me of having no data, you didn’t put much data in your post.

Some data for you. Unvaccinated people near me are testing positive at six times the rate of the vaccinated.


If you multiply it out, the 15% of people who are not vaccinated are responsible for over 50% of all transmission. (For SCC)

Ok. Your turn. Do you have any real data, or just trash talk?
 
We agree it is f’ed up. We just don’t agree what it would mean for adults to step up and shoulder their burden.

I don’t see how an unmasked or unvaccinated adult has any right to point fingers about the burdens on kids. There is something they could to to take part of that burden, and they are not doing it.
But if you are vaxxed and boosted, still point fingers at the kids? Who don't need to be vaxxed?

what are we protecting from anymore? Isn't it great how public health directives mean absolutely nothing anymore. Just people diggin in, grasping on to old data to justify something..or maybe holding on to power..or maybe to help quell their fear?
 
Weird. When I do that the top responses are from websites that have progressive in the name. In fact top was from "progressive.org". When I Google search "why are school vouchers good" I get a variety of sources including independent educational websites. Since you're not willing to articulate your position but just instead unleash the "dumb" ad hominem it leads me to believe you are punch drunk on the blue kool-aid.

Nah, minds aren't being changed in this forum....not going to bother. This is a beast of a topic that deserves its own off topic thread. But at least you clicked on the link -- perhaps you even read something. Baby steps.
 
Nah, minds aren't being changed in this forum....not going to bother. This is a beast of a topic that deserves its own off topic thread. But at least you clicked on the link -- perhaps you even read something. Baby steps.
So you can expend the effort to respond with the ad hominem but can't add a sentence or two for the basis for your opinion. Got it. Their are pros and cons to school vouchers. Studies have shown they provide positive benefits in educational improvement, although probably not as significantly as many of us would like. I'm pro-choice in all respects, something the left was until they decided they knew what's best for everyone.
 
So you can expend the effort to respond with the ad hominem but can't add a sentence or two for the basis for your opinion. Got it. Their are pros and cons to school vouchers. Studies have shown they provide positive benefits in educational improvement, although probably not as significantly as many of us would like. I'm pro-choice in all respects, something the left was until they decided they knew what's best for everyone.

Studies?
 
absolutely, if worn correctly. It's challenge for professionals to wear them correctly for long periods of time - won't work for our children. If teachers and others are fearful, they can wear them.
Where do you get the idea that a poorly fitted N95 mask is equivalent to no mask?

I understand that it is an appealing argument. After all, it absolves you of all responsibility. You get to go maskless because you haven’t had the special training.

But it is also completely full of shit, logically. We can do a web search for papers on the effectiveness of N95 masks when worn without training. We both know the papers won’t say “same as no mask.”
 
For someone who accuses me of having no data, you didn’t put much data in your post.

Some data for you. Unvaccinated people near me are testing positive at six times the rate of the vaccinated.


If you multiply it out, the 15% of people who are not vaccinated are responsible for over 50% of all transmission. (For SCC)

Ok. Your turn. Do you have any real data, or just trash talk?

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Mark Twain

You can try to spin the numbers however you want, it doesn't change reality. If 50% of the transmission comes from 15% of the people than how many people are obese since they account for 110% of those hospitalized and 50% of the cases? You can manipulate the numbers however you like, but that doesn't make it truth. More importantly, how accurate is the case count actually? The third testing company is being sued this week for falsifying test and not marking the test with proper names.

Back to the numbers...how you can definitively say that the vaccinated didn't spread it at a given rate if people don't know exactly when or how they contracted the virus?

Reality is in front of you, don't hide behind the numbers when it is clear what is going on

 
Where do you get the idea that a poorly fitted N95 mask is equivalent to no mask?

I understand that it is an appealing argument. After all, it absolves you of all responsibility. You get to go maskless because you haven’t had the special training.

But it is also completely full of shit, logically. We can do a web search for papers on the effectiveness of N95 masks when worn without training. We both know the papers won’t say “same as no mask.”
You know as well as I do that N95s aren't recommended for children and many of the KN95s in children's sizes are counterfeit.

And again, what are we trying to protect here? If the teacher is worried the teacher can wear the N95 and the teacher can get vaxxed.

p.s. it never fails but every time you get backed into a corner you always lash out....
 
Some thoughts.....about the sudden changes...regarding masks, lockdowns, restrictions, etc.
We [CNN "science analysts"] will just repeat what the "conspiracy theorists" said and were banned for the last 2 years.
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How convenient. The science has changed on the incandescently unpopular policy to which lefty politicians and technocrats have been ideologically clinging, just as voter sentiment was hardening in the runup to a national election. Sometimes in politics you just get lucky!


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Weird. "I trust the science" has been the go-to moral response to questioning CDC policy. Now we're told the science can change. Are we still not allowed to question CDC policy?
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It's a simple, basic point -- so basic that even Bill Maher has tumbled on to it.

Whenever these guys are caught being wrong, for the hundredth time, they claim, "Well, science is an inexact science, you know. Science changes and we learn more."

They say that retrospectively, looking backwards, to explain away their errors.

But what do they say in the moment? In the all-important vital present?

In the present, in the Fierce Urgency of Now -- when we could, hypothetically, debate and change policies -- they insist that the science is absolutely settled and foolproof and beyond any question or quibble.

Futhermore, they literally organize smear campaigns with their leftwing media allies to brand anyone disagreeing with the unchangeable and eternal One True Science as "fringe" "conspiracy theorists" spreading baseless "dangerous disinformation."

This "dangerous disinformation" is accused of being of such a profoundly false and wholly baseless nature that it must not only be denounced as if it were blasphemy but driven from the public debate by authoritarian means such as censorship, deplatforming, and imposing professional penalties against those who speak these heresies.

And then a year later they go, "Oh well sure, we got another one wrong, but science is more art than science, yannow?"


So when you ask questions or dispute them, they brand you a conspiracy theorist and lobby media monopolists to censor you as spreading "disinformation."

Then when it turns out they were wrong -- again -- they just shrug and say, "Oh science is always changing and we're always learning more and we're often wrong. Everyone knows that. What, did you think it was magic where we could guarantee success??!!"
 
So you can expend the effort to respond with the ad hominem but can't add a sentence or two for the basis for your opinion. Got it. Their are pros and cons to school vouchers. Studies have shown they provide positive benefits in educational improvement, although probably not as significantly as many of us would like. I'm pro-choice in all respects, something the left was until they decided they knew what's best for everyone.

You've been along here long enough to know how it works. They are on the side of truth and justice, their arguments are selfevident, so when they respond with things like "completely full of shit, logically" they are just putting us in their place. But God help us if we call their arguments or policies authoritarian and suddenly our arguments are completely without merit because we have to resort to ads.
 
You know as well as I do that N95s aren't recommended for children and many of the KN95s in children's sizes are counterfeit.

And again, what are we trying to protect here? If the teacher is worried the teacher can wear the N95 and the teacher can get vaxxed.

p.s. it never fails but every time you get backed into a corner you always lash out....
Adults, Grace. Adults, by skipping masks and vaccines, are shirking their burden.
 
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