One thing I appreciate from these entertainment interviewers like Rogan and Stern is there ability to ask more probing and diverse questions of their guests. I often find those interviews more informative than a traditional news interview where the questions are scripted to support a particular narrative and the guest is less likely to let their guard down. I often watch a news interview and the interviewer doesn't ask the next obvious question because it doesn't fit the narrative or they can't adjust and ask off script questions, even though the question begs to be asked.
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They must be wrong because @espola said that these restrictions are not affecting kids.Funny how politics and reality changes ones perspective.
For 2 yrs the NY Times has been peddling fear. Many articles about risks to kids without acknowledging that have no risk.
Better late than never...but they should still be held accountable for the fear they spread.
For the past two years, large parts of American society have decided harming children was an unavoidable side effect of Covid-19. And that was probably true in the spring of 2020, when nearly all of society shut down to slow the spread of a deadly and mysterious virus.
But the approach has been less defensible for the past year and a half, as we have learned more about both Covid and the extent of children's suffering from pandemic restrictions.
Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus's spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances. Other interventions, like forcing students to sit apart from their friends at lunch, may also have little benefit.
One reason: Severe versions of Covid, including long Covid, are extremely rare in children. For them, the virus resembles a typical flu. Children face more risk from car rides than Covid.
The widespread availability of vaccines since last spring also raises an ethical question: Should children suffer to protect unvaccinated adults -- who are voluntarily accepting Covid risk for themselves and increasing everybody else's risk, too? Right now, the United States is effectively saying yes.
To be clear, there are some hard decisions and unavoidable trade-offs. Covid can lead to hospitalization or worse for a small percentage of vaccinated adults, especially those who are elderly or immunocompromised, and allowing children to resume normal life could create additional risk. The Omicron surge may well heighten that risk, leaving schools with no attractive options.
For the past two years, however, many communities in the U.S. have not really grappled with the trade-off. They have tried to minimize the spread of Covid -- a worthy goal absent other factors -- rather than minimizing the damage that Covid does to society. They have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults, often without acknowledging the dilemma or assessing which decisions lead to less overall harm.
Given the choices that the country has made, it should not be surprising that children are suffering so much.
No Way to Grow Up (Published 2022)
For the past two years, Americans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults.www.nytimes.com
Yes in some cases those that can still teach, but based on my professional experience most that teach, can't do. But my perspective is more from the business end of things and not the hard sciences.
I said no such thing.
So you are agreeing that the shutting down schools and sports harms children (which includes their mental well being)?
I remember Joe on Fear Factor. Dude is killing FOX, CNN, MSNBC and all the rest combined. I haven't watched the news in over a year. Tel A Vision is not good for you. Look at Espola, The Husler, Dad and all those up in NoCal. They just can;t see the Light. It blows me away how easy it is for them to turn on a fellow American.
LA is full of fear. That is the virus and it's got LA by the mask. It's not a pleasant place to be. The look on folks eyes says it all. Panic and fear
I spoke to my new Producer pal and he says it's a ghoastown. Everyone is either sick, staying home or moving out of the city. I would move it to Texas because people are sick in LA and people are free in Texas. Everyone I know is getting sick in LA. They got the jabs and say, "well, I could be in the hospital or worse, dead. Taking the two shots and booster saved me from ER bro. You better watch it or Omicron will get you and then kill you. Joe said so" I ask when the last time he had the flu and he says, "2019." Go figure.
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No they aren't. I was in Pasadena on Saturday and there was hardly anyone wearing a mask. Oh wait, they were all from Utah....nevermind.LA is full of fear. That is the virus and it's got LA by the mask. It's not a pleasant place to be. The look on folks eyes says it all. Panic and fear
I believe I said that it is too soon to tell. There is no doubt that it is already having noticeable effects on parents.
You are something else old man and how you treat kids is messed up. You really do have it out for the kids. I have a custom millstone just prepared for you.
Warning, you know is here!!
Whoopi Goldberg stunned by testing positive for COVID: 'I've done everything I was supposed to do'
'But that’s the thing about the omicron, you just don’t know where it is'
'But that’s the thing about the omicron, you just don’t know where it is'
GoldenGate
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Ha, ha. Fox News is upset an anti-vaxxer got what she deserved. It's a real shame that Ms. Ernby will never have the chance to lose another state assembly election because, well, she chose freedom (from living). At least she will never have to face her greatest fears in that it wasn't the socialist vaccine that got her, and she'll never be locked up in one of those Nazi anti-vaxxer concentration camps, although I'm sure they're coming now that we've gotten her out of the way.
www.foxnews.com
California Republican's COVID death mocked by pro-vaxxers on social media
Kelly Ernby, a deputy district attorney in Orange County, California, who was opposed to vaccine mandates, died of complications from the coronavirus earlier this week and her death was quickly mocked by vaccine supporters on social media.
www.foxnews.com
GoldenGate
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I wonder if she'll die like Kelly Ernby?
RIP to anyone who dies. We will all die, it's just a matter of when. I am ready when it's my time. Hey now, how bout you? Are you sick too? I feel great Golden Gate and have been wondering about you. I know it's you Espola.....lol! You just have to come after me and my dd and those who have passed away. We all make choices and we all must live with that choice cheater and liar that you have always been. You and your evil twin are nasty!!!
Hüsker Dü
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Did this get posted already?
Scientists doing science stuff.
www.npr.org
Scientists doing science stuff.
A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer
Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi used an oldie-but- goodie technology to devise a vaccine that's easy to make — and relatively cheap. India has already ordered 300 million doses.
www.npr.org
No….your EXACT quote, “No, it’s not.” See post #9864.
Hüsker Dü
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People have gone through changes/adversity before and been fine. Even children, if their parents are helpful and not self-centered.
what-happened
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Imagine the idea of repurposing technology/drugs for a more cost efficient and safer approach to treatment. Craziness..Did this get posted already?
Scientists doing science stuff.
A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer
Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi used an oldie-but- goodie technology to devise a vaccine that's easy to make — and relatively cheap. India has already ordered 300 million doses.