Can’t help but wonder whether a bar could eg let 2-3 people in at a time for 10 minutes each in a way that a 25-student classroom can’t stagger attendance while providing every student with the appropriate number of minutes of instruction per day
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They needed to make alcohol easily available during covid in part because people are addicted to it and they can die without it. But this whole narrative is very strange. The first thing you SHOULD do in dealing with a deadly virus is close schools. I’m sorry but that is a wise course of action.
sep 1, 2025, 4:39 pm • 94 5 • view
Yes, and also it’s possible to continue providing alcohol in ways that are SIGNIFICANTLY safer than literally any possible way to keep schools open and classrooms full Especially if you’re insistent on not taking even the single smallest step to clean the air inside those full classrooms
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 pm • 49 1 • view
That’s another thing that just guts me. Some schools around the country used the time and money to put in the preventative HVAC. It made a huge difference when the kids went back. So much could have been done! If not for the finger-pointing nut cases.
sep 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 73 7 • view
My building did that. Made such a difference when we came back in the fall.
sep 1, 2025, 6:08 pm • 24 2 • view
If only there were a way to make sure all schools were appropriately funded by say, increasing money provided to them at the national level… I wonder if anyone in congress has thought about that before? Well, it’s probably too difficult of a job for our unique country to ever manage. Oh well. /s
sep 2, 2025, 7:10 am • 7 0 • view
In our case, we had a building where the oldest part is over 100 years old, with HVAC from tbe 1960’s. Being closed for several months and extra money earmarked for COVID mitigation …well, even the city couldn’t mess up connecting that A to B.
sep 2, 2025, 1:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Our town could, they spent the money on a new football stadium/baseball fields.
sep 2, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
:/ I’m sorry, that’s so incredibly stupid
sep 2, 2025, 11:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Now there is a horrible mold problem to bad ventilation. But they are super proud our district went back earlier than surrounding districts and offered pool space to swim teams from a nearby county where the pools were closed by the health department. Super proud of it.
sep 2, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
😬 oh my god
sep 2, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Ours, the conservative county commissioners made a huge stink about how the schools should be open and all we needed to do was install better ventilation. Then they took all the money from the fed govt and gave it to the sheriff's dept for more militarization. No ventilation change
sep 3, 2025, 4:13 pm • 2 0 • view
WTF!!! I know a lot of places that did that.
sep 3, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Plenty of cities went with eg “here’s an air purifier for each classroom no we will not enforce usage no we will not be buying new filters” though
sep 2, 2025, 2:52 pm • 3 0 • view
I suspect most cities weren’t facing thousands of dollars to replace HVAC that now the federal govt would pay for :).
sep 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
This was a good use of the money for covid. These things WORK.
sep 2, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 0 • view
That’s really awesome your city did that!
sep 2, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
You can buy booze in grocery stores in most of the country. It's absurd that my SiL had to teach middle schoolers on Zoom while I could go out to have a beer, even if it was outdoor seating only.
sep 1, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Almost as if there is a public health difference between spacex seating outdoors vs crowded seating indoors.
sep 1, 2025, 8:23 pm • 2 0 • view
No, what’s absurd is that you clearly don’t believe your sister in law’s health was worth trying to preserve instead of forcing her to encounter 150 potentially infectious students a day, five days a week
sep 1, 2025, 6:08 pm • 7 0 • view
There were measures that could have been implemented to mitigate risk (like improved HVAC to facilitate better air circulation), which would have made childhood education (which is way more essential than bars) less risky, that weren't. She agrees with me there.
sep 1, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I am with you on the fact that bars should not have been open for in person events; I know that a decent number of bars here actually were able to do carry out with proof of age and ID, and we did a very slow reopening process based on % positivity.
sep 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 5 0 • view
One of my sisters is a teacher, a single mom and covid fucked up her health big time—she has to work and support a whole family on her own STILL. Now she has uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes —she got immediately after covid. Yes, she lives in a red state. NO TIME OFF WITH COVID.
sep 1, 2025, 7:08 pm • 3 0 • view
And then a lot of bars set up tables outside and stuff to create a little distance! Which, again, not gonna work for schools.
sep 1, 2025, 6:03 pm • 4 0 • view
IMO it was as simple as: this building generates tax money, owner donates to campaigns, it stays open. Because money is more important than people.
sep 1, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
No, it was public health, because cutting an alcoholic off cold turkey can kill them A child whose entire cohort simply spends the following school year getting assistance dealing with the trauma of a pandemic while ensuring they are caught up with the grade that was cut short doesn’t die of it
sep 1, 2025, 5:24 pm • 8 0 • view