I repeat that schools are safe because kids seldom have any problems with the disease, as well as not spreading it to others.

Are you familiar with children?

If the schools had some recipe for keeping kids safe, we would be doing great in all our other places using the same rules. We are not! It's the kids! PERIOD!

Except very few other places use the same rules as schools are. Mostly because egotistical adults (both young and old) feel what they perceive their rights to be are more important then keeping their fellow humans safe.

What I hear from Trump's cronies is that they say the masks don't protect them from getting it. That's only partially correct. Most people of reasonable intelligence understand that the mask is to protect others from getting it, not just to protect them from getting it. Let me put it another way. If you sneeze on me and I'm wearing a mask while you aren't, I will still get hit by your spittle. If you are wearing a mask and sneeze, I don't. The mask is more effective keeping the virus within the confines of whoever has it. And since the virus can take up to 10 days to even show itself and affect the host, people who don't wear a mask and feel fine can still EASILY be a carrier and infect others. If people don't get that after...what....10? months? Then they are willfully ignorant which is actually worse then just being plain stupid.

They are still seen as sexual organs and apparently are offensive to strange people. Lord knows a woman breastfeeding needs to be censored by snowflakes and diehard old fogey's to preserve the decency in society....or some other crap like that.

Why? Because a ship was ordered back to the Persian Gulf region (before the scientist was assassinated)? In your own words, why do you think we are screwed?

In what world was Trump listening to science? Has he been proactive in wearing masks? No. Has he actively encouraged his followers to practice social distancing and wearing masks? No. He stood up there and downplayed every bit of this, wanting to create venue's that would encourage massive crowd's against the judgement and advise of the scientific community and his own advisers, just to make himself look good.

Of course schools are as safe as they can be because they did a good job listening to scientists and doctors. They are practicing distancing, mask wearing, and cleaning and notifying parents if there is a member in the county that was verified as having a positive test from Covid. In instances, such as colleges, where people AREN'T practicing the recommendations of qualified Doctor's there have been massive outbreaks. Hospitals are STILL trying to find room for the influx of people.

He is the exact opposite from trained politicians who have perfected the art of lying to the low end peasants who gladly vote for their free stuff at the expense of the working man.

You are absolutely right. He hasn't perfected the art of lying which is why it's so easy to see how much of a liar he is. It is VERY clear that he'll get as much as he can at the expense of the working man.

Pretty much anything can be misused but for the most part I don't see what is so wrong about liking certain aspects of a culture and wanting to imitate it.

You do know that's how science works, right? There was and still is a real fear that children could get it however early on when this was happening they found children less at risk. That doesn't mean kids can't be carriers and since many kids have family members at home who are at high risk there is still a concern. School are busting their behinds trying to make this as safe as possible and they are doing a really good job with it. Colleges have not been doing as well because you can't control college kids the way you can the younger one's.

"This does not mean the risk of contracting the coronavirus is zero. Poor and inconsistent reporting in many parts of the country means that experts do not yet have a full view of the situation, and most schools have been open for only a few weeks. It’s also unclear how closely the incidence of the coronavirus in schools is tied to policies in schools such as mandatory mask-wearing.

Most of the nation’s largest districts opened with fully remote teaching, so the data are largely from smaller communities. And the pandemic may grow worse as flu season and winter approaches.

But the fact that large swaths of the country opened for in-person school while others did not offers the more cautious districts a chance to observe how things have gone elsewhere in charting their next steps."

Trump has consistently downplayed it from the beginning and somewhere around 268,000 Americans have paid the ultimate price. Listen to the science, not some orange buffoon with a sharpie.

Hopefully they are hemp sandals. ;D

I do want to be clear, I really like the idea of homesteading and I fully support the practice and belief that people have when they have a clear understanding of it and try to live that life.

To me, cottagecore is like glamping (glam-camping). The main difference is that it's a lifestyle as opposed to temporary living. People will most likely try cottagecore because it seems almost magical but (and maybe I'm a cynic) once the reality of that lifestyle hits them I doubt they'll keep to it.

That would give the cops a dangerous amount of anonymity for their actions.

As much as I would hope it would, I sincerely doubt it. The President is just one man and there is a lot of tension in this country right now. I think Biden will try to unite us as opposed to the last President who did everything to divide, but ultimately there is a lot wrong with this country and a lot of people are unhappy. I doubt it will ever fully be fixed but I do hope it will improve.

Hmm....I can kind of see that side to it but I still fall under the category that cops should be filmed. If someone wants to hunt down a police person they are going to do it regardless. Filming the police is more beneficial to the public then it is detrimental to officers.