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"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
This makes no sense.
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What?
I’m making the perfectly rational point that there are serious and severe downside risks to lockdowns. Ones that are being blithely dismissed by the educated and powerful in this country. Lockdowns should be absolute last-ditch from now on, not first line of defense. They are incredibly harmful (particularly in America with a totally non-responsive federal government).
Last edited by Falls City Beer; 11-26-2020 at 04:37 PM.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
757690 (11-26-2020)
Dismissing kids’ anxiety and learning loss (among all the other myriad negative effects of lockdowns) as collateral damage says a lot about your position. You guys already dismiss hysteresis and long-term unemployment. I would bet anything you’d have absolutely zero problem with a China-like lockdown as long as you remained employed.
I’m not dismissing it. I made clear we need to get kids back into classes. I pointed out how dumb the recent NYC school closing is. I made clear I think some damage is being done.
I’m just arguing against your false claim that children are not more resilient than adults.
Hoping to change my username to 75769023
Hoping to change my username to 75769023
The solution to get kids in school over summer vacations...y'know...for their own good...is something you need to work on, not me. You're the one claiming major long-term negative impact to those not attending school in-person during the pandemic months.
So grab a picket. Write "Cancel Summer Vacations!! FOR THE KIDS!!" and plant yourself in front of a school board meeting. Make some phone calls. Talk to your local congressman about authoring a bill to raise taxes to pay for summer classes. Bring it up at your next city council meeting. You're allegedly all about social change, so throw your weight into it and prove it.
After all, it's for the kids, right?
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
Look you came up with a deeply stupid comparison and thought you had me in a zinger. But you didn’t. You’re making no sense. Stop digging.
No one on earth is saying Keep kids in school all 12 months or they’ll die. We’re saying Don’t destroy all human connection. We’re primates; we develop socially. That’s what we’re saying.
Last edited by Falls City Beer; 11-26-2020 at 07:57 PM.
Rojo (11-27-2020)
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
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