| EricHiggin said: Ya trust in general was a problem to begin with. It's near impossible to make meaningful progress if that's where you're starting from. Early on you'd have to be a little more cautious if you aren't sure what's going on exactly. We did know people weren't dropping like flies, so a lockdown didn't make sense, but masks would've been quite a minor ask, and social distancing, a little more so, though still not anywhere near lockdown. You want to be ahead of the game but you also can't go overboard or you'll get what we've gotten now where people can't be bothered. Pretty sure we can force industry to change for war if it's bad enough. Maybe in this case it wasn't deemed a big enough emergency or it's flat out illegal. Then have the Gov subsidize the manufacturing to a degree and have the Gov distribute them as directly as possible. The U.S. incentivized biz I believe. Our education system sucks, even prior to the lockdowns. It doesn't teach much of what should be taught, and more importantly, teaches kids to memorize and repeat instead of to think critically and be creative. We want intelligent humans, not dumb robots, especially in situations like pandemics. Saw this lockdown coming a mile away. So did the people who flooded the stores recently, some hoarding. First lockdown was a little bit before Easter. The rest of the time just restrictions, heavy or light, even Thanksgiving. Now another lockdown right before Christmas. Covid must be the devils work... 28 Days Later. Again. Maybe it's time to give it a watch. |
Fun movie. I just got Tenet in, I'll be giving that a watch soon. Next is not a bad show atm, inspired by Covid-19 no doubt. It's all nonsense, yet I'm running out of Netflix stuff to watch. Currently watching some Japanese show, welcome to borderland, which popped up a couple days ago. (Don't try with English dub, horrible)
To tell you how much the system sucks... One of the kids in my youngest's class is currently stuck in India (father critically ill in hospital). He has to do online learning from there in the middle of the night. Last week the teacher was literally yelling at this kid for a long time for not doing the assignments right (no one can find). We get that you're stressed out as well and there is no help, but this is terrible behavior. It's been getting worse, she went off on the class nearly every day last week (sometimes for hours), glad it's holiday break now. My wife now turns on the camera and stares at her so she'll cut it out knowing an adult is watching. So basically, the online part (mandatory have to be online) is more distracting than useful. My kids hate it.
It wreaks havoc on kids. Best friend of my oldest is now coping with severe depression. His mother (single mother) pushed him back in school, despite being severely immuno comprimised herself, afraid he might do something to himself (he needs to be among other kids). Luckily it helped a bit and he was 'well enough' today to play with my oldest again (online). (He was getting depressed as well since his friend didn't want to talk to anyone anymore)
My kids are also sick of each other, this is going to be a trying 28 days without their separate sleep overs at the grand parents.
Silver lining, they do learn how to figure things out on computers.
As for the early lock down. It was understandable. People weren't dropping like flies here (looking back the daily death toll was higher than it is currently, was in the 60s at the end of April) yet Italy was showing dreadful images of what happens when you take measures too late, and more importantly, how fast it can escalate. Now with social distancing and masks it's moving up much slower at least.
People get bored easily, also a result of sensationalizing everything. The media and advertisers can be thanked for that.
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