Maximum Carnage Week Game Thread
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Worse than anyone expected? Race, the Throbber and I expected this.hardhat said: -
He got the name Herr Dazzler after stating people who disagreed with him on covid vaccines be denied healthcare by the government. By law.WestlinnDuck said:
Not only on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of science and economics but rooting for the away team and the teacher unions. Phuck working small businesses and students. Anything to wreck the economy and get Trump defeated. They do it again. Oregon's witch doctors at the Oregon Health Authority are already recommending indoor masking as "cases" go up. The dazzler will want 6-month olds to have a a vaxx card or get denied health care unless its a post birth abortion.MikeDamone said:
Sounds like Race, The Throbber, and I were right. Herr Dazzler and JW were on the wrong side of history.WestlinnDuck said:Just a reminder that Newsom shut down the Cali public schools and demanded masking after they re-opened. DeSantis did not. The good news for leftards is that the already high illiteracy rate in Latin America and the rest of the world's sh*t holes has skyrocked. Makes it easier for the American left to "help" them fill out their US presidential ballots. Shooting for 91 million "votes".
https://instapundit.com/
THE ECONOMIST HAS AN “UNEXPECTEDLY” MOMENT: Covid learning loss has been a global disaster.
When covid-19 first began to spread around the world, pausing normal lessons was a forgivable precaution. No one knew how transmissible the virus was in classrooms; how sick youngsters would become; or how likely they would be to infect their grandparents. But disruptions to education lasted long after encouraging answers to these questions emerged.
New data suggest that the damage has been worse than almost anyone expected [emphasis mine — Ed]. Locking kids out of school has prevented many of them from learning how to read properly. Before the pandemic 57% of ten-year-olds in low and middle-income countries could not read a simple story, says the World Bank. That figure may have risen to 70%, it now estimates. The share of ten-year-olds who cannot read in Latin America, probably the worst-affected region, could rocket from around 50% to 80% (see chart 1).
Children who never master the basics will grow up to be less productive and to earn less. McKinsey, a consultancy, estimates that by 2040 education lost to school closures could cause global gdp to be 0.9% lower than it would otherwise have been—an annual loss of $1.6trn. The World Bank thinks the disruption could cost children $21trn in earnings over their lifetimes—a sum equivalent to 17% of global gdp today. That is much more than the $10trn it had estimated in 2020, and also an increase on the $17trn it was predicting last year.
Who on earth could have foreseen this? Flashback: Politico: How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic.
Related:
● Why we must demand that leaders who got COVID wrong admit it and apologize.
—Karol Markowicz, the New York Post, March 6th.
● Speech Therapy Shows the Difficult Tradeoffs of Wearing Masks.
—Atlantic headline, March 2nd.
As Ace of Spades wrote, at the start of a lengthy post on that last headline, “The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from. The early years of development are critical ones. You don’t get those back. These are critical years of development in which children’s brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever. There is no ‘Do Over’ switch on a child’s formative years.” -
He's just doing what's best for the greater good. If the cockroach scum must go then that's a sacrifice he's willing to make.MikeDamone said:
He got the name Herr Dazzler after stating people who disagreed with him on covid vaccines be denied healthcare by the government. By law.WestlinnDuck said:
Not only on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of science and economics but rooting for the away team and the teacher unions. Phuck working small businesses and students. Anything to wreck the economy and get Trump defeated. They do it again. Oregon's witch doctors at the Oregon Health Authority are already recommending indoor masking as "cases" go up. The dazzler will want 6-month olds to have a a vaxx card or get denied health care unless its a post birth abortion.MikeDamone said:
Sounds like Race, The Throbber, and I were right. Herr Dazzler and JW were on the wrong side of history.WestlinnDuck said:Just a reminder that Newsom shut down the Cali public schools and demanded masking after they re-opened. DeSantis did not. The good news for leftards is that the already high illiteracy rate in Latin America and the rest of the world's sh*t holes has skyrocked. Makes it easier for the American left to "help" them fill out their US presidential ballots. Shooting for 91 million "votes".
https://instapundit.com/
THE ECONOMIST HAS AN “UNEXPECTEDLY” MOMENT: Covid learning loss has been a global disaster.
When covid-19 first began to spread around the world, pausing normal lessons was a forgivable precaution. No one knew how transmissible the virus was in classrooms; how sick youngsters would become; or how likely they would be to infect their grandparents. But disruptions to education lasted long after encouraging answers to these questions emerged.
New data suggest that the damage has been worse than almost anyone expected [emphasis mine — Ed]. Locking kids out of school has prevented many of them from learning how to read properly. Before the pandemic 57% of ten-year-olds in low and middle-income countries could not read a simple story, says the World Bank. That figure may have risen to 70%, it now estimates. The share of ten-year-olds who cannot read in Latin America, probably the worst-affected region, could rocket from around 50% to 80% (see chart 1).
Children who never master the basics will grow up to be less productive and to earn less. McKinsey, a consultancy, estimates that by 2040 education lost to school closures could cause global gdp to be 0.9% lower than it would otherwise have been—an annual loss of $1.6trn. The World Bank thinks the disruption could cost children $21trn in earnings over their lifetimes—a sum equivalent to 17% of global gdp today. That is much more than the $10trn it had estimated in 2020, and also an increase on the $17trn it was predicting last year.
Who on earth could have foreseen this? Flashback: Politico: How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic.
Related:
● Why we must demand that leaders who got COVID wrong admit it and apologize.
—Karol Markowicz, the New York Post, March 6th.
● Speech Therapy Shows the Difficult Tradeoffs of Wearing Masks.
—Atlantic headline, March 2nd.
As Ace of Spades wrote, at the start of a lengthy post on that last headline, “The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from. The early years of development are critical ones. You don’t get those back. These are critical years of development in which children’s brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever. There is no ‘Do Over’ switch on a child’s formative years.”
Oddly enough I feel much the the same way. But then again I'm a proud facist -
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Ok BorisPurpleThrobber said: -
And @HHusky the Dazzler says.........................wha?PurpleThrobber said: -
Is there nothing the vaxx cannot do? Best vaccine ever, according to the dazzler, JD, MBA and PhD in virology.
https://instapundit.com/
SO IS GETTING BOOSTED SELFISH BECAUSE IT INCREASES THE RISK TO OTHERS? New study: COVID booster significantly delays end of infection. “A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has demonstrated that people who are triple-vaccinated (boosted) against COVID recover significantly more slowly from COVID infection and remain contagious for longer than people who are not vaccinated at all . . . At five days post-infection, less than 25 percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious, whereas around 70 percent of boosted people were still carrying viable virus particles. For those partially vaccinated, around 50 percent were still contagious at this point. Even more strikingly, at ten days post-infection, one-third of boosted people (31 percent) were found to still be carrying live, culturable virus. By contrast, just six percent of unvaccinated people were still contagious at day 10.” -
Our teacher unions and fed and state medical bureaucracies strike again. Clearly, all about keeping the kids safe. If only we spent more money, the US could undergo an academic miracle.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/school-closures-crushed-our-children.php
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN
Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
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But we were told by a certain sativa enraged poaster that it was all just normal teenage angstWestlinnDuck said:Our teacher unions and fed and state medical bureaucracies strike again. Clearly, all about keeping the kids safe. If only we spent more money, the US could undergo an academic miracle.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/school-closures-crushed-our-children.php
SCHOOL CLOSURES CRUSHED OUR CHILDREN
Our governments’ responses to the Chinese flu epidemic were pretty much a negative image of what should have been done. Instead of protecting the vulnerable, our governments irrationally shut down businesses, churches, and, worst of all, schools. The result was an educational and social disaster, the magnitude of which we have barely begun to understand.
You know it’s bad when the New York Times notices: “362 School Counselors on the Pandemic’s Effect on Children: ‘Anxiety Is Filling Our Kids.’”
Of course, what they are talking about is not the effect of the pandemic, it is the effect of the political response to the pandemic.
American schoolchildren’s learning loss in the pandemic isn’t just in reading and math. It’s also in social and emotional skills — those needed to make and keep friends; participate in group projects; and cope with frustration and other emotions.
In a survey of 362 school counselors nationwide by The New York Times in April, the counselors — licensed educators who teach these skills — described many students as frozen, socially and emotionally, at the age they were when the pandemic started.
“Something that we continuously come back to is that our ninth graders were sixth graders the last time they had a normative, uninterrupted school year,” said Jennifer Fine, a high school counselor in Chicago. “Developmentally, our students have skipped over crucial years of social and emotional development.”
Nearly all the counselors, 94 percent, said their students were showing more signs of anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. Eighty-eight percent said students were having more trouble regulating their emotions. And almost three-quarters said they were having more difficulty solving conflicts with friends.
