I wanted to check with my friend first before I shared this but here is what happened today at HISD

My friend works in a department with logistical concerns when there is a closure. Right after lunch today, the heads of these depts were called into a meeting and told that next Monday and Tuesday would be no students. It would be used as prep time to go 100% virtual for at least 3 weeks. This was all due to some briefing they had (not sure from who). My friend said there was a board meeting last night and nothing was mentioned about this so everyone was surprised at how out of the blue this happened.

These depts were told to start cancelling orders, deliveries, etc. They were told to start telling their teams to figure out who was essential to be in the office and who could work from home. These depts started scrambling.

Then, around 5:30, word came out that it was off. Apparently the district started talking to other districts in the area and there was so much push back that they changed it back to business as usual on Monday. Now, these depts have to call vendors to uncancel deliveries, etc. Sounds like it is going to be a day-by-day thing and they may send out an alert to parents soon to be prepared for a move to virtual at any time.

Just trying to guess why HISD would shut it down. Maybe it is just due to the ugly stats as of late.

Ags #1 said:

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Shut down everything but the schools. Virtual learning is a living hell

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Amen

aTm2004 said:

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Considering Humble ISD told Dora to eff herself at the start of the year, I'd hope they'd continue to do the same.

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I was at Humble High School on Wednesday the 9th. It was 9am and I was chatting with an administrator about what percent were virtual (I guessed 50% and they said that is about right. Asked about cases, and they said they had 10 positives that day alone (this was at 9am). I asked is that was typical, because my daughter goes to George Ranch High, and they only have one every few days, other than the Greatwood 18th birthday party super spreader event that resulted in 22 positives and the football team having to forfeit the playoffs. They said no, in the fall everything was low.

Wish I could stick find the article but HISD normally has 10-15% of high school students fail at least one class. This fall's first grading period saw over 40% fail at least one class. Usually because they no show virtually or don't turn in assignments. Yet doesn't surprise me HISD would try to shut it down.

How is this impacting HISD's money? If they're still getting the money, they'll just pass the kids at the end of the year citing some unusual circumstances and be done with it. They don't care. It's all about money, power, and which minority group is leading.

I heard Texas schools got an exemption regarding attendance and pay in the fall, but that ended at break. Even a district like fort bend is expecting to lose millions.

Dominique Sachse got the corvid.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/KPRC-anchor-Dominique-Sachse-diagnosed-COVID-19-15855971.php

Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

TarponChaser said:

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Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

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What's the gist of that podcast. It's from a journalist, nod an MD, so just want a sentence or two on the content if you don't mind.

Tabasco said:

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TarponChaser said:

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Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

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What's the gist of that podcast. It's from a journalist, nod an MD, so just want a sentence or two on the content if you don't mind.

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Berenson has been contrarian on COVID coverage from the get go. He has questioned a lot of the wisdom of lockdowns, masks, school closures, heterogeneous risk, etc.

If you got all of your coverage from CNN or local news, you would never see the facts framed as he does. I'm not always a fan of his style, but he has many points about the political nature of the response that are very compelling.

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Tabasco said:

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TarponChaser said:

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Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

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What's the gist of that podcast. It's from a journalist, nod an MD, so just want a sentence or two on the content if you don't mind.

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Berenson has been contrarian on COVID coverage from the get go. He has questioned a lot of the wisdom of lockdowns, masks, school closures, heterogeneous risk, etc.

If you got all of your coverage from CNN or local news, you would never see the facts framed as he does. I'm not always a fan of his style, but he has many points about the political nature of the response that are very compelling.

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Got it. Thanks

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chimpanzee said:

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Tabasco said:

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TarponChaser said:

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Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

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What's the gist of that podcast. It's from a journalist, nod an MD, so just want a sentence or two on the content if you don't mind.

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Berenson has been contrarian on COVID coverage from the get go. He has questioned a lot of the wisdom of lockdowns, masks, school closures, heterogeneous risk, etc.

If you got all of your coverage from CNN or local news, you would never see the facts framed as he does. I'm not always a fan of his style, but he has many points about the political nature of the response that are very compelling.

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Got it. Thanks

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He is active on Twitter and used to write for the NYT, which means the rest of Twitter couldn't immediately call him a Trumpist shill and dismiss him out of hand. I only started in on Twitter at all when I saw a lot of the logical inconsistencies he was writing about and found his feed and a few others.

On a related note Twitter perma-banned another guy, just a random commenter that built up a good following with great rational analysis and presentation of facts that went by "el gato malo". He may have called people idiots and the like, but he was never threatening, nor did he post or link to anything untrue, but they nuked his account all the same, no explanation.

Pro-lockdown, pro-fear posts that are blantantly false and unsupported go unchecked on there. Such is the medium,

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Dominique Sachse got the corvid.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/KPRC-anchor-Dominique-Sachse-diagnosed-COVID-19-15855971.php

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Its wild how celebrities coming down with corvid has become a badge of honor of some sort.

I know exactly zero people (first-hand) in ten-months that have gotten the lung aids, but can rattle off a dozen celebrities that claim to have had corvid or died from it.

chimpanzee said:

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Tabasco said:

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TarponChaser said:

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Some excellent stuff from Rogan to counter a lot of the craziness with some facts: Alex Berenson on Joe Rogan Experience

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What's the gist of that podcast. It's from a journalist, nod an MD, so just want a sentence or two on the content if you don't mind.

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Berenson has been contrarian on COVID coverage from the get go. He has questioned a lot of the wisdom of lockdowns, masks, school closures, heterogeneous risk, etc.

If you got all of your coverage from CNN or local news, you would never see the facts framed as he does. I'm not always a fan of his style, but he has many points about the political nature of the response that are very compelling.

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This is a pretty good summary. I'm about half way through the podcast now and really like the points he's making.

He's looking at it as a journalist rather than an expert. He's looked at the data around the age distribution of cases and deaths, and whether or not the shut downs are warranted. Discussed school closures as well as the initial response to COVD, and how the government is taking the same steps now despite knowing a lot more about it. Talked about the effectiveness of masks (N95 work, others...) and how the only real study that was completed in Norway (IIRC), concluded it was not effective. He also touched on ICU capacity and how CA had temp hospitals set up during the flu season in 2017, yet they didn't shut down.

The one thing they're discussing that I find interesting is about the vaccine. He's gone into the percentages of the effectiveness and compared that to natural immunity, and the incentives to get everyone vaccinated vs. only those most at risk (older population). He stated the drug companies have made billions off of this and were given immunity from the government, thus if there are major side effects, you can't sue. He stated he covered the pharmaceutical companies when he was at the NYT and many of the side effects are public, but some of the major ones are only brought to light during discovery, which there will not be for this vaccine.

He did state all of the info he's gathered is public.

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Jack Klompus said:

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Dominique Sachse got the corvid.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/KPRC-anchor-Dominique-Sachse-diagnosed-COVID-19-15855971.php

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Its wild how celebrities coming down with corvid has become a badge of honor of some sort.

I know exactly zero people (first-hand) in ten-months that have gotten the lung aids, but can rattle off a dozen celebrities that claim to have had corvid or died from it.

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She's going to have a celebratory surgery when she's declared a "COVID Survivor."

Ducks4brkfast said:

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Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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Jack Klompus said:

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Dominique Sachse got the corvid.
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/KPRC-anchor-Dominique-Sachse-diagnosed-COVID-19-15855971.php

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I know exactly zero people (first-hand) in ten-months that have gotten the lung aids

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Wow, really? I'm into the dozens at this point.

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About 1/3 of my neighborhood has had it at this point, all mild cases though