SEC + Ohio State announce they'll bring athletes back on campus by June 8th
https://www.secsports.com/article/29209803/sec-permit-voluntary-person-athletics-activities
This should go without saying, but we need to get our guys back in the gym by June 8th at the latest or we will fall even farther behind. Let's play football.
The primary issue is that what she is doing is really, really fucking with children right now. Kids are regressing educationally, developmentally, god forbid you have a child with special needs or you are completely screwed. There are certain parents of kids with autism and other developmental and cognitive disabilities that won’t get their kids back from this. There isn’t treatment available, occupational therapy, cognitive therapy. It is starting to become pretty cruel.
Think you're being a little dramatic there. Kids would be starting summer break right about now.
Think what you want.
Well if there's data out there showing that kids are being irreparably damaged from a development standpoint then I'm all for looking at it. But it's 3 months off of school and kids have been getting homeschooling and tutoring.
This whole thing sucks, I get it. But really extending the stay at home order is just their way of easing the restrictions bit by bit.
Your point is absurd.
Sure kids took bullshit AP exams and there's a good chance colleges won't count them. That's about the worst that's happened with a couple months of closed schools. Trivial in the grand scheme of things.
It my opinion, based on observation of family and extended family, and significant anecdotal evidence from discussion with other parents and teachers, that a certain age of children are really suffering emotionally and developmentally from these continued actions. If you don’t agree, that is fine.
I agree with you that the last two months of school were a disaster but they were a disaster for everyone. Its summer now, so its not like the extension makes any difference towards the education of kids. If schools is really two days a week in the fall ill be in your camp.
Extremely hyperbolic for you to suggest a couple months of this is significantly impacting child development, and there's no evidence to suggest it, and it's not in line with my own anecdotal evidence, so no I don't agree.
Furthermore, everyone is being impacted to some degree. You need to rework your angle. You'll have a much better chance making your case pointing to Michigan case data and economic impacts especially on lower income families rather than child development and mentions of communism.
Double.
There is not a good chance that colleges won’t accept the AP test results. They will be accepted is what we were told.
Well, that's what you were told by the AP, so a bit of a biased source.
However colleges have taken amended AP test scores before from events like Katrina, etc.
The biggest issue is with younger kids social/emotional development. from a pure learning standpoint, 1/3 of a school year isn't that huge of a deal except for those with learning challenges who are even more behind the 8 ball as it were.
Get the fuck out of here with this shit. I work with middle schoolers, zooming with them once a week. They hate not being able to see their friends more, but they're not chained to radiators or regressing developmentally. I have siblings that work with special needs students, and yeah, it's tough but they're not "never going to get their kids back from this."
I have coworkers, in Michigan, that are getting PT and OT treatments. You're acting like Gov. Whitmer is forcing you to drink your own piss or something. You're embarrassing yourself.
I won’t “get the fuck out of here with this shit.” I don’t care if you think I’m embarrassing myself. We are telling children to sit down and stare at a screen for 10 hours per day and they aren’t even at risk from this thing. Treating them like little Petrie dishes. People like you are the fucking embarrassment, virtue signaling like you give a shit but ignoring what is mass societal neglect.
Fuck you.
Ninety. Five. Thousand. People. Have. Died. In our country. Already.
It's almost a full big house already.
And you're bitching about having to stay at home (except for getting takeout, golfing, grocery shopping, some retail shopping, state parks, hiking, running, biking, etc etc etc etc etc) for another couple weeks.
It's over 100k already. Despite what the wingnuts are saying, deaths have been undercounted.
"I don’t care if you think I’m embarrassing myself."
Well, that's a good thing.
On May 22 in Michigan you could make some good points in support of opening things up. Too bad you're not ...
Whitmer is an idiot and we need Snyder to come back
Whitmer is an idiot and we need Snyder to come back
Apparently we need to add lead contaminated drinking water to the covid cure list with fish tank cleaner and light up buttplugs.
We already tell kids to stare at screens IN SCHOOL. It's not that hard to make them go outside. I promise you kids will recover from this. Good lord.
We are telling children to sit down and stare at a screen for 10 hours per day
No YOU are doing that.
Look, everyone with kids who has to balance WFH and kids and all this other shit has had a tough time. But you're coming off as just wanting to do anything so as to not spend time with your own kid.
Who is going to pay for this continuing state intervention which makes even less sense when you have surrounding states that are now open and their citizens are traveling through Michigan by plane or by car? The idea was to flatten the curve so hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed. We past that point weeks ago.
Even if we and other states that are running in the red (most if not all ot them) get federal money, it's either coming out of taxpayer pockets or it is another major piece of deficit spending. As it is, Michigan has huge infrastructure needs, roads, dams, etc. The longer this goes on, the worse things will get.
I'm not averse to wearing masks and social distancing, but there are ways to do those things that reduce spread and start opening things up or the economic costs and the ramifications of that in terms of disease from loss/delay of healthcare are going to ramp up. The cure will be worse than the disease.
Rest of the country opening up and she extends it to June 12. Fuck off.
She sucks.
I must be really ignorant to ask, but for her to keep extending this, I really have to ask “to what end?” If everyone else around you is opening up but you’re not, what is her endgame? Does she know something everyone else doesn’t? Is she doing it solely to give a big “FUCK YOU” to the armed protestors?
Im not criticizing your post, WD. I really am curious, for those who still live in MI, what are you hearing as to why she keeps extending the dates? I haven’t lived in MI since 2012 so I don’t keep my ear to the ground on MI news like I used to.
Hospitals are empty. Businesses are closing. People are out of work. There is no good reason for this.
She is already all in on lockdown politics. She must somehow think being on the most extreme end of this issue is going to pay off for if there is a “2nd wave”.
Some girl: So, what do you do as a living?
Me: I uh... I farm. I farm for a living.
You also reuse your stupid fucking jokes.
I don't understand this joke...at all.
Weed?
Dude's high on jenkem.
Problem is our Governor is a Communist... and that's ok with the robots which is really pitiful this Memorial Weekend.
I'm guessing you don't actually know what communism is.
I think he does. I don’t think you do.
Please enlighten us to how the goal of a classless society is relevant to social distancing policies attempting to limit the spread of a virus.
There's room for debate, but you're not in that room.
You wouldn’t last a minute in that room with me.
Jeez dude.
Just try then.
I'd love to hear you support how Michigan is under siege by Communism and your anecdotal musings on child development.
Probably right, most of us are one minute wonders.
This guy is an embarrassment.
Yet you get shut down routinely, by most everyone who cares to debate you.
You aren't nearly as smart as you seem to think you are.
If you think China is classless you are not as smart as you think you are.
Shanghai is full of wealthy communist.
The irony is, johnny boy is too fucking dumb to understand that this process is exacerbating the class divide in the country. The rich are sheltered from severe consequences of this SIP and the poor are fucked b/c of it
Or a robot for that matter.
Gotta get those scholars back into the classrooms as soon as possible, lest they be considered lesser academic institutions.
/s
SEC + Ohio State
Yep.
This seems like the sort of spot where a Conference commissioner --- a commissioner that theoretically is looking out for every school equally --- would come in.
If I were the commissioner (I'm not), I wouldn't allow any team to practice until all 14 teams are allowed to (per their state rules).
Doesn't look like that's going to happen, however.
Hell, as long as it gives OSU a leg up the Big Ten commissioner is all for it
Michigan is just trying to stretch it out.
We've been accused of that before.
No one is practicing, it’s just summer workouts.