It's a brilliant move, rhetorically. I hope it works.
Everybody's been indignantly saying, "Oh, you can regulate skirt length but not mask-wearing?" but to embed mask-wearing so strategically, at this particular time and place, is just beautiful.
I was too lazy to figure out how to make the greater than/less than symbols show up, to make the "chef's kiss" line work.
I didn't like the movie (Paris, Texas) but that is great.
The cheeks are the thighs of the face.
This belongs to the same genre as the trillion-dollar coin fantasies: i.e., the progressive counterpart to sovereign citizens' maritime law/fringed flag delusions about the power of speech acts. I suppose they're harmless compared to the right wing fantasies of murdering everybody they dislike.
That's why there's an analogy ban. Why exactly is it delusional to put regulations involving clothing under the dress code?
You'd think the cheeks would be the cheeks.
5: I actually loved the movie Paris, Texas--how slow it was, and a great depiction of a fugue state (and aftermath), have been wanting to watch that movie again and curious if I would still feel the same way.
And color me a bit surprised to see the push back by the school district on masking.
5: I actually loved the movie Paris, Texas--how slow it was, and a great depiction of a fugue state (and aftermath), have been wanting to watch that movie again and curious if I would still feel the same way.
And color me a bit surprised to see the push back by the school district on masking.
Do you think the fact that Abbott now apparently has covid will make any difference?
Do you think the fact that Abbott now apparently has covid will make any difference?
"If you had a fancy woman, would you bring her in a place like this?"
"Here's your one chance, Fancy don't let me down. "
I may not have understood the assignment.
10/11 -- I think it's clearly a well made movie, just not my taste.
Nobody needs to see that much of Jack Black.
Is the 40-comment rule still in force, or is it now "40 comments or 24 hours, whichever comes first," or something else?
12/13: not one whit. If anything, him being asymptomatic will shore up their collective arrogance.
20, 22: Premature diverters of threads will be prosecuted!
The Catholic schools here just mandated masks. There's a petition against it, but I would guess plenty of the signatories don't have kids in the schools. Most of the public schools in the diocese also have mask mandates, so mostly there's not a choice.
The public schools do not have a mandate in some of the suburbs, but not the nicer ones where people I know live. I would bet that "no mandate" means that for fear of shunning or bullying there's no masks.
24: Catholic schools here were suing on the basis that requiring masks were detrimental to students' freedom to express themselves and masking was hiding children's god-given features. I thought that was particularly rich for schools known for making kids wear uniforms.
I'm sure the rural ones would sue here if there was a state mandate, but there is not.
They started the suit last year when there was a statewide mandate and are still pursuing it. I don't quite follow, but in case there's a new mandate, they have a head start?
School uniforms are socialist and Good because they train students to expect similar basic material conditions and foster egalitarianism.
And they train heterosexual boys to be attracted to plaid, a relatively common and inexpensive fabric.
Anyway, in about three weeks we're going to have really good data on how transmissible Delta is among children and how many of them develop significant symptoms. Knowing things is good.
I would bet that "no mandate" means that for fear of shunning or bullying there's no masks.
My kid told me that he really wants a mandate and for everybody to wear masks but if there's no mandate he plans to not wear one because no one else will be.
The real treasure are the friends who lead you to do dangerous things along the way so decades later you can tell stories about how stupid things were back in the day.
I feel like that holds for all regulations. Your business will do a lot better treating its employees ethically if all businesses are required to do the same. It's a much bigger cost to be the only one.
Republican election chances depend on mostly-male voters resenting "liberals" telling them not to do stuff. A government mandate doesn't maximize that, but making your fourth grade teacher enforce things does. It's a really good strategy if you don't care about other people's illness and death.
Dirty republicans spread disease: shot them!
One suburban school district has gone from masks recommended to masks required back to masks recommended in a couple of weeks.
I can open this link on my phone, but not on my computer. Anyway, a principal from a rural school district near here is having quite a time with the masks:
https://www.smore.com/pf0hw-an-open-letter-to-the-vhs-community
I can open it on my phone too.
I am once again wondering about the long term political and social effects of conservatives defining themselves as the most tedious of whining bitches. I mean, you can have social events attended by people who hold different values, but you can't with people who won't behave like adults.
I wonder about the effect of facilitating the death and illness of your own constituents.
We already know that doesn't matter.
cf. Guns. But I guess they are fun to.
Getting Covid will become a required rite of passage for Republians.
"Don't trust anyone who hasn't been infected."
"I got Covid and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."
"We must secure the existence of our people, a future for white children, and the ability to get diseases of our own choosing."
"VHS community" amuses me because I'm picturing a group that still watches movies like it's 1985.
Anyway, guns are fun but not now because I'm old and loud noise bothers me. Moving on to archery.
I drove past an anti-vax protest near Dartmouth which is totally on brand. I didn't honk because that means you support them, but I didn't have time to roll down the window to give them the finger.
45: I made the same joke to the local friend thread in which that link was shared.
Our legislature passed a badly worded law that maybe prevented universities from instituting mask mandates and on appeal, day before yesterday, the state supreme court said "this does not ban mask mandates" and to my great surprise, my uni instituted a mask mandate the next day (first day of classes, as it turned out). That was yesterday.
Today, a colleague told me that one of her advisees, a biology major and A PUBLIC HEALTH MINOR withdrew from all her classes at the prospect having to wear a mask.
48: There's no such thing as a joke that's too obvious.