Coronavirus Outbreak

[Ken]

In education I think there is a greater willingness to accommodate remote and online learning that isn't going to go away post-pandemic.

Most larger school districts now have online academies for students who want to do some or all of their education remotely. Districts set these up during the pandemic to accommodate students and families who didn't want to return to "hybrid" learning and such. Or students who found out that they did better in remote/online learning than in in-person classroom learning. These sorts of online academies existed before the pandemic but they were much more rare and not universally supported.

Essentially it is assisted homeschooling and gives families a middle ground option between traditional in-person schooling and complete home schooling where the parent is responsible for all the instruction.

[barnhart]

Interesting Ken, do you think that is coupled with a willingness to re-evaluate the role standardized testing should play in education.

[Ken]

Interesting Ken, do you think that is coupled with a willingness to re-evaluate the role standardized testing should play in education.

Probably not. Online students are still subject to all the same standardized testing as in-person students. States would have to abandon or modify all the Common Core standards which contain extensive standardized testing requirements and were adopted into statute in many states. That was one of the worst legacies of the Bush/Obama era in education. Bush started most of it and Obama mostly continued down the same path unchanged.

Some of it was put on temporary hold during the pandemic for logistical reasons but it is already back. My school was back to all the state-mandated standardized testing last year and I had the pleasure of proctoring nearly a week's worth of required standardized testing of 11th graders. Online students had to return to campus for required testing. The only thing new is that it is all on Chromebooks today instead of paper and pencil bubble forms.

I'm most familiar with Texas because I taught there the longest. In Texas standardized testing is actually used as a weapon by conservative politicians to wrest control away from school districts in minority areas. And the massive multi-national companies like Pearson who make billions off standardized testing tend to promote testing mandates by giving millions of dollars to conservative politicians who impose those testing requirements (only on public schools of course).

I don't see that as going away any time soon even though it is mostly a fiasco that should be done away with for the most part. There are far better, cheaper, and less disruptive ways to track student progress across schools, districts, and states than universal mandatory standardized testing.

[Robert]

With a new wave of Covid hitting.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/1 ... e-00052384

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching an overhaul of its structure and operations in an attempt to modernize the agency and rehabilitate its reputation following intense criticism of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and, more recently, the growing monkeypox outbreak.

On Wednesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky shared a series of changes with CDC leadership and staff designed to “transform” the organization and its work culture by improving how the agency shares information, develops public health guidance and communicates with the American public.

“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,” Walensky said in a statement. “As a long-time admirer of this agency and a champion for public health, I want us all to do better.”

The CDC restructuring follows two reviews conducted in recent months, one by Health Resources and Services Administration official Jim Macrae into the CDC’s pandemic response and another by CDC Chief of Staff Sherri Berger into agency operations.

The reviews concluded that the “traditional scientific and communication processes were not adequate to effectively respond to a crisis the size and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to an agency statement.

Specifically, Macrae’s review, which included 120 interviews with CDC staffers and people outside the agency, recommended a series of improvements, including releasing scientific findings and data more quickly to improve transparency, translating science into practical and easy-to-understand policy, improving communication with the public, working better with other agencies and public health partners, and training and incentivizing the agency’s workforce to respond better to public health emergencies.

There is consensus within the CDC that it “needs to make some changes for how it communicates and how it operates — to be faster, to be nimbler, to use more plain spoken language,” said a CDC official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the changes before they were announced.

[Robert]

[Valerie]

More sad links to follow

[temporal1]

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More sad links to follow

Any word from/about haithabu?
his last post was October 2021.

[Valerie]

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More sad links to follow

Any word from/about haithabu?
his last post was October 2021.

I really wish we knew. Maybe its Canada posters? Wade? Who else?

[temporal1]

More sad links to follow

Any word from/about haithabu?
his last post was October 2021.

I really wish we knew. Maybe its Canada posters? Wade? Who else?

some in Canada have left, i think mostly with explanation .. Wade has come+gone now+then, Hats Off let us know his fellowship was increasing internet restrictions, signtist comes+goes ..

but, as you pointed out months ago, haithabu was active for awhile, then disappeared. he was busy, different family members had the virus, but. ?? it makes me wonder if he became ill? how is it going? also, questions about Canada restricting him? changes in fellowship rules? it’s been silent. often, someone on forum will share a bit of info? ..

he isn’t a frequent poster. still. it’s not long now until a year with no word.

[Robert]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/embalmers ... s=SHRNBSWT

Several embalmers across the country have been observing many large, and sometimes very long, “fibrous” and rubbery clots inside the corpses they treat, and are speaking out about their findings.

Numerous embalmers from different states confirmed to The Epoch Times that they have been seeing these strange clots, starting from either 2020 or 2021.

It’s not yet known if the cause of the new clot phenomenon is COVID-19, vaccines, both, or something different.

“The very large blood clots that are being removed before and after death are unlike anything we have ever seen in medicine,” Dr. James Thorp, a maternal-fetal medicine expert who has been observing anomalies in pregnant women and fetuses, told The Epoch Times.

“The COVID-19 vaccine diverts energy away from the physiologic processes in the body towards the production of the toxic spike protein,” Thorp said. “This directs energy away from the normal process of internal digestion also known as autophagy. This results in protein misfolding and propagation of large intravascular blood clots and also a variety of related diseases including prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, amyloidosis, and dementias including Alzheimer’s and others. While it is possible that COVID-19 illness in itself could potentially contribute to these diseases, it is unlikely and if so the effect of the vaccine would be 100- to 1,000-fold greater than that of COVID-19 disease.”

“The pathologists will need to do more detailed examinations than are routinely done to answer this question. This process, for example, could lead to an acute myocardial infarction with enzyme elevation in a young soccer player with no gross anatomical findings.”

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who has been analyzing vaccine adverse reactions for about three decades, also thinks the clots have to do with amyloid proteins.

“It appears the answer is coming directly through that needle. Spike protein disease, leading to the deposition of amyloid in organs and filling up arteries and veins,” Tenpenny told The Epoch Times.

“The spike protein also interacts with platelets and fibrinogen, interfering with blood flow, also leading directly to hypercoagulation. When the spike protein was mixed with other blood proteins, the combined amyloid-like structure was resistant to the enzymes that would normally break down the clot (called impaired fibrinolysis),” she added.

“This leads to the persistence of a voluminous number of microclots in small blood vessels throughout the body called capillaries. Millions of these tiny clots effectively block the passage of red blood cells into tissues, decreasing oxygen exchange and leading to multiorgan system failure.”