Those idiots are carrying on like TFG is still in power, and sadly for them he’s not and will never be again.
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Haven’t you made party plans for tomorrow since it’s “Trump Reinstatement Eve?”
Favorite sedition cocktails, or maybe a nice anti-democracy dip & chip canape?
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Lindell pushed it back until “sometime in September” or I’d be getting my suit pressed right now.
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Gov Newsom has required teachers and staff at schools to provide proof of vaccination or undergo daily tests. CA schools will be masking. LA County’s positivity rate has dropped to 4.4% from over 6% since masking was re-instituted. The City of LA has now passed a measure to require proof of vaccination to use indoor venues (restaurants, bars, coffee shops, arenas, gyms etc). I think there’s a decent chance that CA will be able to drive down the viral load reasonably quickly. Can’t say the same for the Southeast of the US.
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How many more of these school board putschs will there be?
Look at what Madison Cawthorn tried to pull last week. After his visit to Hitlers summer lair he must have been appraised about how to commit a school board putsch.
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5 parts lemon juice, one part MD2020. The Sour Grapes special.
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It was well done and seamless.
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I am grateful that my children are adults and their children are still too young to know. My oldest grandchild is 4. I feel so badly for parents trying to figure out what is best for their children. My adult son asked me what I would do and I said, “if it were you that was a child now, I would put a mask on you and send you to school.” I told my adult daughter the opposite. She was a bookworm, happy on her own with her piano and crayons and stack of library books and puzzles to ram through in a week. My heart aches for parents of school children right now. We thought this was almost over.
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Slightly OT: do your teenagers fit adult masks? I’ve got an unvaccinated elementary schooler. Im open to moving up from homemade masks - but where do you find ones that fit kids?
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Target used to have a mess of them. Maybe check their site online. I haven’t worked there in about a month.
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Thanks - I was actually there last night, looking for an n95/kn95 one for myself. They were sold out. I never manage to panic as fast as the rest of my city
They did have kids medical-style ones. I should have bought some but I was fixated on my other errand.
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Isn’t his name “DiSatan?”
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Newsom has apparently decided to lean into the “competent government response to crisis” angle, with the (farcical) recall election on the way. All the GOP wannabe-guv challengers who were salivating at the prospect of a backlash against re-masking may not find that such a clever tactic after all, thanks to the horrifying caseload numbers from the red states.
This might be one of those happy moments when the right policy and the right politics coincide.
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Trump has made the idea of a person acting like an adolescent seem like a way to act which will evoke the admiration of those with whom that person interacts.
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I’m an electronic subscriber to the Guardian -US edition. I was kind of non-plussed to get this message sent to me (my e-mail account):
Dear supporter,
The Delta variant is sending Covid rates soaring across the US, ripping through southern states with low vaccination rates, and presenting a new set of unknowns to researchers, parents and everyone else trying to navigate a pandemic that had seemed to be under control.
With Delta come many questions that Guardian reporters have been pursuing as hospitals in the deep south run out of ICU beds, mayors and governors reintroduce restrictions and health professionals report increased hospitalization of children with severe cases. Among the questions we are asking:
- How many vaccinated people are getting infected with so-called “breakthrough” Covid cases?
- Are children at particular risk as the school year begins?
- Can people who have been vaccinated still get long Covid?
Answering some of these questions is made tricky by the fact that the US has no centralized system for collecting information on breakthrough cases – because the CDC stopped tracking those cases earlier this year, and is now only collecting data on breakthrough cases that lead to hospitalization or death. In an op-ed we recently published, science writer Yasmin Tayag laments this dearth of information, which she says limits our ability to make informed decisions.
Jessica Glenza, senior health reporter for the Guardian US, published a Q&A collating what we know about Delta infections among the vaccinated. She speaks to experts with varying views on the wisdom of not tracking breakthrough cases. But amid a plethora of causes for concern is a clear bright spot: “hospitalizations and death for vaccinated people is ‘effectively zero’ in many US states reporting this data,” she reports.
If, like me, you’re a parent of a young child, that good news might be fueling a sense of urgency to get your kid vaccinated. As the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland reports, America’s pediatrics association has urged the FDA to fast-track vaccination approvals for children under 12. Amid stories of babies on ventilators, and devastating accounts of children suffering from long Covid, the approval can’t come fast enough.
Yet some public officials seem less concerned. With a new school year approaching, one that will be dominated by in-person learning, governors in states like Texas and Florida are doubling down on banning mask mandates. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, has gone as far as supporting withholding pay from school district leaders who require masks.
We’ll be paying close attention to how this plays out as the school year starts, and how the children on the front line of this political game fare as a result.
Until next week,
Noa Yachot
Guardian US membership editor
Seem like the Guardian cares more about our (and our kids’) welfare than we do here. I’ve been railing about how we keep COVID stats here (very poorly) for a while now, once the CDC was free from TFG and his numbskulls.
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If you live in Florida DeSantis wants you to die.
Over hype? Not really.
From the main page…
"But Gov. Ron DeSantis claims he didn’t ask the feds for the life-saving equipment".
I’d say this man is dangerous to your children
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“Your blanket orders do not reflect what is in the best interest of the students and staff of the Wall Township Public Schools and infringe on home rule,” board president Ralph Addonizio wrote, according to NJ.com. “We as a board have had some parents tell us how masks are negatively affecting their children’s psychological and emotional well-being, as well making it harder to learn and concentrate. Parents have expressed concerns over masking students for six hours per day.”
“Everybody believes it’s a home rule issue and it should be made at the local level,” Addonizio told NJ.com. “We’ve had many, many parents come to board meetings saying that they don’t want their children in masks, but we’ve also had parents email us saying that they’re in favor of mask mandates. Both sides of the equation are fine — we believe that it should be a local decision.”
Sorry, but “whether we should let some children infect other children” is not a home rule issue. Its a basic public health issue.
If a child can wear clothes for 6 hours a day, then they can wear a mask for 6 hours a day.
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The sad and tragic fact of the matter is that nothing will change these people’s minds until their own children get sick and die. The death of other adults hasn’t swayed them. The death of other people’s children won’t give them pause. It’s only when tragedy directly touches them that they will suddenly change their tune. The conservative mindset is sociopathic.
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omg… and she’s a School-Board Member… SMH. 
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We made Scofflaws for the Mango Menace’s first inauguration.
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