Is school fatal?
When CBC released the latest pandemic numbers for this province yesterday, I did look. Couldn’t make any sense out of the tallies, until I read just a bit more. We have numbers, but lacking any scientific validity.
We still test, a bit. We still track those elusive contacts, a bit. But the public now puts brackets around the trends. The quip that we are all going to get it, eventually is a knife with two dull edges. Doubt is setting in. Did I have “it”? Maybe. In the absence of science, we are reduced to, well, nothing of value. People are much more concerned about restaurants opening and summer concert dates going up. And the government couldn’t be happier. Remember, small business and our currrent government are besties. It’s all about tax revenues, and since we seem to have escaped the fatal flavour or the pandemic, life is fine. Keep that in mind, going forward.
Outside, new bird sightings. I mean, by others. I don’t catch the flash of yellow, orange, purple, whatever. They’re out there, and others are pleased. I wonder. If I left a window open, would something pretty come in to raid the sack of seeds? Just an idle thought.
More death by education, in the south. As one commentator put it, children fear going to school. Not because their homework wasn’t done. Lead poisoning, and not from the drinking water. Things are not improving, despite a lifetime of examples. And when it is pointed out that this does not happen in any other nation: crickets.
