When it really happens: SHTF...

[usabaker]

Good grief ... I thought it was bad here in the UK!

You have no idea.... The best thing the San Deigo school district ever did for my son is to tell my wife and I that our son could not go to Public Pre-School because we made too much money with our combined income. Our son has been in a private school ever since (9th grade now.) I thank GOD he's never set foot in public school.

[Ovidio]

I can understand you very well.
I was very worried about public schools and, before moving to "the Far East" of Italy, I sent my kids to a private school close to the Swiss border, where I lived.
Here the situation is a lot better, because our region has a special status, being it on the border and multi tongue, so we have a lot of autonomy, which helps make also public school much better than elsewhere.
You still have to cope with some unionised teachers, who think the school is there for them and not for the pupils, but it is acceptable.

[Aragorn243]

Something significant happened and I'm not sure why. And kind of laughing at how this is now significant.

Our Walmart opened it's other door for entry and exit. Seven months that door has been closed and all of a sudden, there it is open like it was never closed. The aisles were also packed with stuff, almost like all those Chinese ships off the coast have been unloaded.

As for public schools, I think our schools are pretty good and I have no real complaints about them for our kids. But then I live in a fairly conservative area that allows rifle teams in the schools so not sure if that says anything for the majority of public schools.

I think the more rural they are, the better the education they are going to get, the more urban, the worse they are going to get. I hear a lot of stories and see a lot of evidence to support the latter at least.

[Ovidio]

Little update: the situation in my son's school was clarified in the past days. The alarm started because more than 40% of the kids were absent. The new Covid-rules say that in such a case, an information has to be given to the health authorities. These inform the school and families that they'll check on the situation and then, if something arises, that they'll send an email to inform about the preemptive quarantine.
In this case, 2 kids were home because of fever, but all the rest were home (authorised by their parents, since we are informed in real-time about the presence at school of the kids) because there were Latin interrogations.
FOOOOOOOOOLS!!!
Now, one of the feverish guys resulted positive, so my son really is in preemptive isolation.
Not the rest of the family.
I'm curious now to see how all this develops.
He voluntarily isolated himself from us, but we were together until yesterday after dinner...

[usabaker]

Now, one of the feverish guys resulted positive, so my son really is in preemptive isolation.
Not the rest of the family.
I'm curious now to see how all this develops.
He voluntarily isolated himself from us, but we were together until yesterday after dinner...

I fear this is going to be the norm for a very long time to come. I hope that your son did not contact this crap.

[Ovidio]

Me too...

[Ovidio]

Rough days these.
Apart from this frigging Covid and my son’s school, my wife has been immobilised in bed since Wednesday last week.
Slipped discs. Horrendous inflammatory state of the nerves and unbearable pain.
Saturday a trip to the emergency room, some painkillers and then out.
The three km back to home were a real torture, so, from Saturday night, everything even worse.
Yesterday, again a call to the ambulance, because she was completely done and could not move even in bed anymore.
The funny part is that her doctor came, measured her temperature, which was ok, then called personally the ambulance. They came, took again the temperature and...37.7C. Covid scenario. So they had to go out, dress up like space troopers and come get her.
The doctor had to leave. I could not go to the hospital.
After one hour, alarm was called off. Three measurements and always ok again.
Then, she started to be treated, finally.
One night in, drugs without end and...still like before.
CT-scan shows nothing has changed from the last time she had a similar case.
Now she’s back and laying in bed, in total pain.
The only cure will be patience, the doctors told us. The inflammatory state will slowly recede keeping up the cures.
But what struck me, is how much that Covid thing affects everything and everybody.
How many people have to endure prolonged suffering, lack of treatments, of cures, of preemptive check-ups so that this virus does not spread.
Is that really sensible? So extreme at least?
I’m not sure about this.

[Surpmil]

This may be of interest: Inversion therapy in patients with pure single level lumbar discogenic disease: a pilot randomized trial - PubMed

Source is here

Best of luck with it!

[Aragorn243]

The state of our world today. A new survey shows that only 75% of Americans believe they will survive Covid if they contract it. A virus that has a 99.98% survival rate for anyone under 50, a 99.95% survival rate for those between 50-70 and a 94.6% survival rate for those over 70. Not surprising, this belief is solidly along party lines. Also not surprising is the article is worded to make it look like it is a positive thing that 75% believe they will survive.

Tell the freaking truth and maybe people wouldn't believe this crap.

[browningautorifle]

A new survey shows that only 75% of Americans believe they will survive Covid if they contract it.

It's the way it was pushed at us though. Here, we were told this was and still IS doom for any and all that contract it. Thus the massive control actions of the Gum't...and people knuckling under and following like sheep. It's here now, get used to it. It won't ever go away.