Here’s the thing: At the end of this we need schools open. But we need to have a very honest conversation if it needs to happen with these teachers. washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
Do you want people teaching your children who will pull these stunts in order to avoid it?
These are not people who care about what’s best for kids. These are not people who carry in their hearts what you want imprinted on that of future generations.
We want to raise a generation with compassion and an appreciation for hard work and you’re not going to get that with kids spending eight hours a day, five days a week with people like this. You’re just not.
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Have most people who spend their time online complaining about 2020 actually had a bad year? Lost a job or loved one? Most folks I see basically missed out on a vacation.
Complaining about 2020 has become a sport and the constant negativity is a spiral and people wallow in their imagined misery.
It is bad for your mental health to spend this much time convincing yourself that your life is miserable.
Ain’t nobody died cause we went to a museum (Wednesday, in fact!). And I also haven’t conserved conservativism while openly cheating on my spouse.
Seriously though, that thread aged like fine wine. NYS contact tracing put infections around 73% within households and restaurants and gyms under 2%. This is my masked daughter standing 10 feet from another masked person in a museum this week. It can and should be done safely.
This was the idea behind @kosher19org - we wouldn’t accept discounts from restaurants. We wanted a laudable reason for people to donate (hence, to HCW) but the driving force was to get income into the hands of small restaurant businesses. It became too unmanageable for us to run.
We need more of this and specifically, we need the Jewish community to step up in this way. We need a massive fund to make sure we still have Judaica shops, bookstores and RESTAURANTS.
This is just a tweet to remind you that what we are doing to small businesses, especially restaurants, bars and gyms, is theft.
A number of particularly obtuse people replying seem to think that I am arguing that everything should be open without restrictions. That’s not what I’m arguing. But if the government is going to force a business out of business, the business owner should be compensated.
This is tyrannical. The government should not be allowed to effectively put businesses out of business without providing definitive proof that cases can be directly linked to them.
I feel like I’m screaming into the void. How can we all sit by while the government strips so many people out of their livelihood? How is there no expectation that they provide anything resembling proof?
We started a revolution about a fucking tax on tea. America, what the fuck are you doing?
I have raised close to $2000 to buy kits from this woman to benefit the charitable organization of her choice (Chai 4 Ever). She will bring pottery kits to kids in need. If you’re interested in donating you can Venmo me @bethanyshondark.
In addition, we are buying Hanukkah kits for our kids for Hanukkah. You can buy any shape from her to give to your kids or relatives this holiday season. Please keep small businesses in mind while you are doing your shopping. Message her on the number on the flyer.
My inbox overfloweth. We’re at about $2500 raised. That’s about 100 donated pottery kits for Chai 4 Ever!