Questions my kid has asked:
- If there was only one hospital bed left, and there were two kids sick, me and someone healthy…they…would get the bed instead of me because I have a disability? /1
Questions my kid has asked:
-Why doesn’t the government care about kids with disabilities? /2
Questions my kid has asked:
-What will happen when they decide immunocompromised people are “disease vectors” for new variants, and then start saying that with their out loud voices? /3
Question I want answered:
Why the hell does an 11 year old have to ask these questions? What is wrong with the @CDCDirector that she does not consider the impact of her words on OUR FUTURE? /###
Getting some “I don’t think an 11 year old said this” from the jorts wearers in my mentions. Kiddo has had p-l-e-n-t-y of time to learn big concepts while homeschooling, and makes good use of Google to try and understand why we are stuck in this house. I suggest you do the same.
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Here she is at 2. #UnwellToBeginWith, but so proud to be learning about our country in preschool. She’s 11 now, and tells me she doesn’t think anyone in government cares about her because she has a disability. /3
I wholeheartedly condemn GOP members who refused to wear masks in a closed room for hours. Many Dem colleagues are now Covid + as a result. BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR TEACHERS? A thread. /1
For hours, masked Dem MOCs were in an enclosed space with unmasked GOP members. Repeat. Dems had masks on. Shoulda been fine, right? Wrong. Let’s talk about aerosols and saturation. Covid is airborne and can linger in the air. /2
Conditions at the Capitol were similar to everyday school environments - especially high school. Crowding, shouting, sporadic adherence to mask wearing. Even in some schools doing a better job at compliance, we’re still talking about closed indoor spaces. /3
So, I didn’t get around to requesting an absentee ballot and I went to early vote today instead. I was also curious as to how the Barrow County BOE was going to live up to the promises the GA SoS made with regards to new machines. TLDR; right to secret ballot = denied. /1
I walked in, encouraged by social distancing stickers and hand sanitizer. Then I approached the election official. No mask. We’ll come back to this issue in a minute.
Then a second poll worker (also no mask) instructed me to pick a machine. Here is where the fun begins.. /2
As I look into the room ahead, there are perhaps 8 machines in a room that looked to be 15’x20’. Machines had cute blue dividers of the sort intended to keep kids from cheating on tests. Cute, I say, in the sense that they were laughable, and as effective as cling wrap pants. /3