President Biden thread

"afraid"

Hahahahaha

By "afraid" do you mean relies on the science and the advice of scientists?

7 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Sure.  Or maybe the Dems could rid of all the non covid related crap in their bill?  And, why arent they meeting day, night, and weekends until something gets done?

And, let's not forget what's occupying the Senate's time this week.  

 

I recall you expressing deep frustration over McConnell's lazy senate schedule...oh wait. 

17 hours ago, Beerman said:

The advice of experts is to get kids in school.  It is a calculated risk to do so.

Biden is afraid to 1) anger the teachers unions, and 2) is afraid to take that calculated risk that it will make things better and no worse.

Beerman, what would your assessment of Biden be like if you are being honest? For example, what do you think of his appointments so far and how do you think potentially, he's likely to progress? 

You can choose to avoid the question but then it would show that you are operating emotionally instead of objectively. 

The reason I'm asking is because either you can see if your predictions are correct going forward and therefore it should reinforce your thinking OR you may be wrong and you might need to adjust your assessment skills and we will need to take you more seriously. 

My prediction is that he will be just fine because he's selected people who are experts and he's not going to micromanage. Also being an experienced politician, he's going to find solutions much quicker and being unencumbered by emotional lability or pride, he's likely to admit when he's wrong and quickly go about rectifying his mistakes. 

I also predict that the rest of the world will welcome him warmly and work with him well. 

That's my predictions. What's yours? 

I'm not that good calendar math, but isn't 100 days from Jan 20 the end of April? And the new secretary of education hasn't even been confirmed, let alone sworn it yet. Maybe the school opening could have gone quicker had Dr. Cardona been confirmed sooner. 

Schools in my rural area are slowly opening. Our local high school has a million year old heating system that is on life support (whole school due to be replaced next year) and no air conditioning. The classroom windows are open for ventilation. Kids so want to be in school so they go bundled up like the Michelin Man. 

I have three kids in school and my wife's a teacher, so maybe my expectation of what "reopening schools" looks like had the advantage of insider information, but I've never been under the impression that the transition to reopening schools would involve normal classroom sizes and five days a week of in-class instruction.

Since last year actually the plan has been to eventually move to having kids at school at most 2 or 3 days a week when schools 'reopen', this is to allow for the 'distancing' this would need to include.

I would agree that the goal of having the "majority of schools reopen for in person learning" was a bit silly, but because we weren't that far from that goal and supposedly we just passed that goal (we're now at just over 51% of schools that are providing in-person learning).