He's gone till next Wednesday so Possum will be cooking his dinner.
Since he's retired he has "organised" all my DIY tools and messed up my sorted screw, nuts bolts, rawl plugs. I'm reclaiming them - and also fixing the holes in the plasterboard he made with said drill when he was failing to hang a shelf.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Why is it these days, when we have access to the whole world's information at our finger tips, that people increasingly regard things that they don't understand as being wrong rather than just attempting to learn and understand? At the very least just try and grow a sense of humour...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Masks for kids at secondary school. That's it. Why? What benefit?
I'm not keen on masks (ab)use for the public in general (although for closed areas with unavoidable close contact - maybe) , and I really can't see this working at school. My understanding is that the kids are 'mask free' in the classroom, but then have to wear masks when 'in transit' between rooms and to and from school if on public transport.
If a mask is worn (as now some are suggesting that masks may have to be worn in the classroom too) for a prolonged period, they should be changed periodically anyway as the moisture saturates the mask. Masks should not be touched anyway - so what happens here? The kid grabs a mask from where? Their pocket...school bag (in with their books)? They put it on to walk between lessons and then take it off (and put it where?) on entry to the classroom - so hand sanitise on entry to each room? So the queue - all congregating outside the room to sanitise - is a bunch of kids taking off or having taken off their masks?
Hopefully most schools are looking at moving the teachers between rooms more than moving the kids - although certain rooms by their nature have to be moved to (labs and specially equipped rooms) - as we used to have a day of 40 min lessons and having to put on a mask 'n' times a day just seems to be asking for more trouble.
If I recall my senior school days correctly, the kids were always pulling pranks (how many masks are going to be 'purloined' and have 'stuff' put in them?), losing stuff, forgetting stuff and not quite just following rules.
The WHO has access to data from across the world and recommends the wearing of masks in public places as one of many preventive measures. It has never said they are a panacea and we do still all have to take responsibility for following other safety measures such as hygiene and distancing and being careful of and for others.
Masks in schools are for wearing in the corridors and at breaks, not in the classroom.
One assumes young people, whether teens or 20s or 30s, value and love their parents, grandparents and great grandparents enough not to put them at risk by flouting easy social rules.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Maybe your googling skills are better than mine (not saying much), but I couldn't find any research into mask usage that had been done outside of lab conditions - simply because of the difficulty of performing/controlling such a test (especially with live viruses). I think I posted a mask research lit review here a while back that emphasised that.
IF the kids wear the masks and adopt the same attitude as the adults I see in the supermarket each week - where masks are often touched, worn below the nose or not worn at all (and by adults from <20 to >80 - who presumably should also know better?) - then I'm not so confident as you. Plus, where a one off trip to a SM is quite simple to control - that isn't quite the same if a mask has to be put on and taken off between each room move (in my day that was between each 40 minute lesson) - as the mask has to be stored somewhere and not touched by the mask area itself.
But we'll see - just over a week to go here before the local TV news will be at the local schools showing how it all went on day one.
I will lay a bet that day 1 will be ok...day 2 ok....day... BUT it will become a nonsense - just like people are already acting like the virus is a thing of the past, the kids at school will become more and more blase.
Edited: Woman on Radio 4 just saying the same thing...that kids behaviour needs to be taken into consideration when advocating mask wearing.
A person's screw and nail collections are sacred. My husband gave mine away once many years ago. Never again👺. I have since amassed a reasonable collection, but I bet the perfect screw that you can never find was in that lost collection.
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Since he's retired he has "organised" all my DIY tools and messed up my sorted screw, nuts bolts, rawl plugs. I'm reclaiming them - and also fixing the holes in the plasterboard he made with said drill when he was failing to hang a shelf.
Masks in schools are for wearing in the corridors and at breaks, not in the classroom.
One assumes young people, whether teens or 20s or 30s, value and love their parents, grandparents and great grandparents enough not to put them at risk by flouting easy social rules.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/revealed-the-extent-of-the-daily-mails-support-for-the-british-union-of-fascists/28/10/
https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2017/oct/31/horrible-history-daily-mail
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My husband gave mine away once many years ago. Never again👺. I have since amassed a reasonable collection, but I bet the perfect screw that you can never find was in that lost collection.