Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[BigBlueHen53]

CW bones. I just wanted ya'll to see how wild and cool this skull looks floating in its solution. It's a little murky because of the container, but I can't get over how crazy it looks. Like it's from a monster or something.

Blessed be for having a partner understanding enough to buy me flesh eating beetles for my birthday. XD

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[BigBlueHen53]

CW bones. I just wanted ya'll to see how wild and cool this skull looks floating in its solution. It's a little murky because of the container, but I can't get over how crazy it looks. Like it's from a monster or something.

Blessed be for having a partner understanding enough to buy me flesh eating beetles for my birthday. XD

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[Sapphire Sebright]

Cool!

Oops! Double post again.
That seems to be acting up for you lately.

 

[Kaarlo76]

I afraid coronavirus will infect, could then cause this to happen me.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

I afraid coronavirus will infect, could then cause this to happen me.

Dear goodness!
In an attempt to comfort, though: The deaths above seem to be very sudden, but the coronavirus seems to come on gradually. It doesn't kill quickly or spontaneously, I don't think.

 

[littledog]

I just feel like education is taking a backseat in the US. Other countries are excelling at education while we aren’t. That’s why most doctors come from other countries because they focus on education for the first 18 years of their lives. They don’t have parents forcing them to do sports and other things. The US focuses of everything, but education and it shows. They BARELY fund schools and have teachers foot the bill... other places do not do this.

You're so right! When I was a kid I was expected to take responsibility for my own education, my parents were not bribing me to do homework or checking it over. They did go over my report cards, and any time they were not up to snuff my other activities were put on hold until my grades improved.
I do think it's a lot more difficult for kids and parents today, because in most cases parents have to be at work when the kids get home from school, plus there is so much more effortless entertainment competing for the kids' attention.
I also believe there's more "anti-education" sentiment in this country than in others, too much attitude of "educated people are all elitists who talk down to us hard-working folks" as well as, "I went to 'the school of hard knocks' and that taught me more than any fancy college could do" type of attitudes.
It will take a lot to change these attitudes, but we need to learn to value education for itself, to value knowing things and understanding things, instead of just expecting a good education to be some sort of stepping-stone on the path to monetary riches.
Sports and other activities definitely have their place in schools - just not according to the hyper-competitive way they are done today. Kids who aren't into competition get pushed to the sidelines, then they miss out on getting any kind education for their bodies and muscles - this lack, I believe, adds to the prevalence of depression among young people.
I wish every school in our country required solid basics in reading, writing, critical research, history, math, biology, chemistry, physics, economics. As well as requiring every kid to take a foreign language, do some kind of sport (whether it's being a starter on the team, doing yoga or dance, hiking, geocaching around their city) do some form of art or craft (drawing, acting, a musical instrument, knitting, sewing, photography, making tik-tok videos) and some project related to agriculture (training their dog, participating in a community garden, composting kitchen scraps to raise a tomato plant in their window).
Of course our schools are massively underfunded and unbalanced in their priorities. With different priorities, and partnerships with community groups (also massively underfunded) our kids could have educations that prepare them as well as inspire them.
Lots of wishing, I guess.

 

[Folly's place]

Actually sounds a bit like the HS that I attended, long ago, It's still running, and most years 100% or so of graduates go on to college. It was good then, and it's good now.
Agree though, my parents both worked, and homework was my responsibility, and grades mattered, and going to college was expected.
Mary

 

[littledog]

MvGyvering, how tools are needed for proper maintenance and care for vehicles, tractor, mower. And with this summer they have been getting some basic electrical, plumbing, and other home repair experience with the house I've been doing repairs too over the last several months. Drywall work, spackle texture work, painting trim, how to tape prep. And they how to match paint for two tone "staining". As well as test and trouble shoot old paint colors. In a forensic thought pattern solving the mysteries. Plumbing stuff has been a part of it too. We have also been actively doing bike repair on their bicycles.
Trimming the dogs has been a sizable learning curve for them too.
And folks, I'm sure y'all will either complete agree or at least partially agree that: it never goes as planned or as smoothly as we wish. Sometimes it gets very messy. VERY MESSY.

Maybe I snipped your quote a little too much, because you discussed a lot of good stuff, even though it sounds frustrating. In recent years, it seems like too many kids have never learned hands-on problem solving, like how to jump a stalled vehicle, how to fix a leaky faucet, change a tire, sort lights from darks in the washer, measure and saw a piece of wood. Important life skills that your kids are learning (albeit more slowly than you would like) that will stand them in good stead in the future.

 

[FortCluck]

Actually sounds a bit like the HS that I attended, long ago, It's still running, and most years 100% or so of graduates go on to college. It was good then, and it's good now.
Agree though, my parents both worked, and homework was my responsibility, and grades mattered, and going to college was expected.
Mary

Now college isn't expected because companies are taking HS students that just graduated that will work for less pay... OUR COUNTRY has made education a thing of the past and to me it is not acceptable. Whenever cuts need to be made... The first thing the leaders look at is cutting school things, it shouldn't be this way.

They have that 300 BILLION sitting in an account from the last relief bill... WHY NOT send it to schools that are struggling to get students into the doors because those KIDS are the future. Nothing else matters if the kids have no education because this country will be rewinding to when schools never existed.

 

[Ab1010]

Be careful adding old plants to compost... that’s how pests and diseases start in the spring. I burn all my old plants then put the ashes in the woods

Ohh. Good to know!! Thank you. Ive never done one before.