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> ...someone on TV (probably DeBlasio or Cuomo) saying that public schools were not going to close. This was specifically because many of those students would

> ...someone on TV (probably DeBlasio or Cuomo) saying that public schools were not going to close. This was specifically because many of those students would go hungry since they rely on food programs at school. Without those programs, many students have little to eat at home. It's a little disingenuous to represent it in another light. If anything, it highlights yet another weakness in our society.

JPKab 6y ago
The weakness is that those kids are still being raised by losers who can't bother to feed their offspring. Food is dirt cheap. Grew up in poor schools with mostly free lunch recipients. Parents were mostly shit bags who spent money on typical crap you'd expect. The idea that it's anything more structural than culturally dysfunctional idiots not investing time in cooking for their kids because it's less work to let the school do it is wishful thinking.
jeffdavis 6y ago
Yes, of course they had reasons. It's not obvious what to do in a disaster. But did people die because of that decision? Probably. Maybe a lot. Tough calls. It comes down to who made those tough calls earlier. And that's not a partisan thing, or a smart/dumb thing. Plenty of bad decisions to go around, but we probably shouldn't lay the blame to thick anywhere. Because it's chaos and people are adapting and changing in real time. Look at someone like Newsom. One minute he's the mayor of SF, the next he's the governor of 40M people and he has to shut down the state to slow down the virus. I guarantee he's going to be a different person in 12 months.
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  > Look at someone like Newsom. One minute he's the mayor of SF, the next he's the governor of 40M people “The next minute” is off by something more than 6 orders of magnitude. You kind of skipped over ~4.2 million minutes he spent as Lieutenant Governor between those jobs.
  - jeffdavis 6y ago
    Wow. Time flies when I'm paying attention to other stuff ;-)
dragonwriter 6y ago
> This was specifically because many of those students would go hungry since they rely on food programs at school. California schools pretty much immediately set up daily meal pickup when they closed (often, for anyone under 18 at any school site.) And this was already happening when they said that.
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JPKab 6y ago

The weakness is that those kids are still being raised by losers who can't bother to feed their offspring. Food is dirt cheap. Grew up in poor schools with mostly free lunch recipients. Parents were mostly shit bags who spent money on typical crap you'd expect. The idea that it's anything more structural than culturally dysfunctional idiots not investing time in cooking for their kids because it's less work to let the school do it is wishful thinking.

jeffdavis 6y ago

Yes, of course they had reasons. It's not obvious what to do in a disaster. But did people die because of that decision? Probably. Maybe a lot. Tough calls. It comes down to who made those tough calls earlier. And that's not a partisan thing, or a smart/dumb thing. Plenty of bad decisions to go around, but we probably shouldn't lay the blame to thick anywhere. Because it's chaos and people are adapting and changing in real time. Look at someone like Newsom. One minute he's the mayor of SF, the next he's the governor of 40M people and he has to shut down the state to slow down the virus. I guarantee he's going to be a different person in 12 months.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> Look at someone like Newsom. One minute he's the mayor of SF, the next he's the governor of 40M people “The next minute” is off by something more than 6 orders of magnitude. You kind of skipped over ~4.2 million minutes he spent as Lieutenant Governor between those jobs.
- jeffdavis 6y ago
  Wow. Time flies when I'm paying attention to other stuff ;-)

dragonwriter 6y ago

> This was specifically because many of those students would go hungry since they rely on food programs at school. California schools pretty much immediately set up daily meal pickup when they closed (often, for anyone under 18 at any school site.) And this was already happening when they said that.

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