At the corner table til closing hours.

4 yrs

Bolt

Comment

1594773108

Daughter was born, "Olympia Lightning Bolt"

· 0

Saw this. Copy/re-pasted. The end of cash is another progression in totalitarianism.

----

HERE'S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS

A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.

* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.

* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.

* No more money in birthday cards.

* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.

* No more cash for a rainy day fund or for that something special you have been putting £20 a week away for.

* No more fivers on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.

* No more charity collections.

* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.

* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.

What a cashless society does guarantee:

* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.

* Every transaction you make is recorded.

* All your movements & actions are traceable.

* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.

* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every pound in your possession.

* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.

* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

I could write lists for 5 days & still not finish explaining how utterly awful a cashless society would be, for everyone. Even for the goody two shoes who wouldn’t dream of not declaring £500.
Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence. I heard a story where a man supposedly contracted Covid because of a £20 note he had handled. There is the same chance of Covid being on a card as being on cash. If you cannot see how utterly ridiculous this assumption is then there is little hope.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash & that has nothing to do with a virus, nor has this ‘dirty money’ trend.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas. Please stop telling me & others like me that we are what’s wrong with the world when you hail the most corrupt members of society as your heroes. Politics & greed is what is wrong with the world; not those who are trying to alert you to the reality in which you are blindly floating along whilst being immobilised by irrational fear. Fear created to keep you doing & believing in exactly what you are complacently doing.

Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

Copy and Pasted - keep sharing.

Comment

4 yrs

wow, S H O C K E R

Comment

1594680987

overkill

· 0

1594680994

Same in Texas except, businesses are being fined $1,000, individuals get a warning and then follow up with $250.00 each time while in Austin, it's $2000, but here's the thing. Police won't enforce it and 80 counties have refused, but the Governor and local officials won't listen.

· 0

1594683366

My local PD sent out a message on social media letting us know if you have issues, to call the Governor's office...but certainly, do NOT call them if someone isn't wearing a mask and you care. It seemed like it was a "We know what the Governor said...we aren't really interested, but if you are, you can call her."

8 Replies

4 yrs

I have now seen this exact same post from at least 3 different sources on Facebook. Definitely an organized push to keep schools closed in the fall.

Comment

1594676025

President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are pushing hard to get schools fully reopened in a few weeks, but neither has ever been in charge of setting up a classroom nor preparing to see students. DeVos and Vice President Pence do have long histories of favoring private, for-profit charter schools at the expense of public schools. I have to wonder if she is both bowing to President Trump's urgency to get re-elected, and seizing upon an opportunity to deal the public schools another blow. Based on my personal experience and California weather, I think from August to October, I would try and take my classes outdoors and find a bit of 95-degree shade, before crowding 30 junior high students into a normal-sized classroom. A teacher friend in Texas copied the questions below from a teacher somewhere else, and each is a valid question. We do have more questions than answers at this point. One consideration that had not occurred to me previously is that we can expect high teacher absenteeism. The district I just retired from had habitual problems obtaining enough substitute teachers to fill classrooms under ordinary needs, and many of those substitutes were former teachers, now retired, and often elderly. What happens to a school when a couple of teachers test positive at the same time and must each quarantine for two weeks? Ten school days is what most districts give their teachers in paid sick days. When there are emergencies and a teacher must be out for several weeks, other teachers often donate sick days, but what happens at a school when several teachers need the two or three months that Covid-19 patents (who do recover) often need before being back on their feet? Can we expect teacher stress levels to reach the strike threshold? Do we send in the National Guard to cover classrooms? Do we start the school year with full schedules knowing we may have to abort the plan in October or November? Or might it be better to start with a more limited plan, one we can have a better chance of carrying to completion?

Questions for School Openings:

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?

• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?

• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?

• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?

• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?

• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?

• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?

• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?

• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?

(Note: 30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.)

· 0

President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are pushing hard to get schools fully reopened in a few weeks, but neither has ever been in charge of setting up a classroom nor preparing to see students. DeVos and Vice President Pence do have long histories of favoring private, for-profit charter schools at the expense of public schools. I have to wonder if she is both bowing to President Trump's urgency to get re-elected, and seizing upon an opportunity to deal the public schools another blow. Based on my personal experience and California weather, I think from August to October, I would try and take my classes outdoors and find a bit of 95-degree shade, before crowding 30 junior high students into a normal-sized classroom. A teacher friend in Texas copied the questions below from a teacher somewhere else, and each is a valid question. We do have more questions than answers at this point. One consideration that had not occurred to me previously is that we can expect high teacher absenteeism. The district I just retired from had habitual problems obtaining enough substitute teachers to fill classrooms under ordinary needs, and many of those substitutes were former teachers, now retired, and often elderly. What happens to a school when a couple of teachers test positive at the same time and must each quarantine for two weeks? Ten school days is what most districts give their teachers in paid sick days. When there are emergencies and a teacher must be out for several weeks, other teachers often donate sick days, but what happens at a school when several teachers need the two or three months that Covid-19 patents (who do recover) often need before being back on their feet? Can we expect teacher stress levels to reach the strike threshold? Do we send in the National Guard to cover classrooms? Do we start the school year with full schedules knowing we may have to abort the plan in October or November? Or might it be better to start with a more limited plan, one we can have a better chance of carrying to completion? 
 
Questions for School Openings: 
 
• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid? 
 
• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days? 
 
• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that? 
 
• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid? 
 
• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay? 
 
• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that? 
 
• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long? 
 
• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out? 
 
• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid? 
 
• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer? 
 
(Note: 30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.)

1594678101

interesting this suggestion that Trump perceives that opening schools will help his election chances. wouldn't that imply that Trump thinks he is advocating for what the majority want?

· 0

1594828680

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ger....man-study-finds-no-e

· 0

4 yrs

Not good.

www.vox.com

Vox Media

My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes.

Comment

1594666614

Didn't read the article.

I'm skeptical of these kinds of claims. If there is no (relatively long) immunity to the coronavirus, it will be part of an extremely small group of exceptions.