bungalow233b

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We moved to a suburb and picked a home specifically for the great elementary school, but our kid was an infant. By the time he was ready for Kindergarten, the school had been re-zoned and "multi family" housing had surged. Kindergarten class had 11 different dialects. It was now the most transient school in the entire system. Thank allah for open enrollment, we moved the kid to a better school.

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Did all the administrators and teachers move in those 4-5 years? You didn’t mention any metric or quantification of “great elementary school”, so it’s hard to understand why you left the school. I know all the new school “ranking” sites use graduation rate and test scores as qualitative metrics but those are laughably bad measures of quality. All test scores and graduation rates predict is the income of the parents of the schools. What you need to look at is the difference in graduation rate and test scores for your child’s base test score and your income bracket. That is where you find the value in schools. Too often parents blindly look at a school’s mean graduation rate and test scores and write off a school. They then enroll their child in a school, while having higher mean values for those metrics, actually performs worse at improving test scores and graduation rate for your child.

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San Francisco Is The Kindest, Bravest, Warmest, Most Wonderful City...

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Title and link title are blatantly deceptive. This is in East Palo Alto, a city that in the early 90s won the title of Murder Capital of the US.

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It’s not just that. There are leases, exploration, permits to drill, production infrastructure, completions, production, refining, and distribution. It’s a long chain of events to get that drop of gas in your car or the PVC pellets to the plant that makes the vinyl siding or pipe.

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Correct, it is a long chain. So why use all the metrics when one will do? The vast majority of companies are requesting permits because they have those other pieces in place. Why get a drill permit when you don’t have a lease, land that can produce from more drilling, the infrastructure to pull it, a refinery to refine it and the distribution network to sell it? Permits are a measure of orgs that have the chain in place and have the market incentive to do it.

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All this fear, hand wringing, mandates etc... Zero effort to use this as an opportunity to improve individual health, which is already abysmal in this country and the reason we have been so much worse off, supposedly, than many other countries.

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You mean these recommendations? https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html

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Nah. We only need two CFB 30 for 30s right now.

A 30 for 30 on the 08/Urban Meyer Gators.

And then eventually a 5 part (Last Dance type series) on Saban after he hangs it up.

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So we need one

He would have made more coming back and signing some NIL deals.

Because we have the most advanced biotech industry in the world and are not even remotely close to creating designer viruses. If China truly created the virus it is equivalent to when we had nuclear weapons before everyone else.

Biotech weapons are a level above nuclear. Imagine being able to kill your enemies and then just walking into their country without everything on the land destroyed and radiated.

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I'm still not aware of a single hospital system outside of NYC that was ever at risk of being overrun.

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Uhh the origin post shows that masks and social distancing work. Those countries had some of the strictest policies. Their deaths and cases are insanely low.

Atlanta, I know someone that is a nurse in a covid unit. There you have one more.

Your bank has all the information. This is a predictive model that was trying to model the R0 and health impact, while also modeling in people’s movement.

Maybe the thing would have been to wait to understand more about it, but then you risk that the R0 is something around 6 and the death rate is 5-10%. Your hesitation caused millions dead, a complete loss of trust of government. Markets crash, people die, years of recovery to get us back where we are. You’re in this position, what do you do?