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Robocalls are starting to come in again, a clear sign that India is re-opening their economy.

Public school teacher shared a seriously interesting story with Krakatollah when he came into her store on Friday.

"With my school closed, I've really enjoyed the online teaching and here's why," he said.

"I have good students and lazy students during the year. With the kids at home, the good students continue to do their work and get good grades and the lazy students continue to get zeros because they don't do the work."

He continued, "During the year, parents complain to me about their kids getting failing grades or zeroes on their work, telling it has to be my fault for how I run the class."

"Now, with the kids in class at home the same ones are failing or flat not turning in assignments and the parents have stopped blaming it on me, I've gotten zero accusations from parents."

"I'm hoping this will be eye-opening for parents, but I'm not too optimistic."

Which movie best describes government and public response to the COVID pandemic?

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 10:10 pm https://news.yahoo.com/trans-woman-sets ... 17596.html

Trans woman sex worker sets self on fire to protest loss of income from quarantine.

The disruption to society is now complete.

Marketing ploy, his customers said he wasn't hot enough.

Fear-based news stories prey on the anxieties we all have and then hold us hostage. Being glued to the television, reading the paper, or surfing the Internet increases ratings and market shares — but it also raises the probability of depression relapse.

In previous decades, the journalistic mission was to report the news as it actually happened, with fairness, balance, and integrity. However, capitalistic motives associated with journalism have forced much of today's television news to look to the spectacular, the stirring, and the controversial as news stories. It's no longer a race to break the story first or get the facts right. Instead, it's to acquire good ratings in order to get advertisers, so that profits soar.

News programming uses a hierarchy of if it bleeds, it leads. Fear-based news programming has two aims. The first is to grab the viewer's attention. In the news media, this is called the teaser. The second aim is to persuade the viewer that the solution for reducing the identified fear will be in the news story. If a teaser asks, "What's in your tap water that YOU need to know about?" a viewer will likely tune in to get the up-to-date information to ensure safety.

Consider limiting your exposure to media. Give yourself a set time once or twice a day to check in on local and global happenings.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ased-media

From Psychology Today, the dangers of watching too much news.
If It Bleeds It Leads: Understanding Fear-Based Media
Fear-based news stories prey on the anxieties we all have and then hold us hostage. Being glued to the television, reading the paper, or surfing the Internet increases ratings and market shares — but it also raises the probability of depression relapse.

Good read that confirms what many of us know or suspected:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ased-media

Positive results from the Kung Flu:
1. Robocalls from India have stopped.
2. Families are spending time together. Children may even start to expect daily walks with their families.
3. Wearing masks is now socially acceptable and can confound or delay government implementation of facial recognition survelliance technology deployment.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that Hidalgo paints herself as a champion of the downtrodden yet announces an edict that may punish those who can least afford it?
If the Child Judge's mandatory mask order for Harris County were enforced, it would then play directly in her 'police oppression of minorities' narrative. IMHO, many of the people I see in the grocery store or parks who are ignoring social distancing in parks are people of color who appear to be of a low income demographic. Now if tickets with the $1000 fine were given out indiscriminately it could easily be twisted into discrimination.
More odd is if it's an edict to make us all safer and violations are egregious to require such a punitive fine, why is she waiting another five days before implementing?

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) admitted that she and her progressive colleagues have been blocking legislation aimed at providing relief to small business workers in order to hold on to political leverage.​​​
https://www.theblaze.com/news/progressi ... y-leverage

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Adding to the worries of some (and some are getting seriously triggered by this pic of most any patio table near the Gulf coast):