Gen Z Parents : Help Us, You’re Our Only Hope!

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The editorial powers that be asked me to throw together a resource for parents facing “back to school” in the post-COVID-19 world. This is a post on home-schooling and remote education resources for parents raising mostly K-12 kids. It’s not much, but it’s what little I can do.

Parents should take education into their own hands, even before COVID-19

Even though we sent our kids through public school, we homeschooled them as if they weren’t attending. That’s because the public school system in the US is so gutted, so hostile to intelligence, such a Babylon of pseudo-learning idolatry, that I have to wonder if it does more harm than good.

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I dunno, it’s like US schools had some other focus besides learning. I can’t quite put my finger on it though. It’s on the tip of my tongue.

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Maybe I’ll recall what it is…

In case you missed it (because who even checks by this dead blog to begin with?), I also covered freelance writing in a post-COVID-19 world. So there, you have your school covered and your work covered, all off-grid. Call us when we get a government that’s interested in doing anything for people again.

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Schools are turning into incubators for COVID-19 when they’ve barely reopened yet:

This is just a dip into the latest news stories. This is still August. August! Classes haven’t been open long enough for kids to not care about Labor Day yet, they’re already swamped with COVID-19 cases. By the way, the NYT really urgently wants you to know that they have a Coronavirus School Briefing newsletter you can sign up for.

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Plague Inc. will not help you understand the COVID-19 crisis

Fitfully trying to find out what all the hype was about, I tried out the mobile Android game Plague Inc. That didn’t help. This is allegedly – I am not making this up – a game the CDC is considering to be a valuable education tool in helping people understand how a pandemic works. It is riddled with scientific inaccuracies. Not just shortcuts to make the game fun, but gratuitous, grossly anti-science mechanics that go against everything we know about people or viruses. I explain all of that and then some in my review of Plague Inc.

That’s life in 2020. Even the video games are depressing disasters.

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Remember that vaping lung illness epidemic? That’s still happening too.

After all this time with COVID-19 blowing every other health story off the news circuit, the fake THC vape cart epidemic is still ongoing. Over at my DabConnection gig, it’s no longer a question of ferreting out the fake carts. It’s now a question of picking which ones to cover. Recently:

That’s just over a week’s time. Chinese wholesalers like DHGate and Alibaba (both owned by Alibaba) have blatant empty vape cart packaging for sale, in both fake brand labels and knockoffs of real brands. They don’t care, they’ll make anything into a vape cart. There’s even whole websites like vapes-wholesale that exclusively sell empty packaging.

Let me make this clear: You buy these for pennies per unit, fill them at your kitchen sink with any poison you have handy – dishwashing liquid, shampoo, motor oil, whatever – then tell people that this is cannabis concentrate, and sell it to them for $30+ each. And they will vape them and come back for more! After a while you can tell them it’s actually STP 10-W-30 and they won’t care, they’ll keep paying you $30 each anyway!

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This has been confirmed countless times in forums. There’s a whole nationwide movement to reject licensed and regulated marijuana and vape synthetics, cut, and filler instead. It doesn’t even get you high, it just kills you. They vape this, drop dead or get hospitalized in the thousands, and then make fun of the people who actually want to inhale real pot.

This proves that the push to vote to legalize weed was never about legalizing weed. It was just one more way to burn the country down. Actual pot crops are all but starving right now. You can’t get vapers to vape real cannabis if you give it away. They want to vape vitamin E oil into their lungs and die, period.

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America is letting the Midwest die so it can cut off its own food supply and starve to death

I don’t mean to put such a negative spin on things, it’s just that I figure I’d better start keeping up with the times. You have to assume 50% more past what you would have called “assuming the worst” and then you end up right about at the midline of what actually happens. So, remember that Derecho storm I blogged (and lived through) last week? Well, 90% of the territory that suffered the brunt of that storm are still fucked and getting fuckeder.

Meanwhile the state government and the federal government are both collectively telling these people so far to get stuffed.

We need to get this news outside the little Iowa echo chamber. We’re walled into this media bubble where if it happens in the Midwest, the rest of the country doesn’t care. We’re seeing the identical problem that Puerto Rico had with hurricane Maria in 2017; the rest of the country refused to think of Puerto Rico as part of the united States.

So, to the rest of America: You may not now care about the fact that we’re knocked back to the stone age out here, but consider:

  • This is the whitest, most football-watching part of the country.
  • Highest church attendance in the country.
  • Not only Iowa got hit, but Chicago and parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana too.
  • The corn and soybean crops got wiped out. You may think that’s “somebody else’s problem” but it’s about to become everybody’s problem at the supermarket trying to buy food in a few months.

There, does *THAT* convince you that Iowa matters? We’re not just the state that ruins the election every four years. We share honors with Florida for that.

Is America dying or is it being born again?

Jesus, what a crap week!

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Author: Penguin Pete

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