Um, if you’re waiting for a hardcore vaccine mandate before you think schools should reopen, they would never reopen. This is the US. Not happening.

This.

https://www.vulture.com/2009/10/bronson_pinchot_elaborates_on.html

Also, check this out:

I see it as more realistic than defeatist. We only ever stood a chance if everyone without fail had done what had to be done from the beginning, and from the beginning at least 30% of the US population was a lost cause in terms of political beliefs, conspiracy theories, denialism, etc. Oh, and Trump was in power. So…

I feel like “cancellation” only directly concerns 2 categories of people: the outraged who want someone cancelled for life, and the right wing idiots who equate all criticism to “cancellation” and think they’re being silenced. Meanwhile, the rest of the world looks on, rolling their eyes at the two extremes duking it…

Right. And then they reopen once everyone’s isolated. Though they shouldn’t be closing entire schools, just the individual classes with infected students. That’s what they do at the school my sister teaches at (not in the US). It’s not ideal but way better than shutting schools for months on end with bullshit virtual…

Look at China. They had mandatory, repressive measures from the beginning and they’re still placing entire cities under mandatory lockdowns and sending in the military to make sure people comply. And still, the minute those restrictions cease cases skyrocket.

First of all, southern hemishpere, so the school year is different and our fall is their spring. But also I think Australia had trouble getting enough vaccines for a while. They shut down their borders completely (and even left their citizens stranded all over the world), so their case load was low, so they weren’t…

The end in sight just might be omicron, if you follow the studies coming out of Europe. The Danish Fauci thinks omicron’s high infectiousness might be what leads to the sort of herd immunity that lets us gradually go back to normal.

My sister is also a schoolteacher and she supports schools staying open. She’s not in the US, mind you. But still. She supports schools staying open because she saw first hand with her own kids that the virtual option is bullshit and that kids suffer immensely when they’re not in school. She’s already had covid as…

You might be technically right. But stopping the world and living at home and shutting down schools and restaurants and events for 5, 10 years or however long it might take for you and people like you to feel comfortable with the risk and to feel like we know what we need to know long-term to be able to go back to…

Sure, anything’s possible but one has a reputation for being an arrogant jerk (Denzel) while the other is well liked and respected by her colleagues and boss Shonda Rimes, who doesn’t suffer fools.

Exactly. Feminism isn’t - and should never be - supporting women at all cost because they’re women, regardless of their actions. The Kardashians are interesting because it’s hard to tell if they’re a symptom, or one of the causes of a lot of what is wrong with social media and celebrity culture. As much as I can’t…

That’s exactly how I read it. He has a reputation for being a dick to women on set and elsewhere. I think the author of this piece can’t see past her dislike of Ellen Pompeo to realize Denzel’s statement isn’t the burn she thinks she is.

I don’t think feminism means what you think it means...

No it’s true. I think he’s talked about being the awkward fat kid growing up, except that experience, instead of making him better, kind of made him an asshole now that he’s hot, rich and famous.

She’s gotten better over time, I find but yeah sometimes I kind of want to slap her. But other than Ottolenghi and maybe Samin Nosrat but she’s less prolific, I can’t think of anyone else whose recipes I make more often than Roman’s. I could live on the fennel, chile and anchovy oil from her tomato salad recipe.

Haha sorry!! Though in Steve’s case it’s the combination of voice and his weasley, passive aggressive character that makes it worse.

I know, it’s unfortunate. I have a hard time watching him in anything.