Our local school district is going through this right now. Our state is currently lower risk and has what seems to be good, science-based guidance on opening schools (to the degree that anyone does), and our district has low enrollment and high cash reserves so we can take precautions, but there is still a lot of…

It was, as you note, a compromise.

I do not like trucks in general. I do not like the Bronco, then or now, and I stopped liking Jeeps when I was 25. Performance engines leave me cold - I like high mpg and efficiency.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Halle Berry described it that way years ago, and when we had our kids I remembered the line and was like ‘yup. Thats it!’

And please never let my kids cry desperately at my floating, dead corpse as fear overwhelms them and they wonder why I dont answer.

When friends have their first kids and they ask me what its like, I tell them ‘prepare for gut wrenching fear that never ends, but is totally worth it’, because of stuff like this, or worse.

That became clear when I read the whole thing - I just found the particular bit so overwhelmingly hypocritically wrongheaded that I had to note it.

And, we have no common culture from which we all came, as did Greek or Roman culture.

Seconded. Got that for my 10 year old, very white, daughter - we make sure her reading list is balanced - and she loved it.

When I read it I was struck by this:

Hey, repopulate Florida with competent, empathetic residents and a functioning government and it would be lovely!

Nah, we just elect them with alarming regularity thanks to an electoral college system that literally punishes the majority.

Give them care, but allow civil suites.

Except your decision not to wear a mask impacts others moreso than not wearing a seatbelt, unless you are thrown from a vehicle into someone else who is wearing a seatbelt or not in a car to begin with.

Went to a local BLM protest.

These are people who think NPR are biased because they ask hard questions of conservative guests... and liberal ones.

Expected Revenue = Price * Likelihood (of a buyer)

The price is way too high for a curiousity, as opposed to a classic.

Wouldn’t you rather have a beer?