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Maybe's avatar

Viruses do not make moral or bigoted judgments. (Repubs do it a lot!)

Vaccinate the most vulnerable and those most likely to catch/spread COVID. Teachers fall into the latter group.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Wow. Yeah, round trip was over 2 hours for me too, so I feel sorry for your relatives.

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Skepti-KC's avatar

Sagan is one of my absolutely adored HEROES.

The man was...an incredible genius and one HELLUVA human being.

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bobbseytwin's avatar

Teachers are de facto babysitters so parents can go to work. How people can't draw that conclusion and see the economic impact are willfully obtuse.

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John Iwaniszek's avatar

Jesus H Christ. If you want your damn kids back in school, then for god's sake vaccinate the teachers and staff. Otherwise you will be killing teachers and shutting the schools back down again.

IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.

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It's Just Toomush's avatar

You know, if you can't be upfront with your tailor, who can you be? My grandfather was a tailor. And a good one. He would have appreciated this phone call, and not found it out of the ordinary...

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Skepti-KC's avatar

What small kindness is this? Joy!

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vorpal's avatar

I love that pic of Jen...

That is all

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John Iwaniszek's avatar

And give them extra help with their NEW jobs, Mask Attendant and Classroom Sanitizer.

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Bageled Mind Virus's avatar

I started reading textbooks on cancer after my mother died of uterine cancer and that was one of the points that stood out for me as well.

and the whole process of metastasis is both fascinating and terrifying at the same time.

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cmd RadicalLIBRaphaelWarnock's avatar

He's probably running down a hot Dr. Seuss story.

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JCfromNC's avatar

I'm right there with LBJ. On the pockets thing, that is. I hate shallow pockets.

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Some Kat On The Internet's avatar

The five minute break on the Jan six hearing is over and back on CSPAN 3

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((( Augustus )))'s avatar

BUT MAH VIRTUE SIGNALLING

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Cincinnatus's avatar

I'm with him on the bunghole issue.

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Random's avatar

How ugly? Battlefield Earth ugly? God's Not Dead ugly?

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