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Potential Unintended Consequences for Progressive Minded People that Have Forced and Prolonged the Shut-Down
Vanity | 5/17/20 | Week71

Posted on 05/17/2020 11:46:41 AM PDT by week 71

What many whom in some ways see political advantages to Prolonging the Shut down may not have considered:

1. Americans have realized they can work from home. Potential max exodus from urban areas where people are easier to control. Housing boom in suburban and rural areas as professionals leave crowded urban areas prone to public transportation and spread of contagions and higher crime. 2. Students are not being indoctrinated with the socialist propaganda at many government schools - Many families discover they actually like teaching their own children or would prefer private schools. 3. Due to federalist principles being executed from the POTUS, people see states that are thriving and vote their oppressive Progressive Representatives, Senators and Governors out.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: consequences; coronavanity; shutdown
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I think you’re right. I have talked to people who say the supply chain - not only in food but in a lot of important daily things - is completely broken and some places are already having shortages. Production has been stopped, shipping has been stopped, and of course the markets have been shut down. No restaurants, no airlines, no hotels, no hospitals...so no markets.

Hope you’re wrong, but Trump has got to get working on this.


21 posted on 05/17/2020 12:38:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: datricker

There are a good number of graduate and undergraduate degree programs on line. Hamline Law School has an ABA accredited law school that is taught mostly on-line.

One can get a degree in many majors from the University of Maine, Augusta without going to a college campus.
Some science courses require labs-easy solution: require students to attend an intense lab course for a week or so each semester.


22 posted on 05/17/2020 1:07:44 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

why do you say that?


23 posted on 05/17/2020 1:09:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: datricker

there are already testing centers nationwide, that provide tests for every thing from licensure up.


24 posted on 05/17/2020 1:12:22 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: nomorelurker; All
As to food shortages, No hoarding, melodrama or hysteria in our house. I have faith that American free market entrepreneurs will deal with this .

The “sky is falling,” nervous-nellies are free to fill up their freezers just as the assholes bought pallets of asswipe.

25 posted on 05/17/2020 1:34:34 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: week 71

People who like walking and biking to the store and want to live close to schools and hospitals are NOT going to relocate to rural farms with chores and a two hour drive to a major urban center. But they will be much more willing to move to the suburbs.


26 posted on 05/17/2020 1:36:13 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: frogjerk

When progressives use the phrase “question science,” what they mean is that no one should question the leftist politicization of science.

They see science not as a method of observation and investigation, but as a belief system that it is blasphemy to “deny,” at least when its conclusions conform to their agenda. Leftists are perfectly comfortable denying science – basic biology, for example – when it doesn’t suit their political needs.


27 posted on 05/17/2020 1:37:45 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

True. The leftists deny the biology of male and female as they push the transsexual agenda.


28 posted on 05/17/2020 2:05:02 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: week 71

It’s backfiring on them, and the only thing they can think of is to crack down harder.

This is an old left-wing strategy known as “bottom up, top down.” You create the circumstances that will create an uprising for the purpose of cracking down on it so you can get closer to absolute power. And THAT is the ONLY thing any liberal actually cares about.


29 posted on 05/17/2020 2:08:25 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: tbw2

Agree- I live in the burbs myself. Not experienced in rural life.


30 posted on 05/17/2020 2:16:15 PM PDT by week 71
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To: week 71

The wealthy commie wannabe business owners and university good tyme rock and rollers are going broke. That means there is no cash to further propagate their favorite commie wannabe politicos and their stupid worn out commie ideas!:-)


31 posted on 05/17/2020 2:37:37 PM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: datricker

I saw a poll that 40% of parents are viewing home schooling more favorably. Home schooling is not for everyone, indeed not for most. The same with on-line classes at the college level. There will always be a place for institutionalized teaching.

Many of those in the lower third economically lack a sufficient internet connection to facilitate video classes. But home schooling will get a big boost in the fall as more middle class parents are able to work from home and they have now seen the lack of quality of a public school education. If group activities such as sports, band and theater get cut from the schools, they will have even less reason to send their kids to a public school.

So will home schooling in the fall increase by 40% or 400%? I haven’t a clue. But the school administrators will be even more surprised. They won’t see this coming until they start fall enrollments.


32 posted on 05/17/2020 4:10:36 PM PDT by Qout
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To: nomorelurker

Take a look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inur-e-SscI


33 posted on 05/17/2020 6:19:09 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Qout

A lot of middle-class parents won’t have jobs to go back to in the fall … giving them a lot more time to “home school”.


34 posted on 05/17/2020 6:21:15 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: datricker
Re: Sports, orchestra, band, cheer-leading, art, theater..etc.

Turn all if over to the county departments of recreation. Why do we need very expensive government schools for this?

35 posted on 05/17/2020 6:25:41 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: datricker
Nearly free education exists now. The only ingredient missing is credentialing.

Even in the professions, most of the material is rote and changes little from year to year. Obviously, laboratory and clinical rotation experience require brick and mortar but the rest doesn't.

It shouldn't cost a quarter of a million to become a physician. With reliable credentialing of material mastered $25,000 is completely possible.

36 posted on 05/17/2020 6:30:55 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: week 71

Niel Ferguson actually has a HISTORY of sky high death estimates.

His projections led to millions of British livestock killed due to hoof and mouth disease projections. And it turned out inspectors were spreading it through unsterilized shoes.

He predicted up to fifty thousand dead from mad cow disease.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/09/research.highereducation

He predicted up to 200 million dead from bird flu. Note that’s worse than the Wuhan virus and they still didn’t lock everything down.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke


37 posted on 05/19/2020 7:46:05 AM PDT by tbw2
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