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posted by martyb on Sunday August 09 2020, @12:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the freedumbs? dept.

Pupils who shared photos of packed corridor of maskless Georgia students suspended:

At least two high school students in Georgia have allegedly been suspended after sharing a video of school hallway crowded with largely maskless students, according to reports.

North Paulding High School in Dallas went viral after it reopened on Monday when two students shared photos of the school corridors with apparently no social distancing and barely any wearing masks.

Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott reportedly released a statement saying that the images were taken out of context, that masks were a personal choice for students and reopening was in line with Georgia Department of Education's health recommendations.

[...] "Students are in this hallway environment for just a brief period as they move to their next class. ... There is no question that the photo does not look good," Mr Otott said according to CNN.

"Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them."

Following the alleged suspension 15-year-old Hannah Watters who posted one of the photos and a video on Twitter told Buzzfeed News she received a five-day, out-of-school suspension for posting one photo and one video on Twitter.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:45PM (4 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Sunday August 09 2020, @02:45PM (#1033829) Journal

    Well said, mask or no mask says a lot about your overall belief structure, who you trust, and the kids do not trust cnn. Neither do I.

    https://files.catbox.moe/r3amzg.png [catbox.moe]
    https://archive.is/6scro [archive.is] (same take your pick where you look, just a good rundown)

    But in information warfare, that can be a weapon. Put the truth out over some platform that usually lies, then your lemmings are saved and your disbelievers die off.

    I remember when Ryan White got aids in the 80s, he tried school from home over early teleconferencing and he hated it.

    Now people are begging for it.

    Fun fact, last I heard if you have ever been diagnosed with cv, you are disbarred from joining the military. With 50% false positives and any coronavirus counting as The coronavirus, the confusion is so great, I think that is what the kids are revolting at.

    The know some of this is bullshit, so they are calling our bluff.

    And like the climate protestor sign said, "why should we go to school if you wont trust the educated."

    And it is quite difficult to concnetrate on learning algebra that may help you in ten years, if you are overwhelmed with personal safety decisions in the present tense. The kids are making a herd decision like they do, and no one is listening.

    And the person just pointing out that fact is the witch burned at the stake, and all this person did was witness the truth.

    That is what alarms me about this. The person who tried to speak out and say something about this whole scene is broken, was the only one that was disciplined.

    That is not free speech, that is not science, that is just blind authoritarianism to shut down the troublemaker and if that is the future of America, the entire experiment has failed.

    Speaking of which,
    thesesystemsarefailing.net/ (a domain I will soon lose as no one has contributed to my work, you think ideas and knowledge just should appear for free around here all of the time, and have no interested a movement to change anything, you just enjoy commenting from the upper decks as the titanic fills with icy water, or in this case, bullshit)

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @04:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @04:42PM (#1033873)

    Did prices for .net domains go up?

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2020, @05:47PM (#1033907)

    Speaking of which,
    thesesystemsarefailing.net/ (a domain I will soon lose as no one has contributed to my work, you think ideas and knowledge just should appear for free around here all of the time, and have no interested a movement to change anything, you just enjoy commenting from the upper decks as the titanic fills with icy water, or in this case, bullshit)

    SN has no difficulty obtaining donations. Whenever they ask, people are more than willing to be generous. It's because they see SN as providing something of value to them. If you aren't getting contributions, perhaps you should reconsider whether your ideas have merit or if you're presenting them in a way that's useful.

    The actual reason students aren't wearing masks likely has to do with social pressure. If nobody else is wearing a mask, being the one person who is will make you an outlier. Particularly at that age, students are likely to make decisions based on instant social gratification instead of the logical decision to mitigate risk. This is the same reason college students attend frat parties even though there's a high risk of the virus spreading in that setting. It's not a distrust of CNN but the natural biological tendency to make illogical decisions at that age.

    I agree that the administration shouldn't have punished the student for sharing the photos. It seems more likely it's an attempt to intimidate others who might speak out. They're in cover your ass mode and are under heavy political pressure from state government officials who want to prioritize reopening at any cost and are unwilling to insist on safety measures that will reduce the spread of the virus. A competent administration would reach out to responsible students who are in leadership positions or have the ability to disproportionately influence other students. Ask these popular students to wear masks and to politely encourage others to do so. You'll probably get far more compliance that way.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @06:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @06:55AM (#1034242)

    Speaking of which,
    thesesystemsarefailing.net/ (a domain I will soon lose as no one has contributed to my work, you think ideas and knowledge just should appear for free around here all of the time, and have no interested a movement to change anything, you just enjoy commenting from the upper decks as the titanic fills with icy water, or in this case, bullshit)

    With all due respect to you and your efforts, which seem genuine, it is also shouting into the void. Without serious efforts to create community, without deeper insights than homeless people living next to nice beds, your site is just a platform for shouting. That is fine, but you can't expect anyone here to be excited by that shouting when there is a metric ton of it out there and this community isn't the meme generating sort of community.

    I try to follow a large variety of views in my area of interest, economics, listening to heterodoxy economists like Marxists and Austrians as well as main stream economists, investors, etc. I have a much richer understanding of how the federal reserve works, I knew about MMT years before it became common, I understand the theory behind the relationship between interest rates and housing prices. The key is that I want to gain insights deeper than level 1. (aside: Pick your system, Kegan, Dreyfus, whatever and then try to rate your content and the skill of putting it together vs the content of those you respect most highly and compare the difference). Over time I have expanded my knowledge into related subjects and created a more systematized world view, but that is probably nearer level 4+.

    All your meme pictures are meant for level 1 or just barely 2 and while that might have made sense a decade ago when these insights were fresh, but they are just dog whistles now. So either find/build a community from it or move up the chain of value to level 2 or 3. It will limit your audience, but those will be the people who are excited enough to contribute anyway. What would that look like? That might be interviewing Christopher Hedges (an examplar of a leftist climate change, socialist, spiritual revivalist, anti-war deep commentator) or Noam Chomsky, it might be long form essays on inverted totalitarianism or it might be photos of you at various rallies or tied to a tree trying to prevent oil pipelines from coming in. Or if you were more rightist, it could be about you starting businesses, protesting the BLM folks, showing how the left has taken over academics, citing or interviewing folks like Jordan Peterson (one of the intellectual dark web), Jonah Goldberg (Author of Suicide of the West) or Ron Paul (pro gold standard) perhaps. Etc. You will note the folks I cite are much deeper than just a graph showing how the social system causes people to feel isolated and atomized, with no obvious reasons for why or what to do about it besides scroll and look at another thematically related picture on some other anti-system subject.

    As for community engagement, to cite an example, I started a discussion on this site about how to design a more perfect forum system that handled particular attributes. I don't know if it actually impacted this community the way I had hoped, but the discussion is still available to read and just as relevant today, including around community building: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/07/18/0821234 [soylentnews.org] In my head this was a level 3+ discussion, about how to seriously architect desired behaviors while maintaining a free and open system. Even in that discussion I got called a troll, so don't expect community management to be easy, even if you can create a community.

    I wrote all this not to be critical but to give you meaningful ways to level yourself and your work up if you want to. Best of luck, JCD

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2020, @11:28AM (#1034282)

    last I heard if you have ever been diagnosed with cv, you are disbarred from joining the military. With 50% false positives and any coronavirus counting as The coronavirus

    Where did you hear that BS? This sounds like some weirdo fake news than reality. On both counts. Actually all 3 counts. 50% false positive is a useless test. 50% false negative is a different thing completely, so don't confuse this in your head.