31 Mar 20
@eladar said18 years old is a child?
@AThousandYoung
How likely is it that an 18 year old minority child will actually get sick enough to be hospitalized?
Does that make George Zimmerman a child killer?
31 Mar 20
@athousandyoung saidDefending himself? OK 15 year old child.
18 years old is a child?
Does that make George Zimmerman a child killer?
The answer is not likely. As a matter of fact, it is very rare.
If they are smart, the government will help to evacuate the elderly inner city people to quarantined regions outside the city.
31 Mar 20
@eladar saidThere's 49 million people in the US over the age of 65.
Defending himself? OK 15 year old child.
The answer is not likely. As a matter of fact, it is very rare.
If they are smart, the government will help to evacuate the elderly inner city people to quarantined regions outside the city.
Where are you going to move them all to?
31 Mar 20
@no1marauder saidAll the ones in the bad areas? Yes
There's 49 million people in the US over the age of 65.
Where are you going to move them all to?
It would be less expensive than what we are doing now.
31 Mar 20
@eladar saidIt would be physically impossible and useless. What are "bad areas" now are a mere preview of what the situation is likely to be nationwide in a week or so; the virus has already spread.
All the ones in the bad areas? Yes
It would be less expensive than what we are doing now.
31 Mar 20
@no1marauder saidWe will see. This is a large country with lots of wide open spaces.
It would be physically impossible and useless. What are "bad areas" now are a mere preview of what the situation is likely to be nationwide in a week or so; the virus has already spread.
31 Mar 20
@eladar saidUSA will be a "bad area" by end of April.
All the ones in the bad areas? Yes
It would be less expensive than what we are doing now.
31 Mar 20
@eladar saidYou'll need a lot of tents!
We will see. This is a large country with lots of wide open spaces.
@kevcvs57 saidYou do see little pockets of solution that seem to grow up around random people who stick it out in difficult areas and provide settings with a secure base for Young people to get attached to. These people can make a real difference.
Because there always is a solution to social problems.
Human societies are human constructs if it’s dysfunctional you tweak it until it is functional. There may be no easy answer though and you have to really want solve the problem, but there always a solution.
Social mobility has had a strange impact since the successful children of troubled areas understandably leave. Where the woman down the road who would keep an eye out for your kids and pass down parenting skills even though you were not her own, used to be an important resource it was more likely to be her offspring who moved on and got out where historically communities kept their resources. To my way of thinking when social services pay for family support workers it is like spending money to return resources that left!
I think real hope of legitimate employment versus no realistic hope of progressing that way will also always be a key issue.
31 Mar 20
@petewxyz saidWell they say “It takes a village to raise a child” and unfortunately we don’t really have organic villages any longer they disappeared along with the big community based industries like coal, cotton and shipbuilding etc. Maybe we should put more effort into recreating them with proper funding for community building initiatives. Wider society or market forces ( whatever name you give them ) has always cherry picked the ableist and brightest out of these communities, in my day it was the 11+ which took the brightest, or best at exams, away to gramma school. Whilst a good thing for the individual it relegated the secondary modern and comprehensives to low expectation hot spots, whilst the gramma school kids were handed UCCA forms the ‘boys’ in my class got taken to a local sign making factory for a glimpse of what we should be aspiring to.
You do see little pockets of solution that seem to grow up around random people who stick it out in difficult areas and provide settings with a secure base for Young people to get attached to. These people can make a real difference.
Social mobility has had a strange impact since the successful children of troubled areas understandably leave. Where the woman down the roa ...[text shortened]... itimate employment versus no realistic hope of progressing that way will also always be a key issue.
Learning to Labour by Paul Willis gives a in depth view of the process.