Sal Khan of Lhan Academy is brilliant! He thinks outside the box. If we can't let all the kids pile into classrooms in schools and if 5% don't have access to electronic classes, why not let the 5% go to the schoolhouse just to use the machines, masked and sitting six feet apart because there are fewer of them? They can get food, maybe social interventions if they are in trouble at home, and someone interested in their specific personal welfare in a way not even always present for home-schooled kids with electronic access. We already did something like this via our community library.
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In Portland where people are coming in from Washington and California to celebrate risky defiance and then leave, Covid-19 will enter the demographics to snuff the most inclined to violence and defiance. Death is never pleasant, but it is always inevitable, and the dice are loaded for those who go looking for trouble. Fewer of such folks may mean less trouble.
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As soon as troublemakers can see that blame is settling on someone (Trump) or someplace (Portland) they take advantage to escape. Even when I was an animal control deputy officer fifty years ago, bad actors would come in from Washington state or Clackamas County, make trouble and quickly retreat back across the border so they couldn't be found. This is a technique as old as borders and notorious along the 49th parallel where the border was called "The Medicine Line."
But currently Trump is so clearly doomed that a lot of acts that are by far too clever for him to dream up have been assumed to come from him. This may be one reason why he's not just impeached and removed, since the evil people riding on his shirt tails would remain. They have no reason to do anything other than promote their schemes and let Trump -- who's doomed anyway -- take the blame. The importance of the election is that it will remove ALL or most of the criminal minds at once.
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