You said unschooling had a big impact on your life. Do you think it was positive or negative on net?
If you had kids of your own, would you unschool them, homeschool them, or do something else?
What differences have you noticed between yourself and non-unschooled peers?
I really like this idea. I’m not able to participate this year for medical reasons, but would like to in the future.
Making your risk tolerance more customizable would be helpful. My policy with microcovid from the very beginning has been to look at the numbers and basically ignore the “high risk / medium risk” designations, because they don’t match my risk tolerance and that divergence has only increased over the course of the pandemic (now that I’m vaccinated, 1 uCov is less costly because it carries less risk with it).
What form of zinc are you suggesting people take?
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I notice this one came out in May (and the comments are from then too). It would be nice to see a post along these lines that’s post-Delta.
I think you’re missing another big factor here: being within 3 feet of a single person for 2 hours is VERY different from being within 3 feet of a different single person, every 5 minutes, for 2 hours. I believe microCOVID actually maxes out the risk of catching COVID from a single person in less than that amount of time.
Wow. I found this hard to believe so I looked it up, and indeed:
Mental health conditions
Having mood disorders, including depression, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders can make you more likely to get severely ill from COVID-19.
It’s also important to avoid bad shoulder advisors. I’ve spent several years trying to reduce the influence of miniature copies of abusive family members on my thinking.
EDIT: The most effective counter I’ve found for this is to 1) Notice that the thought I just had is actually coming from a bad source, 2) Remind myself that that person wanted me to believe/act that way for selfish and narcissistic reasons, and I shouldn’t take their advice for the same reason I wouldn’t take moral suggestions from people who go around kicking puppies.
Why not both?
Beeminder has a mode that lets you have a goal with no punishment. You have to pay for their highest-tier monthly subscription, though ($24/mo IIRC).
+1, I had a similar experience when living upstate in a place that was “an hour+”. I did visit the city a few times, but it was a pretty big hassle. Definitely try out the exact commute before drawing conclusions.
Welp. I lose points on this one https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-05/google-relaxes-work-from-home-rules-to-let-more-staff-be-remote
Wasn’t expecting them to bend but it seems they are after all.
Fair. I was also debating between 5-10%.
I have some inside information on this as an ex-Alphabet employee; I have a strong impression that execs do not want to do this. Employees were clamoring for a policy statement on this for months and they hemmed, hawed, dodged the question, delayed for months, and ultimately refused.
New strains could delay things more, but I would be surprised if they don’t ultimately make people go back to the office as soon as they reasonably can. Presence in Mountain View or occasionally other offices is one of the few places where employees really want something and Alphabet execs, historically, have drawn a fairly hard line that they can’t have it.
21. Google widely allows remote work, no questions asked: 20%
I don’t know about the situation at Google but assuming they currently still do this I think it’s more likely than this that they keep doing it. If this is a blind prediction and Scott knows nothing I don’t know, I’d buy to 30%.
Easy money. If this were a month ago I wouldn’t be quite as sure, but Google has outright said they will not do this: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html
Our current house rules are:
* Fully vaccinated people are “invisible”, at least in small groups—they can come over and you can interact with them indoors freely.
* Gatherings where EVERY person is at least 2 weeks past the first dose, and it’s small enough to verify this, are fine.
The rationale for rule #2 is: the numbers I’ve seen seem to roughly suggest that a fully vaccinated person interacting with an unvaccinated person has about the same transmission risk (~5%) as two people who are both two weeks past the first dose (20% * 20%).
Sticking with outdoor socialization for now, especially with people you don’t know or can’t verify the vaccine status of, seems like a pretty good idea. I expect we’ll need to have more conversations about this once larger indoor gatherings seem like they might make sense.
Both the child and parents can face legal consequences if they do this unilaterally. I found this by googling “usa truancy laws”: https://www.findlaw.com/education/student-conduct-and-discipline/truancy-sample-state-laws.html
But there are some ways around this, e.g. signing your kid up for “home schooling” (this may be difficult and require your kid to take tests, depending on your state), switching to a private school, convincing the school that the student’s absence should be excused, etc. For “why aren’t they doing it”: bad reasons, see the rest of this post.