BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Dilbert_X wrote:

Yeah sorry, I don't need to go back and refer to what Aristotle said and to whom at 3:23pm on the 5th of April 329BC

If honest, this gives me some insight into your aversion to history. It's very student-level frustration, against the rote memorization of names and dates. At that point in education, school history should be presented as a more human story that connects the past with the present rather than abused as a checklist for test scores. The tests themselves should be short and fill-in-the-blank, and the focus should mainly be on ideas and experiences. Few people apart from didactic triviologists are going to retain a vast recollection of a thousand old personal planners and pinpoint timelines.

It's sad that you're still at that level though. At this point in time nobody to blame but yourself.

e: Lots of older folks I talk to who still have some working knowledge of the subject are comfortable with the when and the how, but stumble on the why. Probably a contributor to ongoing support for the Confederacy.

School history is taught using Document Based Questions.

In American Advanced Placement exams, a document-based question (DBQ), also known as data-based question, is an essay or series of short-answer questions that is constructed by students using one's own knowledge combined with support from several provided sources. Usually, it is employed on timed history tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document-based_question

Basically reading primary or secondary sources and then being able to (on the low level) point out specific facts and (on the high level) use those facts to form arguments and understand largely themes.

I recall "fill in the blanks" sections to be the exception in tests full of multiple choice. Some of my old AP assignments from the 90s are probably still in storage. I might look them up if I ever want to be demoralized by yellowed paper and facepalm high-schooler reasoning.

I'm just in awe that you're discussing the post-war era in March. In most of my pre-college history classes, we hit WWII around June and quickly glossed over the latter half of the 20th century. I don't envy you, though. The smallest statements challenging the 'Murica^TM orthodoxy would probably get you labelled a baby-eating socialist by a number of ignorant parents.

I do know a nut who wears a guy fawkes t-shirt and is convinced covid is a hoax designed to promote obedience amongst the sheeple.

Keep us updated on how well your brain's DNA gets integrated into the 5G network.

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America is doing good with vaccinations. 25% of all Americans have had at least one shot. 3 cheers for checks notes decentralized for profit healthcare?

I know a few people who have lied to get their vaccine. Privilege at its finest.

Hopefully I can avoid getting sick for as long as it takes until it's "my phase." I've avoided it for this long, although some people I'm in-person contact with (out of necessity for my job) are less than cautious (and poo-poo my admonishments) so things could change literally overnight.

How do you justify getting into a job huddle with no distancing and no masks and then everybody goes home to their wives and kids, it makes no sense to me.

I would prefer making it to 2022 without severe organ damage or death.

Just come to NJ. Smokers are on the list of people who are allowed to get vaccinated.

You get the vaccine so you don't spread it to people who are in danger if they contract it...

My arm is sore in the spot I got the shot. I accidentally laid on the arm and now it hurts like hell.