D&D and the rising pandemic

[Umbran]

We've already seen how easy it is to outsource to countries that have lower salaries and no benefits. Just wait until some of the AI systems currently in development come online.

The flip side is that "AI/automation will replace everyone in 20 years" has been a fear for... 40 years or so.

 

[Umbran]

If everyone is screwed would they vote for parties making automation illegal?

That's a great question for a website that focuses on politics. Which this one does not.

 

[Ryujin]

I live in California and it's unfortunate, but none of the schools will even think of shutting down before the upcoming election.

The Toronto Catholic School Board said, straight-up, that they will not be allowing polling stations in their schools for the upcoming Federal Election. That's going to make it pretty tough to find alternates quickly enough, but it's a completely understandable position. You can't have random strangers walking around a school during a pandemic.

 

[billd91]

The Toronto Catholic School Board said, straight-up, that they will not be allowing polling stations in their schools for the upcoming Federal Election. That's going to make it pretty tough to find alternates quickly enough, but it's a completely understandable position. You can't have random strangers walking around a school during a pandemic.

Understandable, but closing polling sites is also a tactic of voter suppression if they don't replace them with readily accessible alternatives. That's been a BIG problem here in the US. Fortunately, absentee voter pushes helped in the last cycle, but there are groups pushing to curtail those as well.

 

[Ryujin]

Understandable, but closing polling sites is also a tactic of voter suppression if they don't replace them with readily accessible alternatives. That's been a BIG problem here in the US. Fortunately, absentee voter pushes helped in the last cycle, but there are groups pushing to curtail those as well.

Sorry, didn't mean to start an aside that's political. More about controlling outbreaks among school aged children.

 

[Umbran]

Sorry, didn't mean to start an aside that's political. More about controlling outbreaks among school aged children.

So, I don't know how it is done in Canada, but in the US, when a school is used as a polling place, the kids are not allowed in the section of the building being used for polling, and the voters are not allowed to just wander around where the students are. There is no mixing to speak of, so it is not an issue for controlling outbreaks.

California not closing its schools before the election is all about the political impact of closing them.

 

[billd91]

Sorry, didn't mean to start an aside that's political. More about controlling outbreaks among school aged children.

Unfortunately, we can't trust the Catholic schools to avoid being political around here. They've been fighting some of the county's efforts to control the pandemic in my area.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Unfortunately, we can't trust the Catholic schools to avoid being political around here. They've been fighting some of the county's efforts to control the pandemic in my area.

While the Pope has generally been on board with most pandemic public health measures, it’s not universal. Some of our dioceses in America have been very proactive and cooperative with the general fight against Covid. Others have been sanctuaries for plague rats.

 

[J.Quondam]

So, I don't know how it is done in Canada, but in the US, when a school is used as a polling place, the kids are not allowed in the section of the building being used for polling, and the voters are not allowed to just wander around where the students are. There is no mixing to speak of, so it is not an issue for controlling outbreaks.

California not closing its schools before the election is all about the political impact of closing them.

Polling site administration varies a lot by state and district. In my last county, every elementary and middle school kicked out polling sites for reasons of covid, despite the fact that public and the students don't mix. And wisely so, imo, since the divider between the polling site and the rest of the school in many older buildings was sometimes nothing more than a line of masking tape or something.

 

[Ryujin]

So, I don't know how it is done in Canada, but in the US, when a school is used as a polling place, the kids are not allowed in the section of the building being used for polling, and the voters are not allowed to just wander around where the students are. There is no mixing to speak of, so it is not an issue for controlling outbreaks.

California not closing its schools before the election is all about the political impact of closing them.

Actually wander, no, but they have to walk to the area in which polling is occurring. In the two schools where I usually vote that's the gymnasium/multi-purpose room, which is at the back of the school. You have to go through a fair bit of the school to get there, by default, and they've never seemed to get it into their heads that both gyms have REAR ACCESS fire doors. I went to one of these schools, a lifetime ago, and it would be simple in that school to use one rear door for entry and the other for exit, in order to maintain social distancing.