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p for that. They did say I am going to intentionally put myself into infectious and or dangerous situations. This is the career I choose. There's a bigger benefit. I take the risk. If that's what we were talking about I'd say all right, you know we'll send the kids back to school and you've signed up for it. But teachers did not sign up for that risk. It is completely unreasonable, completely unfa…

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ch younger person, let's say a college age type person, who is the in-class manager if you will. So let's put a name on it because they're not teaching. The young person who's the physical presence and the authority in the room would simply be a manager of the situation. But the teaching would still come from the teacher who would be in a big old TV screen right in front of the class. They could still hear the teacher. The teacher could still see the class. And anything physical that needed to be done could be done by the younger, less risky person who's sitting in.

Now or how about, let me give you another suggestion. Let's say you build separate entrances and exits and bathrooms for teachers. So you have a situation where the teacher is just behind plexiglass the whole time. Just behind plexiglass and you never actually are physically could touch a teacher. You couldn't even get close to them if you wanted to because the teacher's in the front of the class and there's just a big plexiglass thing here. They couldn't get there if they wanted to. Now you don't need plexiglass if you have enough space from the first row of desks to the teacher. I mean it could be just a fence so that nobody gets close but you could probably figure ways around it.

Now one of the things I heard is that it's impossible to open up the schools with social distancing. In other words the desks being six feet apart. There's just not enough physical space. I would challenge that assumption because I think that in an emergency situation you would use all of the space. You might not use the gym for gym class because maybe it's too dangerous to have an inside gym class anyway. So you might use some of the gym floor. You might use some of the cafeteria floor and while it's warm you make people eat outdoors. You probably want to do that anyway. So probably you could get pretty close.

Now some students might want to still stay home and they could just tune in digitally just like anybody else. So I think that the president's instinct to push toward reopening is absolutely correct if you take all the pluses and minuses of the economy etc. into consideration. But you have to protect the teachers. You have to protect the teachers. That is completely unreasonable to send them back into this virus petri dish. I do not support that. So if we don't have a solution that the teachers are okay with I say don't do it. Keep the kids home because you can try harder. If your district hasn't figured out a way to keep the teachers safe they should boycott or strike or something and I would be on their side because we do have enough ways to keep them safe. If we're not using it then they should not go to work. That's my opinion but we do want to solve that.

All right. So Ivanka Trump is not getting enough attention in my opinion for her alternative career path effort. So she's working on a deal. I don't know all the details but I think she's working with big corporations to try to train and hire people who do not have college degrees. So that you could say well I want to learn this specialty. I don't need an English degree to do this job. But if this corporation will teach me that's a good solution. I think that's one of the best things happening in the country right now in terms of it makes sense on every level and it's just so obviously good for minority people. It's obviously good for low-income people. It's obviously good for anybody who doesn't want a college debt. This is just one of the best things that's happening in the country and it gives us a little bit of coverage and then people mock it because it's Ivanka. I mean it's a crazy world when the best things are ignored.

Joe Biden had one of the most classic gaffes I've ever heard and this one he didn't even stop to correct it. And he said in a sentence we have to get our kids back to school and then he said in the same sentence we have to get our kids to market swiftly. We have to get our kids to market swiftly. And he didn't even stop to correct it. They just went on. What? Are you kidding? Are you kidding? So just add that to the list.

Now again I remind you that the hilarious thing to me is watching Democrats act like there's nothing wrong with Biden. I don't see it. Yeah he misspeaks now and then but nothing wrong. Of course the larger context is the Wayfair rumors. Are you aware of those? All right. The most ridiculous fake news or fake, I guess it's a rumor it's not news that the actual news people are not covering this because it's not true which is strange for the news business. Usually they cover things whether they're true or not. But in this case I would agree with them not covering it. And the rumor on the internet is that the big company Wayfair that sells furniture, a gigantic entity, has been secretly using the pages of their website to sell children instead of products. Okay I could stop there and you would say okay that doesn't sound true and you'd be right because Wayfair is not really selling children. But people have these fake pages and they've got their argument because this uses children's names on the products and has a price that doesn't make sense and I don't know if they're photoshopped or mistakes or what. But what I can tell you with complete confidence, Wayfair is not selling children. They're not selling your children.

But in the context of these Wayfair rumors which are all over the internet and again I say it, Wayfair isn't doing anything. None of that's true. It's ridiculous. Right now if I'm wrong on this you should never listen to me again. Okay? If I'm wrong about this Wayfair thing being ridiculously stupid and not true, if it turns out I'm wrong never listen to me again. That's your deal. You have permission to never listen to me again. But I'm pretty confident about that one.

I've decided that non-fiction writers are the most dangerous people in the world because they don't know what they don't know but they think they know a lot. And so the more I see writers writing stuff and they don't know what they're talking about they are seriously leading the world in the wrong place. If you saw my Bjorn Lomborg conversation just now you know that the information that you and I receive about climate change is from writers mostly because I don't talk to scientists too much. I just read what is written. So really I'm reading the opinion and the framing from a writer and it's so dangerously bad and unable to look at costs and benefits and incapable of analyzing anything.

I want to give you an example of that. Well yeah okay I got a good example that's coming up. It's in a Bloomberg opinion piece. There's a thread on it today that I tweeted. But listen to this one. One sentence by an actual professional writer who gets paid by Bloomberg or actually I don't know if it's an opinion piece. Do they get paid? I don't know their business model. But it's an opinion piece in Bloomberg. It has said this. It was this is one comment in a larger piece about all the rich people complaining about cancel culture. So this is a piece in favor of cancel culture. So we could stop right there. You know you don't even need to know what the writer said. If they're writing in favor of cancel culture maybe you shouldn't listen to them. But let me read this ridiculous sentence.

Quote, "Could it be that increasingly diverse voices and rich conversations are a threat to their free speech?" And he's talking about the rich people who wrote, there was some 30 some people who signed a document against cancel culture. So that's the context. Could it be that increasingly diverse voices and rich conversations are a threat to their free speech? Or more accurately the prerogative, the prerogative, I hate that word, the prerogative of famous and powerful people to speak at length on all sorts of things without interruption or disagreement.

So this writer is asking the question if there's really a problem with cancel culture is there really, is this really a bad thing all you rich famous writers? Or are you just complaining about it to get more space for your own ridiculous comments without any counter comments? Now I'm not even going to tell you what's wrong with this opinion because it's so stupid I don't need to, right? I'm pretty sure that the people railing against cancel culture do not have a secret agenda of silencing the rich and diverse voices and conversation

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s. I'm pretty sure that zero people have ever had that thought in their head. Zero. Zero people on the whole planet, seven billion plus people, not one person has ever had the thought because it's a stupid one that this writer has assigned it to them. Could it be that they don't like diverse voices and rich conversations? Uh no it could not be that. And this is someone who's paid by Bloomberg. Act…

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