Divemedic

I am reposting this because it is so accurate that I want to be able to refer to it later. From Larry Correia, best selling author:

Week 2 of online school.
Students took a quiz. One student copied and pasted an answer directly from Wikipedia. I reported this to administration, and this is the answer I got:

Can you reach the student by phone or chat to figure out if she’s hopelessly lost?
Many of our students read independently at a level far below our textbooks. They are used to having teachers “translate” the book and have few strategies if that is not present.

We currently have only about half of our students participating in online learning…and she’s one who is doing something. Is there a way to reach out and praise the student for trying? 

 A second administrator had this to say:

Is there any proof that the student cheated on all of the questions, or just the one? Give them no points for the one question, and explain to them that this is not how we do things. Use it as a teachable moment. 

This is why our students aren’t learning very well. Too many people want to coddle them and reward bad behavior. Administration doesn’t make the students own their decisions or behavior. As a teacher, the message is loud and clear: we are not being paid to teach, we are being paid to appear as though we are teaching.

I have said this before, and I will say it again: education in this country is broken beyond repair.

I agree with CNN. We should immediately close all gun stores for the good of the public. To prevent the spread of the Wuhan virus, we should allow gun distributors to ship guns directly to paying customers.

I am from New Orleans. This year, because my wife had never seen it before, we went to Mardi Gras. We didn’t go for the final weekend- instead we went to the weekend before. It turns out that the Wuhan virus was spread in New Orleans during that time frame. My brother, his wife and daughter, my uncle, his wife and daughter, my wife, and I were all there celebrating the holiday. Not one of us has gotten sick.

My son left this morning for Manhattan. He approached the security checkpoint where there were no passengers there. He even streamed it live, he was the only person there who was not a TSA agent. He approached the first line, the agent waved him forward and scanned his ticket.

She promptly told him that her line was only for TSA precheck, and made him move over to the next line. He laughed, thinking he was being messed with. Nope, she made him leave and go through the other (empty) queue. When he got to the front, the same agent scanned his ticket again and sent him on to the searches.

This is what government employees do- they follow procedure without applying a single coherent thought.

My wife was being required to physically go in to work on certain days, even though she is capable of working from home. Even after the stay at home order, some employees were being forced to come in. That all came to a halt this morning. The administrator who was forcing everyone to come in tested positive for COVID-19.

It’s hard to feel sorry for someone who brought it on themselves, especially while they were forcing others into harm’s way.

My son began his career as a paramedic firefighter. When he was 20 years old, he had a cathartic experience: He had a patient die due to a rare condition that he had never heard of. He swore that day that he would never lose another patient because of something he didn’t know.  He became taking as many classes as he could.

Within 6 months, he became certified in Critical Care. Another year, and he was an RN as well as a medic. He quit firefighting and began doing flight nursing, transporting patients all over the world. Two years later, he earned his BSN. By his 25th birthday he began working in the ED and within a year was the charge nurse for his shift in the ED.

Then he got serious.

He got board certified in trauma nursing AND critical care. The first in the county to do both. He was the nurse in charge of trauma nursing for a level 2 trauma center, while at the same time being put in charge of training for his hospital. All before he was 30, supervising and training people who were decades older.

Now 32, he is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in Emergency Medicine. The medics and nurses love him because he remembers where he came from- he isn’t some kid right out of college, he knows what it is like to do their jobs.

The doctors respect him because emergency medicine is what he knows best. There are procedures that he has taught that many of them have only read about in text books.

The shift he is on has a doctor and a PA who specialize in family medicine, and they defer true emergencies like intubations or cardiac arrest to him.

That is where the worry comes in. Because of this, he is highly sought after for viral pneumonia, meaning that he will soon be headed to New York City to help with the crisis. I worry for him, even while he looks forward to making a difference.

I have been getting emails for the past two weeks, looking for more people with medical qualifications. Right now, they are trying to get people to volunteer by offering cash. I called and asked, and the reason why there is so much money is that people with critical care and ventilator experience are needed to work all of these new ventilators the government is buying. Now they are discovering that the have more patients than ventilators, and more ventilators than people who know how to use them.
My sources tell me that it will soon be involuntary- either “volunteer” or lose your medical license.

My wife and I have been cut off from the outside world and isolated from outsiders for over two weeks now, so I feel like we are safe from infection.

My inlaws finally heeded our advice and have begun to stay home, even though they had been refusing to do so. They called here to demand that we give them some of our supplies because they didn’t listen to our advice a month ago when we told them to buy things like sanitizer and N-95 masks. When my wife told them that we had no masks to spare for them, we got the line: “You would think at a time like this, you would worry about your parents and take care of them.” We were- we told you a month ago to buy that stuff and stop going out to social clubs. You wouldn’t listen. All I could spare for them was half a dozen surgical masks. I tried explaining to her that the masks I have won’t fit her anyway.

My son called this morning to tell me that the medical group he works for is heeding the nationwide call for medical personnel, and he is being sent to NYC to support the hospitals that are losing people due to infection. He is getting hazard pay that is about triple what he usually makes, but that seems like small potatoes for the risk being taken.

He also told me that medical people are being attacked if seen in public wearing any sort of clothing that identifies them as medical workers. Apparently people are afraid that the doctors and nurses are infected.