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  1. We always park and walk. Cars driving around during TOT is dangerous. Besides being dangerous it’s no fun. Walking from house to house is most of the fun!
  2. My college in AR wasn’t as explicit about it but had similar rules. I kind of wish it had been spelled out like that, I ended up on academic probation one semester for dropping too many classes and I hadn’t realized it was a thing. Except the 30 hour rule, that seems weird.
  3. To answer the question of where exactly we go…when we lived in my home town we went to a close neighborhood that was easy to access and always had a lot of families participating. Since we’re in a brand new town this year I asked on Facebook because I don’t want to drive around all night randomly and don’t want to end up with sad, disappointed children if I can’t find anywhere to go. I guess this thread has me rethinking that. Maybe we’ll just do something at home. I’d hate to be an “invader” that the homeowners will complain about. My kids will be disappointed but 🤷‍♀️. I can’t actually force my own neighbors to participate.
  4. We’ve never lived in neighborhoods where the neighbors handed out candy so we always go to a nearby neighborhood. I’m sure that bothers some people but the alternative is my kids miss trick or treating because of where we live. When I say no one hands out candy I mean quiet literally not one single house, not just “a bad haul”. The “haul” has never been the point, participant in a cultural activity is. The attitude that kids should just miss out if the live somewhere with neighbors who don’t participate is kind of gross.
  5. Wait…you can live anywhere and do that? Not just a neighboring town? 🤯
  6. Controlling the school board controls the Sex Ed curriculum.
  7. Am I right in thinking the government is covering the cost for all the COVID hospitalizations right now too?
  8. It is because of the way the court ruled in that case. In Hobby Lobby the right of the company to dictate what birth control options where covered by the insurance company was on a religious ground. In recent years the Supreme Court has granted business entities religious freedoms and freedom of speech, expanding the rights of a business. In a world where a business entity is viewed to have religious and speech rights, it only follows that a business also has the freedom to require employees to have vaccines. Businesses have been given a lot of freedom to do what they want. Some people have been very happy with the expansion of those freedoms, but are now upset about the vaccine requirements which seems to be very similar to the other freedoms. I actually don’t think the connection is difficult to see.
  9. I’m seeing all sorts of conspiracies from my conspiracists friends. Apparently they think Facebook shut down to suppress some sort of news that “they” don’t want us to know. Fun, fun.
  10. Are allowed to be covered by the employer sponsored insurance plan. Isnt part of requiring the vaccine in the businesses interest because it reduces the potential that the employer will have to pay for a COVID hospitalization? Doesn’t feel much different to me than employers getting to pick birth control options. Shouldn’t the choice of birth control options be between a person and their doctor, the same as people are arguing for with the Covid vaccine? I would LOVE for health insurance and employment to be disentangled somehow, but we aren’t there yet.
  11. I’m all for changing these things. Stronger worker protections for example. But we are where we are. I see that most people that are against businesses requiring vaccines have a strong overlap with people that want businesses to be allowed to require drug tests and to be allowed to choose what birth control options are allowed to its employees and support a business right not to serve groups they don’t like.
  12. 2 separate mandates. One is for federal employees from their employer, the federal government. One is a mandate put on private businesses of over 100 employees by the federal government.
  13. It’s pretty typical for government mandates to apply to employers with a certain number of employees. FMLA only applies to businesses with 50 employees. The rationale is to avoid burdening small businesses. It’s an attempt at balancing competing interests. I’m actually not convinced that mandates are the best way.
  14. I don’t see how. Things effect other things. The Butterfly effect. The side of pro business has spent many years strengthening business at the expense of the worker. That is the world we live in. Businesses can require vaccines because we live in a world where business can do as it pleases.
  15. The federal mandate doesn’t start until Nov 9, so anyone losing a job right now is from a policy of a specific business. I may or may not agree with all of it, but this is a natural progression towards stronger business rights. If businesses have free speech rights and the religious rights to say….decide who to bake a cake for… both recent Supreme Court rulings, then it seems to naturally follow that a business also has freedom of association and can choose to employee who they wish, for whatever reason they wish. Which, in Right to Work states is indeed the case. In a world with no Citizens United, no Masterpiece Cake Shop and stronger worker protections these mandates might not be feasible. But we are where we are.
  16. The Presidential mandate is for vaccine or testing. Individual employers can do what they want, but the mandate from the government includes testing as an option. I was referring to that.
  17. OSHA regs require all sorts of things. That’s the government requiring business eases to require things of employees. Anvinportant part frequenctly forgotten us thst the vaccine is not mandated. It’s vaccine OR regular testing. Regular testing is a valid option and not an imposition.
  18. The point is that we allow employers to coerce employees all the time. You happen to think that an employer regulating substances consumed in off hours as acceptable and requiring a vaccine not to be. You, and most people, accept coercion from businesses in exchange for a job, income and health insurance. It’s just a matter of what you think is ok to be coerced in exchange for a job, not coercion in general.
  19. We already accept so much of that though. Randomized drug tests are employers enforcing rules on employees during off work time for example. Not hiring felons leads to felons not having jobs or health care. But we think it’s ok for an employer to have a say in who works for them so we just accept it.
  20. I think comes down to “how” it’s done and what the family dynamic is. My sister in law and I plan my side of the families pictures and we include everyone and do a bunch of different combinations. She wouldn’t blink if we got a generations type picture, neither would my husband, but I think that’s because spouses feel secure and welcomed and wanted.
  21. I tour situation I might tell my husband that I was willing to discuss it *after* he did some volunteer time with that age group so he could was more knowledgeable on what he was talking about. Church, library, scouts, something more than TV representation and his own memory. Id also want a discussion about why maturing slower has a bad thing. Kids allowed to mature at their own pace not due to social pressure might be less likely to be complete fools at 25.
  22. I think a mission trip might actually make the disdain worse if it’s mostly directed at school. Why in the world does the school care about hats and hair styles when people are suffering with actual problems.
  23. I have seen predictions saying that we are getting close. I think one predicted Florida hitting a peak and starting to taper off by mid Sept., based on the patterns observed in England and India.
  24. I’d expect fraud to be crazy right now with everything going on. The systems have been overwhelmed during the pandemic and they had to prioritize speed over accuracy at some point. The rules for who qualifies and who doesn’t were temporarily changed during the pandemic too. Add in hastily hired and trained personnel and you have a perfect storm for fraud. I would guess there will be investigations and such once things settle down.
  25. I think it’s no coincidence that things changed significantly after the fairness doctrine expired in the late 80s. After that we had the rise of partisan talk radio and infotainment news channels.
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