Burned Out On Screens And COVID Restrictions, Students Are Eager To Make The Most Of In-Person School; Fauci Says His Baseless Mandates Are More Important Than Your Constitutional Rights, and other C-Virus related stories

Burned Out On Screens And COVID Restrictions, Students Are Eager To Make The Most Of In-Person School:

After a year of masking, distancing, and remote learning, we’ve learned the hard way just how important it is to have regular social interactions.

Last week, it was my great pleasure to help with my high school’s freshmen orientation. I never thought I would look forward to doing this (normally I try to find ways to get out of it), but after the last school year, I was more than ready to interact with the kids without the onerous burdens of social distancing and masking.

I wasn’t alone in this feeling. Despite all the warnings about the new variant of COVID-19, many freshmen and sophomores (who didn’t get to enjoy their orientation last year) eagerly attended. Out of the hundreds there, only a small handful wore masks while the rest of them showed off their smiling faces as they reconnected with their classmates and played cheesy ice-breaker games with the other kids and us teachers.

Perhaps the most encouraging thing I observed at the freshmen orientation was the absence of smartphones. Normally, the kids who come to a freshmen orientation prefer to fend off boredom and socializing by gazing at their phones. This time, however, most of them had their devices out of sight, ready to start a conversation with the people next to them.

Screen Time Fatigue

While it may be part of the temporary euphoria of long-delayed human interaction, I suspect that there may be some burnout with the screens. Whether the students opted for virtual or in-person instruction (which was paperless and mostly virtual anyway), they all had to focus on the screen for hours at a time. Even when they grew understandably tired with navigating the clumsy educational applications, this usually meant putting one screen down for another, as they moved from reading their e-textbooks to watching soccer or playing Among Us on their phones. --->READ MORE HERE

Fauci Says His Baseless Mandates Are More Important Than Your Constitutional Rights:

In another one of his infamous corporate media talking head moments, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that baseless mandates for masks and vaccines are more important than Americans’ constitutional rights.

“I’m sorry, I mean I know people must like to have their individual freedom and not be told to do something, but I think we’re in such a serious situation now that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done,” Fauci said.

NEW - Dr. Fauci: "I'm sorry I know people must like to have their individual freedom… but I think that we're in such a serious situation now, that under certain circumstances, mandates should be done."pic.twitter.com/gSvfFDYIOr

— Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) August 10, 2021

When asked whether he agreed with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on requiring vaccines for teachers, Fauci once again repeated that he thinks forcing people to comply is an acceptable method to combat COVID-19. --->READ MORE HERE

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