That’s what I found interesting. Every time any medication is used on a wide scale you’re going to get a handful of people who react badly to it. No medicine is ever 100% safe. The best you can do is weigh up the odds. And the odds of people dying from halting the vaccination program for any length of time are very much higher.
My daughter has asthma so they want to sign her for an early AstraZenica jab. We looked at the risk of Covid versus the minuscule risk of the jab, and said yes.
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A lot of people aren’t rational and weigh risks differently when it’s something they did i.e. getting a vaccine vs something that just happened to them like catching a disease. Even more so when it’s something that they did to their child. Thinking here more of the MMR autism thing. The thought that they might be responsible for harming their child is so terrifying that they sort of shut down and won’t be swayed by any evidence that it’s safe but on the other hand if their child got measles etc. then well that’s just fate. It’s a stupid and selfish and human reaction.
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It gave me pause for thought. Rationally I know it’s the right decision but somewhere inside I think, what if…?
Hey, look at you agreeing with the E.U, haha! If only we’d stayed in it.
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English dude here is dead against vaccines and I asked him why. He said when 2 of his mates got jabs when they were going to Africa they got really really sick (which as far as I know is par for the course, some people react worse). This was 20 years ago and I’m sat there thinking ‘so because 2 of your mates got sick 20 years ago you aren’t going to vaccinate your kids’. Fucking mental. Don’t speak to him any more just can’t be bothered to go there
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Seems to sum things up in France pretty well.
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The French are being weird, but maybe they think Brits are going to be even more annoying in the post-COVID future than we were in the post WW2 era. ‘We saved you Frenchies again, LOL cheese eating surrender monkeys had to have the Brexit jab’ etc…
To be fair to them it’s probably gonna happen.
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Such blind ignorant and voodoo style miss information and denial has paid a price . This prick has so much blood on his hands that covid was a lucky escape for him.
Let’s hope the country can do a U-turn now
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Bit unfair? @voodoo, I love your posts.
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Took me a second, ha!
The ministry of voodoo style miss information and denial, almost sounds cool, till you see who it’s about… oof.
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A really really good read this . Pretty much nails everything bang on.
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Ha she sent me an email not long ago saying she was looking in to doing that and seeing if I knew anyone who could be an instructor. Seemed like another pipe dream idea but good for them I guess.
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I’m split on this. On one hand I think it’s great that skating has come so far.
But on the other I think learning to skate should be a unique experience for each individual, rather than have a set curriculum and methodology.
In other words, learn it yourself you stupid weener kids.
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This is it, what are you learning it for? A scholarship to do what with? Sort of means there’s gonna be an end result and skating is far from that.
I will say tho in a heavily male dominated culture it can be very intimidating for many, so a place to learn to skate with out intimidation could be good . But that’s also part of skating, overcoming the surroundings and people.
I’m a skate coach. I kind of agree. Once we’re past the very basics we try and encourage individualism as quickly as possible. The intermediate classes we run we pretty much let the kids choose what to learn and just help them out. Some parents get mad thinking we’re not ‘teaching’ them anything but fuck it. My experience from teaching thousands of kids at this point is that skating still isn’t for everyone and a lot of them will stop after a while hopefully having learned something then can take forward and apply to other things, same as anyone who skated for any length of time. But it gives the ones who want to stick at it a way into it that they might not have had.
That’s just us though and we’re very concious of what we do and try to apply the ‘realities’ of skating to it as much as we can. I dread to think what some of the programs around the country are doing as I’ve seen first hand the standard of some of it. The skate coach qualification mentioned in that article is a joke for a start and means people with fuck all knowledge can approach schools etc under the guise of being a “professional”.
The scholarship thing just seems like it’s because it was a school teacher’s idea and she had to work some sort of end goal in to it to get it to pass.
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Yup classic ideas from people who know nothing about skateboarding and it’s culture. Bit like that kid and the skate App thread
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The teacher’s heart is in the right place. She says:
It’s about perseverance, concentration and — really importantly — having the body confidence to do it all in front of other people.
