It was an okay show. What I didn't like. We spent so much time with the red team and you get to know them and like them and you hate how things are going for them. So I immediately pull for the underdog like always, but in this case it is because we haven't even got to know the yellow team. We haven't got to know them very well yet, because we got to spend very little time with their tribe. I like Bob too, I also like the olympic gold medalist. I think she should do well. I think the 1st person that was voted off deserved it. She was so negative. The 2nd got on my nerves a little bit too.

Banning assault style weapons would not reduce these numbers hugely but would still be meaningful. And it seems like pretty low-hanging fruit, too, when you consider all the other guns do have some arguable use. Not sure what the legit argument for having military-type weapons is. Remember that the United States does NOT have an official manner to track gun deaths. There is no mandatory reporting guidelines by law enforcement agencies to give a true number. So it's probably worse than the charts show. Studies suggest that suicide by methods other than gun are often failures and the person usually regrets the attempt and sometimes even gets help. (Otherwise, why bother with the oops net under the Golden Gate bridge?) Nobody knows if gun attempts would be regretted cuz...they work better. Suicides by gun is a problem. It's a different problem than assault-style weapons being used for mass random murder. They can't be addressed the same way but they shouldn't be forgotten. Shame the CDC can't support studying gun violence or suicides. So yeah, my kids' schools have drills. The middle school might have a security guard; the elementary school doesn't. The typical mid-century California suburban school has no inner halls. It's just a conglomeration of buildings. If you didn't feel like entering by the kindergarten or the front office or the library, you could enter from the other side by sneaking through the backyard of one of the 20 or so homes that back onto the field.

I had to leave for awhile, and when I returned I found another message from the school staff. The school system wants all parents to complete a survey about whether they intend to send their children to school this fall, and if so, whether they intend to have the kids ride the school buses. If their decision is not to have the children attend, the board wants to discuss the decision with them. The message also mentioned the on-line learning option. I think this was in planning stages before the positive covid19 case was identified, but it's nice to know there are options. BTW, I'd heard that the neighboring town's mayor had announced a mask mandate (churches excepted), and my trip today was the first time I've been in the city limits since my father's last cardiologist appointment mid-March. I saw many people outside without masks, some walking together. Some people had masks pulled down, and I watched as one lady pulled up her mask as she entered a convenience store. My doctor told me his opinion is that wearing a mask is much more important than worrying about contact with money, mail, etc., although hand-washing is always important. A mask is required for an appointment, and of course the staff were all wearing masks. He also said that the staff is having a difficult time finding disposable masks, and when they can find them the price is more than double what it was before covid19.

Representing the U.S., female athletes have won more of the U.S. teams' medals than male athletes, for the third consecutive winter Olympics games. Females dominate U.S. winter Olympic sports. That's a fact. The men's hockey locker room spectacle was shameful, and while I can understand the actions of the players themselves because of the position in which they found themselves (I understand it, not excusing it), what was utterly embarrassing to the entire U.S. was video of our FBI director in that locker room chugging beers, pounding fists, and acting like a 20-yo frat boy. He had no business being in that locker room, riding the coattails of an Olympic gold-medal winning team. It was so cringey. And then the phone call from our nation's leader disparaging the women's team, followed by asserting that it was an honor to use the men's team as props for his SOTU while feeding them cheap fast food at the White House. Every female athlete has, from my observation, acted with grace and dignity while representing the U.S. And our administration has completely dismissed them.