• Kentucky governor says Americans are too soft for closing school during vortex.
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Damn that dude has some hard sass skills I love it
It isn't about being "weak" or "strong." It's about looking at a situation - in this case extremely low temperatures. Once you make an assessment of the situation, you assess the risks. Then you have to make a judgement call, that call could work perfect fine or hurt people. It is pretty fucking simple, there are people who don't have cars, or reliable transport. There are people who do not have the money or are too poor to afford clothing/jackets which battle these conditions. You also have to look into it and see if the state is actually equipped to handle the situation safely. It is safer to shut down school and make up the days another time of the year. An education doesn't mean shit if a child has to abandon school to go to the hospital because of an injury.
My gf sent me a picture of her friends doorknow being fucking frozen over on the inside. I can respect not going to school.
We'd probably be closing schools here too if temps like that were to occur, because nobody has clothing appropriate for it.
In here in Georgia, -16c or 3F is enough to close school. Extreme cold like that is rare here though. Last time they closed school because it was 9F was when I was like 9 years old.
At least fifteen people in Chicago have already frozen to death. If only he had told them to toughen up a bit sooner maybe they'd have pulled themselves through the polar vortex by their bootstraps.
Here, they wouldn't close the schools ever, until recently - but not because of the cold, but because they literally can't clean the roads if it's snowy, because literally everyone emigrated, and those who are here don't think cleaning snow is paid well enough so basically shit always gets fucked in winter
That tweet uses a photo from Canada from 2013. The current death toll is eight currently, and it is unknown if five of them were even homeless, and the three that were found outside were not even in Chicago. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/30/minnesota-pennsylvania-chicago-weather-us-cold-polar-vortex-hits-mail/2718851002/
They'll defend it as "survival of the fittest" and "culling the less desirables".
Bitch I'm from the American Midwest, if it's cold, it's fucking cold.
I'm more surprised it was a kentuckian saying this and not someone from minnesota giving the ol' "oh this is normal for me" schtick. Also this is absolutely fucking COLD for a kentucky winter, I remember going down there in november/december and it being in the 50-60 range while it was well below freezing back in chicago Bevin scoffed at the forecasts. “Come on, now,” he said. “I mean, there’s no ice going with it, or any snow.” did you know that snow has a hard time forming below 15 degrees? because it was 30 degrees lower than that out, before the windchill
I used to commute an hour and a half to Chicago to go to school, by car. If my university didn't shut down during this polar vertex, I wouldn't even consider showing up. I'd be livid. All you're doing by not stopping classes is having poor, great students be forced to attend so they don't miss stuff in class, leaving them in danger. Fucking idiot.
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