King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution | 
pickI wasn't looking forward to yet another book about the American Revolution, but this one was really fun. Little tidbits---like what John Hancock ordered for lunch and what he actually had---make the people of that time more vivid. The historic park around Concord and Lexington was one of my favorite places to visit and walk with my kids, and this book made me miss eastern Massachusetts just a little bit (that and the state's good contact tracing).
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds like a fun book, and yes...I still can‘t believe we can‘t do contact tracing right in most of the US. So frustrating and disappointing. 4y
ImperfectCJ @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I can't get my head around it. That and yesterday someone in a local group I'm in was arguing against free covid testing for kids going back to school in-person because she didn't want the district "forcing" her kids to be tested. I guess reading about the American Revolution helps me see the history of those kinds of arguments, but they still don't make sense to me. 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ImperfectCJ I understand, it‘s so frustrating. But my argument there is, your kid has to have basic immunizations before they can go to school to protect everyone, if you can do that, you can do this...and if you absolutely cannot, then you can choose cyberschool or homeschool. I just don‘t know how we got here, but lack of education is a HUGE problem. Generally, and about this pandemic specifically, the misinformation or info vacuum is bad. 4y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...and without a national education push, that vacuum is just overflowing with junk. 4y
mrsmarch We....have good contact tracing? Could have fooled me! Eastern MA here. My 7 year old is in remote second grade, which is good bc her in person school - which she‘d be going to if the Gov and Mayor had their way - just had a student test positive! 4y
mrsmarch And as someone up to her eyeballs in the American Revolution most of the time, I don‘t believe that many of the arguments political conservatives nowadays have come up with have any basis in the actual American Revolution. They just don‘t. Our Founding Fathers were far more radical than people think. 4y
ImperfectCJ @mrsmarch Well, good contact tracing in comparison with other parts of the country. We lived in central Mass for 7 years, and it wasn't a good fit for us, but I have been impressed at the reports about contact tracing friends have been giving me, compared to things here in SoCal (and we're even doing better than some places, that just isn't saying much). 4y
ImperfectCJ @mrsmarch Absolutely. They were radical, conflicted, and not at all in agreement about most things, which is part of why our Constitution is so unclear/contradictory on so many points. If only Abigail Adams had been in the continental congress. 4y
mrsmarch @ImperfectCJ yeah, it‘s all comparative I guess. We could be doing better - that‘s a given. And frighteningly, it could be worse. 4y
mrsmarch @ImperfectCJ I ❤️ her. The Revolutionary Women were a league of their own. 4y
ImperfectCJ @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Agreed. We make a lot of compromises to engage in public activities, and this seems like a really non-invasive one and not “forced“ since there's the option of virtual and no indication they plan to turn kids away who haven't been tested. Offering free testing for in-person public school also helps alleviate some inequalities in access to covid-19 services among low-income residents. Personal freedom vs collective good. 4y
