r/news • u/hoosakiwi • 8h ago

Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl
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u/glacialspicerack1808 6h ago

I'm a teacher and I absolutely am not fucking ready for another round of socially and academically crippling remote "learning."

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u/Lost_Elderberry_5532 4h ago

As a teacher it’s terrible. As a single man working, it’s amazing. This is one of those things that is absolutely brutal for one group but great for another. Super ironic actually 😂. Almost like it’s intended to be that way 😂

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u/unoriginal_user24 6h ago

Teacher here checking in, I did my rounds during COVID, definitely not ready for that again. That stuff aged me sooo hard.

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u/Lost_Elderberry_5532 4h ago

At least now you have Ai. That’s a good thing, right? Right??? 😫

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u/Aliceceelooking 5h ago

As a nurse, I feel your pain 😭

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u/jeobleo 4h ago

I was a teacher during Covid. I didn't mind the distance stuff; I hated the synchronous stuff.

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u/Successful-Bar-8173 6h ago

I still don’t understand how a year of remote learning apparently cripples children for life. They can’t be that feeble.

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u/Natpez94 6h ago

A year is a long time for a child. And kids learn in a social way, so trying to learn things over a screen without physical interaction can be a confusing setup for a young mind trying to understand how the world works.

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u/glacialspicerack1808 6h ago

Because they aren't actually learning, for one. They mostly were cheating or ignoring their work entirely and getting a free pass. Which means that they essentially lose out on an entire year of learning. Like they just skipped an entire grade. And the younger it happens, the more critical skills they miss out on. I have high school seniors in my classroom who were in, like, 5th-6th grade during the pandemic, and now do not know what adjectives are.

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u/ubag 5h ago

my mom (teacher) had such an awful time during the lockdowns that she ended up changing careers

if we have a second pandemic now that kids are addicted to AI i don't know how you guys will survive

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u/heyliberty 6h ago

The major effects we've seen are the lack of social skills, emotional regulation, classroom and work stamina, and age appropriate peer relationships. You can teach concepts and subjects through remote learning just fine. You can't, however, reliably teach the former. So while we've been seeing academic gaps, yes, it's really the "how to be a student" skillset that got altered or is missing.

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u/chinneganbeginagain 5h ago

The lack of impulse control is off the Richter scale.

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u/Sunflower6876 3h ago

It was very easy to tell which cohort missed kindergarten. Zero impulse control, zero understanding of personal space, zero understanding of how to function in a classroom... all the important social skills that are taught in kindergarten were never installed.

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u/uhdoy 6h ago

I wouldn’t say it cripples them, but I have seen impacts to my own kids. It’s had lasting changes on (at least my) society/environment as a whole. It’s not surprising for it to have impacted kids to a greater degree. Of course, I’m not a sociologist/scientist/etc. so determining which parts (lockdown, social distancing, the political situation, etc) had impacts is way above my pay grade.

FWIW, I was in favor of the lockdowns here in the US and I still believe it was the right thing to do.

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u/Friendly-World-5273 6h ago

Right? Even if I accept that it set back the youngest age schoolchildren to an extant, you see this in reference to high school kids all the time. One year of remote learning and now they can barely function at all.

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u/Tiny_Rick85 4h ago

That's because you didn't pay enough attention in school.