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Reddit at David Pakman dot com slash redit. That's R.E.D. Dite a few posts I spotted this morning. I
want to bring to your attention because I think they're interesting. Our user noshed. He asks
what's going on with the Matt Gates investigation? Has it all been swept under the rug?
Writing I'm horrified that so much has come out about Gates and yet he's still going about life,
business as usual. I understand high profile cases take time, but what exactly is the timeline here?
This is exactly why when back in the summer, all of the news articles were saying investigation,
arrest may be imminent and Gates is a partner in crime, was confessing and pointing the finger at
Gates. This is why I was saying, I don't know that Gates gets indicted. I don't know that
Gates gets charged. I don't know that Gates gets arrested and why there was no particular reason
other than oftentimes these guys just avoid consequences one way or the other. Now,
we don't know the status of the investigation. I'm hopeful that it will at some point lead to
charges, if that is what is determined should happen on the basis of the investigation. But
this is exactly why I said let's take it a step at a time. I'm wondering just as much as you are,
what is going on with Matt Gates. Another post is about the reduced price of at home covid testing.
Remember last week Joe Biden announced that the covid at home covid tests would be offered at
cost. Wal-Mart has lowered the cost to fourteen dollars for a two pack. And as
User Bay Photo points out, if this is at cost, it will be too expensive for many.
And I think that that's absolutely right. I've said before I think that at five dollars a test,
it starts to become I don't know about appealing, but doable for people who say might be having
people over for an indoor event. And they say, hey, you know what, let's be extra safe.
Let's test everybody for a test. I do think that seven dollars a test is probably still too high.
And I don't know how much at home testing we're going to get voluntarily at that price.
Maybe the prices will continue to come down. But I think around the four dollar a test mark is
what would make sense to me. So far it seems like it's not going to go below seven,
at least in the immediate. Another user asked, does David think teachers are the problem with
the education system in the US writing? Does anyone else get the impression David puts blame
on teachers and schools for some of the problems of today's society? I'm sure he doesn't intend to,
but at times it sounds like David is trashing education and teachers. He will say things
like the U.S. education system is failing or schools don't teach critical thinking anymore.
While that's true, an uneducated listener might think David is advocating for privatized education
or incentivized teacher pay, both of which have been studied extensively and are terrible for
schools, teachers and students. No, I want to be so that that is not what I am saying when I say we
have a failing educational system. I am talking about a combination of misplaced priorities
as a result of often politicized school boards that have been taken over by right wingers who
don't want critical, critical thinking, taught or philosophy or epistemology, etc.. So so
that's often partizan school boards and it's a funding issue where we always have money for,
you know, the stuff. Right. You know the drill. We always have money for bombs. We always have money
for war. But when it's education, we always have to be fighting for and justifying every dollar.
So I'm not blaming teachers. I think 90 something percent of teachers are doing the best they can
with the resources they have and the curricula that they are in many school districts
obligated to teach to and teach from. I am not blaming teachers. I am not blaming teachers.
Glad for the opportunity to clarify. Join the discussion at David Pakman Dotcom Reddit.