Actually remember a presentation from one of the logbook startups from a few years ago. The key feature that skyrocketted adoption was the ability to fudge (...er, "correct") the logbook manually. When it was automated, they had issues because it would basically lock them down to the rules.
Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine.
Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue. Driving kills 4000. Suffocation 1500.
The risk to kids is very very small (especially considering vaccine can probably prevent almost all the above deaths), and certainly less than many other risks we tolerate.
F'n A. Reading the comments on this thread makes me love humanity. So much ingenuity, raw engineering horsepower, creativity. Goddamn, you are great people and you should be proud of yourselves. Reading this makes me believe we will survive as a species.
I would welcome you to move to VT, which has had fully state based funding since 1996 or so. The outcome has been decidedly mixed.
One clear thing that has happened is every student is getting a lot of money spent on them! (~$19k). Spending has increased substantially. There is a lot of waste. Despite losing 30% of students since that time period due to demographics, the number of teachers has actually increased. Staff to student ratio is 1:4.
But performance has not changed, and has actually gone down a bit if you squint at the numbers.
Agree. I've voted in 4 states (NC, NY, VT, NH) and it has all been like above. And I've also served as election volunteer, checking absentee ballots against the voting rolls.
I can COMPLETELY believe it was a lazy analyst at an insurance company. Boss: where's the data that Bob wanted? er... Here! (Source: been inside many insurance companies.)
Hanlon's (and Ocham's) Razor all the way here. Laziness / stupidity wins.