Grieving (And The Pandemic Period) We don’t seem to hear about, grieving, anymore. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is the last person to have anything important to say about it…and that was more than 50 years ago. I think video games and tv programs and the like are jam-packed with death. These deaths are shocking, but the characters almost always, “move on”, immediately.  Source

By the Numbers: How Schools Struggled During the Pandemic New federal data from the 2020-2021 school year shows the reach of online learning, the struggle to hire teachers and the lack of counselors.

UK’s surprising response to the pandemic submitted by /u/DahZs

The ‘Silver Lining to the Pandemic’ for Working Mothers The share of women working has reached a record high, with the biggest increases among mothers of children under 5.

Solo travelers. How has the pandemic altered your approach to travel (if any) I’ve never solo travelled before the pandemic, so I’m just curious for those who have, if there are many differences. I’ve only just recently solo travelled so maybe the ‘norm’ now wasn’t so normal before. It could be the locals’ approach towards tourists, transportation, or even visiting places you would normally think about visiting before the…

A Silver Lining From the Pandemic: A Surge in Start-ups New research suggests that big shifts in consumer and company behavior — and maybe federal stimulus dollars — have fueled entrepreneurship.

His World Shrank in the Pandemic. So He Shrank His World. Danny Cortes was at a low — divorced, unemployed, on parole — when Covid hit. Then a craft hobby to stay sane during lockdown blew up on social media — and in auction houses.

Where can I watch the Malcolm in the Middle pandemic reunion? So I recently binged Malcolm in the Middle because of that Sunny episode. I was surprised and glad to know that there was a reunion table read for the pilot during the pandemic. I’ve tried looking everywhere to find it but haven’t been successful yet. Could someone please let me know where can I watch it? submitted by /u/man_nowhere

After A Pandemic High, RV Sales Have Cratered RV sales exploded over the last couple of years, but today demand seems to be falling off pretty drastically. Fortune reports that RV sales have tanked nearly 50 percent so far this year. Read more…

Any post-pandemic trans-atlantic cargo voyages? I am hoping to cross the Atlantic by cargo ship this October/November in an effort to reduce my carbon footprint. However, of all the passenger cargo ship sites I have found (links below), they all say that passenger travel (to the United States in particular) has not picked back up since COVID. So I am wondering whether anyone has managed to do…

For those who went somewhere before and after the pandemic, what changed ? Now that we started traveling again, I wonder if I would have experienced the countries we visited in the last two years differently if the pandemic never happened. Or if we would have visited earlier? I am from Montreal, so I know what was there before that is now gone, but maybe it doesn’t impact the tourist experience of the city. So those wh…

Curmudgucation: The Pandemic and the Testing Red Herring Curmudgucation: The Pandemic and the Testing Red Herring The pandemic exacerbated some of US education’s major problems, and that’s reflected in the effects on children. Unfortunately, it’s also reflected in how we respond to those effects; policies that were a bad idea in “normal” times become terrible ideas in a post-pandemic wor…