@Jetty You see more and more countries enforcing laws to make sure 'social media' will not (try to) take over (again). A bit late I would say but yes as long as you can 'responsibility' use those tools in a 'healthy' way(what is healthy?) then be my guest.

@Jetty your are most welcome

@JettIf

If I totally knew the answer to that one, I would be able to solve tele-teaching problem associated with this pandemic. Presently, only 30-40% of students are responding to, or are capable of responding to tele-instrction lessons. Using education as the model to answer yourv query. Hetevgies.

In order to solve this problem, it would take a complete re-vamping of the educational system. First, every student in the Nation would be provided with a laptop or tablet. You can't charge them in lower income communities because the average household budget could never afford the cost. Especially if a family has more than one child of school age.

A formal method of documenting and distributing would need to be developed. It should be nationwide to guard against theft and across state line black marketing.

Every family or every living unit block would need access to a modern to recieve wifi service. This means that Service Providers would need to drastically ramp up their service capability. In lieu of a modem-wifi service, the residences need to be wired with a T3 line to provide ethernet instead of wifi.

Teachers would need to be taught how to transition from brick and mortar classroom lessons to tele-instruction (presently happening nationwide due to the pandemic).

As you can see, it's a very complex and multi-layered problem. Now envision extending this to every adult in the US as well. Whew!

@t1nick We gave each of our students Chromebooks but only about 80% of them have access to broadband. A local ISP provider is offering free broadband for students for the next two months. I checked their website and they noted they currently have over 1,000 requests for service and their expansion (installation) capacity is limited to 25/day. Although I have lived in my house for over a decade about a month ago two days after they announced they would be (for a week or so) shutting down schools. I finally installed broadband at home. The cable installer noted two installs ago he added internet to a house with a C-19 quarantined person. I cleaned everything with bleach after he left.

Google Classroom and other service such as Khan Academy are rather great and google "Meet" allows us (those with access to broadband) to get together but it is hard to encourage kids to do all the work (or even show up for meetings) I have spent most of the last month online teaching teachers how to use their computers and some online resources and some time with students. Our student population is primarily poverty so some of them have noted they are out of money (to buy food). At this time, school is not necessarily their top priority.

@NoMagicCookie

A lot of us are using EDMODO. Response was good at first, but has dwindled to a mere trickle. We have no solution here in the Navajo Res. that I've heard. The explosion of covid in our area has occupied the Tribal Councils attention
Admin. is working on it, but the Navajo capital is slow to respond. About a quarter of our community doesnt have electricity or running water, let alone Internet. Many Smartphones, but are primarily for using in the dorms when students were here.

The Navajo Nation has 220 schools on the reservation over four states: NM, AZ, UT, & CO. They were not prepared to assign technology for every student.

@t1nick The Navajo nation and the virus made national news tonight. News interviewed many youth that were worried they would loose their elders. Not good. Last time I flew into a conference held on the rez near Farmington NM) I rode with a code talker. Great person.

Chromebooks are really cheap - just a few hundred dollars each. We anticipate not getting all of Chromebooks back as many our our students may return to the res. Currently we (our school) has yet to be hit by the virus but I don't think this will last for much longer as with number of positive cases in the state now doubling every few days, they currently plan to re-open may 26 for summer school.

@NoMagicCookie

We have cancelled summer school. No plans to return until end of July.

@t1nick A good choice. I hope they plan on virtual summer school and I question opening campus the end of July but only time will tell.

Computers do monitor things we do online, but to really monitor all of the internet activity of hundreds of millions of people would require millions of people to be doing the surveillance. Computers certainly can watch everything and flag certain things/patterns for human analysis. Fortunately neither you or I are likely doing anything of enough importance to get much attention, that's our egos talking.

@Jetty The usual "good cause" is to make money and that within itself is not bad. As for my workplace, I deliver auto parts for a living and I see what I am describing almost everywhere I go.

Testing is just Step1 in the process of getting control over the virus outbreak. Gathering and analyzing the data is Step 2 and making policy based on the data is Step 3. I will admit that Step 1 could be done by the large business owners but I don't trust them with Step 2 and 3. Any results that even have a whiff of not being in the business owners' self-interest will be ignored or suppressed.
By the way, the same will happen when the person in the White House fancies himself a business owner.

@Spinliesel Sadly many of the folks who might do Steps 2 and 3 may have vested interests ie. doctors or groups of medical professionls - checks on the checkers, who can you trust? BUT overall having a fox watch the hen house and can't happen.

and even do some exercise. I ride my bike.