It's bad enough they don't teach shop class in schools anymore, but they need to go back to teaching public health. When I took health class in 1967 we had a great big eighty year old jock for a teacher, and he was a well spring of modern info. He would tell us to ease up on the Camel straights, and quit gargling whiskey first thing in the morning. That was some darn good advice. Most of us were coughing our lungs up.

We learned about how the organs of the body start waving a white flag when they're about to go to the hot place, like when your liver swells up and you start puking all over the place. He'd tell us to eat some veggies, so we can crap normally. He even showed us how to burn suspicious skin lesions off using a soldering iron. Naturally, we'd get yelled at if we didn't return the things to shop class right away. Teachers were strict back then. Most important, though, he told us not to be a bunch of whiners when we get a few teeth knocked out playing sports. That happens to every one. The important thing is that the team wins.

It remains to be seen what happens with the pandemic, and all. Maybe they can start back up with public health class next year.