Coronavirus Thread

My wife is a teacher and her union has been advised to get their last will and testaments in order before September.

Schools are a cesspool of viruses and bacteria at the best of times. They should not be opening. maks, no masks, doesn't matter. They should not be opening in a pandemic. Full stop.
I'm still trying to decide if I should let my daughter go to school in a few weeks. Her district is masks required and they are only letting half the school in at a time, so they go for 2 or 3 days a week, then pretty much remote learn the other days. I think that will be a clusterfuck, and that the online schooling option will be more consistent, not to mention safer, but my daughter is still shell shocked from the horrible emergency homeschool they did in spring, which was pretty much giving them piles of work a day and expecting them to work on their own. The other issue with online is that she open enrolled to the one school in the district that offers the IB program, and the online schooling won't have any of those classes.

My biggest issue of course is that I don't trust other people to have been doing the right thing. And the school she's going to is in a small town right next to Boulder, the city of the highest non-vax compliance in the state. Also I worry that the people that are willing to send their high schoolers back are also more likely to not take things seriously. I do trust my daughter to wear her mask, I've even been showing her how to sew her own because she wants to make a whole set to coordinate with her outfits. And I think that the school buildings will be pretty empty, and that the teachers will be taking things seriously. So I'm torn.
now you understand why I was whining about the position I was being forced to take with MPS.

Can you say “walking germ farms”?
 
They haven't officially announced what they're doing here yet, but this was one of the proposals for my son's school, and if they push it forward, I will be questioning it for the same reasons.

Meanwhile the Catholic school my cousins attend in NYC has announced schooling will be online until further notice. I really hope we get the same decision, as much as I know Li'l Z misses being around people.
Both of my kids are on a hybrid schedule. One goes to the school 2 days per week every other week, with the rest of the time online. The other goes to school for a full week and then a full week online. I am not confident in DOE or the private school's plans.
 
Oh and today's count is 60 new cases. A new high!

My boss just called to see if I would volunteer to work at one of the two emergency shelters on island. I told her flat out that I have serious doubts about safety in light of COVID, plus I have asthma and it's my kid's birthday on Sunday. If I get a direct order to go I will, but I'm not volunteering. If I get told I have to go, I hope they plan on paying for me to quarantine myself away from my house for 14 days.
 
Both of my kids are on a hybrid schedule. One goes to the school 2 days per week every other week, with the rest of the time online. The other goes to school for a full week and then a full week online. I am not confident in DOE or the private school's plans.
They just sent out an email that they want to do the 2-days-a week plan with the school only at 1/2 capacity at any time. It also says parents can opt out and have their child learn virtually instead. I know that's what Mr. Z will want, and after the article I mentioned earlier, I think it may be what we decide. We really can't trust all the other parents around here.
 
Turns out that position isn't as solid as I thought.

Scuttlebutt is that there's not many parents who want to send their kids to "public school daycare", so the number of staff needed to "supervise" them isn't as great.

Come August 4, I might be resuming being "on call" for work again. :(
 
Fuck dude, stay safe man. Do they have you on anything to help?
Just a fever reducer. Technically waiting for tests to come back to confirm but I've got all the correct symptoms. I'm to take it easy, rest, and go to the hospital if I get confused or can't breathe or any other signs of lowered o2 levels
 
I see a lot of hate from people that are fine with masks, or at least saying they are, but poking fun at those that are wearing them in their cars. I don't get it at all. If I'm going multiple places it does not make any sense that I'd take my mask off each time I got back to the car since I don't have anywhere to properly wash my hands. Nor do I want to throw the thing away and use multiple for the same trip(we've yet to move to cloth masks as we don't have anywhere to wash them regularly enough.)

Is there something I'm missing?
 
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Dave

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I hang mine on my rear view mirror and put it on when I exit the car. It sucks to wear them but it’s not a difficult sacrifice to make. I mean, I’m not rationing or buying war bonds or anything.
 
Just a fever reducer. Technically waiting for tests to come back to confirm but I've got all the correct symptoms. I'm to take it easy, rest, and go to the hospital if I get confused or can't breathe or any other signs of lowered o2 levels
Please do so. Be safe, be careful, be conservative in this. Losing NR was shitty enough, I don't want to see you gone too.
 
Please do so. Be safe, be careful, be conservative in this. Losing NR was shitty enough, I don't want to see you gone too.
I appreciate the concern, but I don't feel like I'm in any danger. It feels a lot like flu, just a lot of sleeping. But I'm not against going to the hospital if that changes.
 
i'll wear my mask in the car if it's convenient--like if i'm gonna only be in the car a few minutes.
Gloves, on the other hand, I wear any time I'm going to a high-touch service like an ATM or a gas station, and the glove comes off as soon as I'm done and before I touch anything inside my car.
 
I appreciate the concern, but I don't feel like I'm in any danger. It feels a lot like flu, just a lot of sleeping. But I'm not against going to the hospital if that changes.
In that case if you kick it can I have your cards?

OF COURSE I KID.
 
I appreciate the concern, but I don't feel like I'm in any danger. It feels a lot like flu, just a lot of sleeping. But I'm not against going to the hospital if that changes.
If the one person I know IRL's experience is any indication, it's the downswing that's the hard part. Once the brain and lung damage kick in, that's when the confusion starts and everything gets hard to do. I hope you have compression socks handy.

--Patrick
 

GasBandit

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Hey, just a heads up, too, for folks who keep their masks in their cars. If you park in the sun, make sure you don't leave your mask where direct sunlight will get it. The UV will break down the filter. I keep mine inside a paper bag in the car.
 
The wife put aside a bit of her inheritance because for a couple years now she's been planning a trip to Universal Studios before our kid turns 12 so we could also go to the Lego store while we were there.

He's currently 10. We're not sure it's ever going to happen.

--Patric
 
Hurricane went north. I didn't need to volunteer or be volun-told to assist at a shelter. COVID cases still in the 50s-60s for the past few days. Just listened to Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz (an infectious disease specialist) of SAMHSA talk about how schools need to reopen and that it's safe to do so. Why? Not many kids die from it. Immediately afterward I see an article in the news about how kids being hospitalized due to COVID has increased by 23% in Florida. I'm not encouraged by the expert.
 
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