I read this on the BBC website earlier... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53549861 There's some interesting coverage of some of the issues by Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund this week as well... As they say, we should have been balling out ordinary people more and huge corporations less, particularly things like Airlines which are unlikely to come back in anything like the same way.
Well, a few more weeks and they’ll start towing their ice huts out on the lake. Gotta get your rays while you can.
That is why I said "apparently." Though it does appear to be from last week, I cannot 100% confirm. Yeah, I forgot to mention that I tried to go to the facebook page, but it was not active/taken down.
It finally happened! Western Nevada County overtook Eastern Nevada County in total confirmed cases. https://arcg.is/1HCXG90
Ha! Suck it, Grass Valley! And congrats for continuing to stay off the state's watch list. San Mateo county finally got on the watch list last week - Saturday was the last day for haircuts here.
Plus 1 for Blue Nevada County Minus 1 for Purple Nevada County My next haircut is scheduled for August 27. Here's hoping ...
Five People at Meeting with DeSantis Test Positive Five people who attended a Florida Sheriffs Association meeting last week with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) have tested positive for coronavirus, the Tampa Bay Times reports. “The association ‘exceeded’ social distancing guidelines at the event… Face masks were required at the meeting, each table sat a single person and they were 10 feet apart, and hotel staff cleaned the area every hour.”
They're trying to diminish global warming by reflecting sunrays back into space with their white skins.
I am willing to bet that 31 % intersects in the Ven diagram with flat-earthers, 9-11 deniers and pizzagaters. What a country! A new NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll finds 58% of Americans say they don’t trust what President Trump has said about the coronavirus pandemic, while 31% say they do trust him. First Read: “It’s unsustainable for a democracy — and a world superpower — for a majority of citizens not to trust their president on the deadliest virus to hit the country in 100 years.”
For the anybody-with-a-brain-knew-this-was-coming files: Teachers returned to a Georgia school district last week. 260 employees have already gone home to quarantine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...xTiQTEaoQYezJCdrHUnVHpbkW-Iw3B-Bi153Qbkt2-JcI Who, exactly, is going to teach our kids?
CPS asked us to choose, by the end of this past weekend, either hybrid (couple of days of in school) or remote learning. My first though about it was - how unfair. How can you expect parents to make that decision not knowing what's around the corner or even exactly what safety measures the school district is enacting? My GF keeps in touch with many of the parents, and she has yet to hear from a single one who didn't choose remote learning.
Every school is hoping ISBE rules only remote learning and/or Pritzker does. The former would save public superintendents’ asses; the latter would save private and public. It’s just a matter of time, I think.
Life (and death)'s going to teach them. They're getting their Civics lesson up close and in person every day
We received our reopening safety program from our daughter's aft er school program.Our school will be going four days a week.Wednesday her program will be open all day as a remote learning center. I feel more confident up here than I would if we were downstate.But I expect that it is 60-40 that we are all back online by Halloween.
We got ours for my daughter. They say they're going to have a choice between remote or in-school learning. But the in-school option only has kids in classrooms one day a week, due to smaller class sizes. I don't see how having the kids in school one day a week accomplishes anything whatsoever other than getting the teachers sick.
yep. the only upside is it gives parents a bit of a break I guess? risk v reward isn't even worth debating imo.
Our school has been in the same position. They would like to be able to offer in person to those who absolutely need it: kids who lag behind, those kids where the school serves as a first line of defense for family/social issues and those for whom lunches are extremely difficult to come by at home. We’ve had parent surveys and those surveys suggest that 1/3 want their kids to return and 2/3 want virtual. This would require a two day mo-tu and a two day th-fri shift for in school due to 25% capacity restrictions. Two problems raised to the school: -they’re asking teachers to instruct a small group of kids in person with all of these safety protocols (difficult enough) AND virtual kids. Simultaneously. This is damn near impossible because virtual instruction and classroom instruction are two different beasts. They need to be building up their most adaptable form of delivery (virtual) and teaching kids in that format with online modules and the like regardless of where they are. Then maybe later some more personal in class touches on top of that. Virtual and in person aren’t mutually adaptable. It’s easier to teach with virtual methods in class than the other way around. -the two day shift model is likely to be very bad from a health perspective. You’ll have families opening up their “bubbles” for childcare 3 days/week and then sending their kids to school 2 days/week. Any benefits they get from additional distancing are likely more than offset by the mixed in person school + childcare model.
This guy is between a rock and a hard place! An Arizona superintendent on safely reopening schools: 'It's a fantasy'
Daily #COVID19 update via the state Department of Health: Highest No. of deaths reported in single day since late April.- 39,463 cases (+861)- 566 deaths (+15)- 504 hospitalizations, as of 8/3 (-124)- 6.8% overall positivity rate as of 8/3 pic.twitter.com/ZLSTd8I8s9— Kassie McClung (@KassieMcClung) August 4, 2020 And a boost from yesterday's 377 count... Thanks Kevin