lol wtf
And that’s a suburban/rural county. There are only 250k people in it.
And college athletics in the south will be just fine. Simple rule should be: a player dies, the coach immediately jumps off the tallest building on campus.
Been looking everywhere for n95s here so that my gf can be a little more protected when teaching.
2 Likes
Teachers are going to lose their voices from shouting from behind a mask all day.
Out of my daughters class of 20 only 4 kids are going virtual.
I was just second guessing myself on whether I was making the right decision. Seeing this helps confirm I am.
1 Like
Yeah it’s a suburb of Atlanta. Part of the metro area. Borders Cobb and Forsyth County.
In other news, Forsyth County is OFS tomorrow. My kids will be virtual, but lots of kids will be in the classroom.
For 5th grade my son has to be on Google Meets with the teachers during the day as they teach stuff, so he’ll have a normal schedule just done in his room instead of in the classroom.
The same teachers also teach in-class students during the day as well. 2 block schedule so they each teach one virtual and one in-school block.
I just looked at the partial numbers for Cherokee County (only 5 days measured) and they are in big trouble. As of the 9th, they had 577 new cases in the 5 day period. In the previous 7 day measurement, they had 404. Forsyth and Paulding County are slightly up in their full measurement, while Gwinnett is significantly down. Cobb County has 6 days worth of measurement, and they’ll be fairly significantly up in new cases (1720 in 6 days vs. 1604 in 7 days last measurement). Fulton County will probably be slightly up in the full 7 day measurement.
For the nation today, there was credit for 463,291 tests, while we had 55,664 new cases (Tuesday and Wednesday of this week are well up in new cases from Tuesday and Wednesday of last week). North Carolina removed 194,215 negative tests today. That still puts daily testing at under 660k while new cases continue to rise. Things are about to get really ugly, in my opinion.
1 Like
Interesting article on the new outbreak in New Zealand. Along with some highly sexy displays of government competence.
I was just coming to ask you for a detailed report. You read my mind.
Thankfully these southern schools open on the earlier side so us yankees can watch and learn what not to do.
Hey those MFers are still trying to litigate the civil war, if they want to sacrifice themselves in the name of Trump AND run a science experiment for the rest of us, I say go for it^
I assume we are about to find out how low SDI can go with schools open.
At this rate, 2,000 dead per day is back on the table even with improved cfr.
^seriously I hate to see the carnage that’s going to happen to teachers, the grandparents of the kids, and that “tiny fraction” of kids that get sick… but my position is that I’m a fan watching the game on tv. My rooting one way or they other doesn’t change anything.
The 7DMA of cases seems to have stabilized over the past few days also. Even without the increases from school/college sitting at 50-55,000 new cases a day means what probably 1200 dead a day average? Add in school reopening and 100,000 new cases a day (if testing isn’t capped)/2000 dead a day is definitely possible.
Then you have the fact testing is down in some of the hardest hit states who still have insane 20%+ positivity rates like Texas and Florida to consider. Those states seem as bad as ever while some other states like Arizona seem to legitimately be heading down.
Texas tests down by half in a couple of weeks is just unbelievable.
Most schools around Birmingham started this week/today and I assume around Alabama as well.
Found out my oldest who is starting middle school is basically just going to get lesson plans, supposedly there’s no online lectures or anything???
He will be fine as he has no issues with school but still seems like a joke. This would be his first year with changing classes each period so I feel bad he’s missing that and hope it doesn’t put him in a bad spot whenever he goes back. No idea about the numbers of remote/in person.
I’m Def feeling a bit down about the whole thing this morning. He’s fine I think and I’ve heard him ask his friends incredulously why anyone would go back but he obviously won’t be thinking of potential ramifications.
3 Likes
Less than 20% going virtual in my kids’ school. It sucks but I’m confident we’re making the right decision. We will have to step up as parents but I’m seeing no way it’s safe to send a kid to school right now if you have an alternative.
9 Likes
Great headline
3 Likes
Mrs. Tilted started virtual teaching yesterday. She still has to go into the school, but it’s an empty classroom. She has to help with bus duty, but that’s completely outside with masks. Not ideal, but way better than the alternative. She also applied for a job at my company to get into instructional design so hopefully she gets out of education completely.
3 Likes
It was about 50/50 virtual to in person learning for my girlfriend’s school. Second grade only has 23 students split between two classes though. She’s going to spread them all out as much as possible.
I’m stressing hard about it.
2 Likes
How much money would you guys want to be intentionally infected with COVID? Assume there’s no infection risk to any of your loved ones.
1 Like
This is tough.
If it were just “feel really shitty for 2 weeks and then 100% recovery”, it wouldn’t take that much. But the long-term effects that have been reported have me pretty spooked.