It’s hard man. And I don’t just mean emotionally and mentally exhausting. The very concept you’re asking people to explore is a skill on its own, and a lot of people don’t know where to begin. It feels like swallowing a whale. It makes sense in a very abstract sense but becomes hard to explore or manifest when applied to a specific life that has been free of such thoughts.
What I mean is that people may lack the motivation, but not for the reasons you suspect. It may be a secondary effect from all of the other obstacles they’re facing just to take the first step that comes much more easily for you.
I’m not sure I can really last much longer than next summer. I personally think we most likely see some sort of vaccine by early 2021, but it will take several months to distribute and measure its efficacy.
I can still golf with relatively low risk, which is my only hobby other than gaming. So I think I’ll be fine. I’m not sure the rest of the country will be though. The biggest thing I miss is sex, not sure i’m gonna last a year.
I felt the same. The schools here seem to be really doing a good job with the distance learning. Some of the teachers are more lax than others (running like 20 minutes of class time instead of 50) but for the most part they all seem really into how well this is working. We are heading into week 2 today.
Facing massive backlog of uncounted COVID deaths, FL medical examiners streamline review
BY BEN WIEDER
AUGUST 14, 2020 02:53 PM , UPDATED AUGUST 14, 2020 06:57 PM
Medical examiner’s offices in South Florida have a backlog of more than 1,200 suspected COVID-19 deaths awaiting certification, according to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission.
Medical examiner offices had struggled to keep up with a recent spike in COVID-19 deaths, with more than 2,300 deaths reported statewide in just the past two weeks, according to the Florida Department of Health.
The health department relies on its own information in determining the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state and didn’t respond immediately to a question about whether the backlog of medical examiner cases impacts the state’s numbers.
My friend is a teacher at a private school in Atlanta and the PPE they gave her is comical.
The school has some hearing impaired children so they supplied entirely clear masks. Except the masks aren’t masks because you aren’t breathing through a fabric medium; the mask is literally just a piece of plastic that is lodged in front of your mouth; it is open to the air on either side.
They also provided face shields, but they’re the crappy kind with staples against your skin.
And the kicker is they only provided 4 face shields for like 70 teachers.
A big lesson from COVID is that organizations are terrible at doing things outside of their core competence. I had always known this, but the degree to which, for instance, MLB cannot come up with a competent plan when they have 5 months to prepare, is surprising even to me.
I know this isn’t a new thought, but it’s still so unsettling to me how easily we have absorbed 200K deaths like it’s nothing. Hospitals aren’t overflowing, there’s not really panic, our elected officials don’t give a shit. I’m pretty desensitized at this point, even.
Not sure if slow pony but somehow my Wiki readings on lol pro wrestling stuff landed me on Jordan Peterson’s page, which tells me he’s been hooked on klonopin for years and now he also has Covid which is something else I tell you what.
Yea your pony is slow, it was discussed somewhere here that he got it and likely from his daughter who was on social media in crowded areas, talking shit about it being no big deal etc
I know it shouldn’t at this point, but it still amazes me that Trump can say his administration has done “an incredible job” with a straight face. I guess if you define “incredible” as “lacking credibility,” but man.
My nephew is a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill, living in the dorms. My sister (his mom) and family live in Durham. She is obese and has asthma. My father, who is in excellent health but is 85, also lives in the immediate area. Very concerned about all the ways this can go wrong.
Have any local politicians been making mask-wearing a campaign issue anywhere? I’m mainly interested in challengers to an anti-mask incumbent or established politician going for a higher office than previous.
