Just talked to my sister. All UNC classes are now online, but the dorms aren’t closed or anything. I believe the penalty for canceling your housing contract has been removed so I’m sure plenty of students will leave, but of course many will stay as well. Also, people stuck in leases/contracts with apartments, fraternity/sorority houses, and other off-campus housing are still on the hook. And of course bars are still open.
What the fuck is the point of canceling classes and leaving the dorms open. This country is ran by clowns top to bottom.
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Schools are going to collect that tuition and then cancel classes 2 weeks later. Nice grift.
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Slight ray of hope. I had my first day of in-person teaching for my college today. Kept all my classes outside and told my students 6ft minimum distance, 10 if they wanted to go above and beyond for those around them. They universally chose the 10.
Gen Z is actually awesome. They just don’t know or fully appreciate everything that we do.
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Because that makes the college the most money. also see, why they started up then cancelled immediately
On the plus side, that now makes one valuable lesson any student will ever learn there. Previously this was zero.
edit–guess that UNC jacket I’m trying to sell isn’t gonna do well now…
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Follow up to my posting earlier about how stage 3 trials are having trouble even filling up.
Blacks for Trump will be volunteering in large numbers according to their billboards.
Aren’t they tracking down since right around the time the Trump administration took over handling the data?
We’re probably missing way less cases in most areas, contributing to a lower CFR, and the treatments and demos are better, but there’s no way some of these asshole governors like Kemp and DeSantis aren’t directing people to do things that miss some deaths. Less testing in nursing homes would be a really easy way. I haven’t researched it or read on it, but you know they’re doing something.
Are you out of your goddamn mind?
That’s awesome! The magnitude of work you guys are doing for humanity is hard to even measure.
I still don’t get this one. I get that it cannot be absorbed through the digestive tract, but smear transmission occurs by touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Why can I get it by touching my mouth but not eating food?
And yet I bet they cry poor and jack up rates a ton for 2021 because there’s a pandemic…
As a science believing northeasterner, that’s the nicest thing you can say about us right now!
The Dow Jones doesn’t make itself go up.
Actually it does, apparently… But it goes faster if our government is telling us to get back out there it’s all getting better.
Look at positivity rates. When I was tracking it, LA was testing way more than other states with lots of cases, and positivity rates weren’t so bad.
FWIW people like me with high risk taking full precautions appreciate everyone doing what they can, and whenever I see people being stupid my feeling is, “Welp, there’s yet another person who couldn’t care less if I live or die.”
This has really reminded me how worthless and meaningless I am to this country and society - how worthless and meaningless we all are beyond our net worth and economic contributions. So people putting in an effort for those of us who are at risk really does at least show some people give a fuck, which helps both in terms of staying healthy and in terms of not completely giving up.
I just had an image of Trumpers being unable to do any physical labor and the rest of us insulting these dudes’ masculinity for it while handling all of society’s physical tasks, like going up the stairs to grab something from upstairs.
Give them a job they can WFH at, which you pay them to start and then they take over if they start generating money from it. Can be anything Internet based. They make some money, it doesn’t feel like a handout, and they could actually end up building it into something.
They don’t get to socialize from it, though. Maybe host some outdoor, distanced hangouts for them with friends?
I did some web design in high school. I was halfway decent, and the small company my Dad worked for needed a website. He got the owner to meet with me, they wanted to go cheap, so I got the gig. I used that to get hired by a small business doing web design for like $10/hr when minimum wage was $6.15. I used it to save up and buy a car.
What’s something that they like and could have a shot to make some money at?
Hope you feel 100% soon! Just take it easy if you can.
I’ve had a bunch of weird/random symptoms too. The consensus here and among friends seems to be that it’s stress related. I’m starting to do better but I’m still super fatigued, which obviously could be stress. I’ve had random cramps in my arms lately, and some pain in my digestive tract, but I ate unhealthy for a couple days which could cause it.
I’m trying to make myself chalk everything up to the simple and non-serious explanations.
I’m sorry you guys have to go through that as a family. Nobody should have to, especially not because others are too selfish to take collective precautions. But hang in there and I hope you get some quality time with your Aunt and she’s feeling well while you’re there.
What’s the optimal time to do so? Like now or wait another month or two? You only get like 4-6 months of immunity right?
Look for someone with similar precautionary habits or willing to quarantine for two weeks…
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Quickie update from Steven Millman:
August 17th COVID Update: Yet One More Grim Milestone
Today, in just six months, COVID-19 passed the typical ANNUAL death toll from ALL accidents in the US to become (at least) 2020’s THIRD leading cause of death. In the United States in 2020 you are more likely to die of COVID-19 than any other cause other than Heart Disease and Cancer. It’s clearly not just a typical flu. Check out my visualization here and lets pray this is as high up the list as we get:
There’s either a typo in that graphic or I missed a really big news story in 2017-2019.
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The good news is that infecting all the young people should significantly lower our IFR and I was told by the world’s foremost expert on knowing stuff that that is the most important measure of a country’s success in fighting COVID.
This has to be pure trolling, right? Right?
RIGHT?
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Other people decided it was trolling when he first posted it.
I looked at all 4 replies and nobody mentioned trolling. Although perhaps one or two replies could be inferred that way, maybe.
Weird question I haven’t seen answered… There seems to be growing speculation (evidence, I think?) that past cases of common cold caused by coronaviruses can cause some degree of immunity for us.
Why are we not discussing:
A) Testing for this.
B) Infecting ourselves with common cold coronaviruses to receive those benefits.
Like, surely B could be done quicker and easier than a vaccine, right? It wouldn’t be as effective, but for the next several months it would seem the benefits FAR outweigh the risks for most of us. I’d gladly be sick for 7-10 days to reduce my COVID-19 risk significantly.
A)Merica
B)LOL at your average American signing up for cold injections
C)It would probably be cheap and effective so how do you make any money off of it.
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I mentioned this like 3 or 4 months ago and I’m pretty sure the only response was something like, “they obviously have to be looking at this already.”
It is so weird and hard having someone in the hospital during COVID. We can’t visit without permission, so we spend the day sitting around the house waiting for updates from the nurse via phone. It makes it feel less real somehow. I mean, it was cousins and aunts and uncles in the house, some trying to work, it was my little cousin’s first day of remote 3rd grade, so we had to be quiet for a few hours, etc.
So we sat around and watched TV, basically the same thing we’d do in a hospital waiting room, just in my aunt’s house. Very surreal. Didn’t get to visit today because it’s tightly controlled, and the critical care floor she’s on had 3 codes, and was crazy busy, so everything was pushed back. She’s stable, so hopefully tomorrow.
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