It’s a bit too obvious that’s why I picked Vegas.
Saw a little guy at the grocery store in a safari hat with a soft clear plastic “veil” that went 360 around his head to his shoulders. He looked cool and seemed perfectly happy.
Not as protective but I think good enough when in an environment with mask wearers.
But yeah, keeping a mask on a 2 year old…
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Technically our first day of school with Florida Virtual School was last Wednesday, but really today is the first day since the last three days of last week were just get acquainted days and whatnot. No actual work was done or due. Today the rubber meets the road and they’re live and doing lessons and some of the teachers even have live zoom lectures scheduled…and since 8:30 AM it’s been this:
They’re telling us to “keep trying to login while we work on the technical issues.” Needless to say I’m beyond pissed. Florida Virtual was sold to me as the gold standard for this type of learning. They’ve been doing it for nearly 20 years, got their shit together, it should be nothing like what was thrown together at the end of last school year when all of this hit, etc etc etc. I get that there’s a massive influx of kids and they are dealing with record enrollment numbers (for them) but they’ve had all goddamned summer to figure this shit out. It’s not like they were blindsided. They knew people were going to be sending their kids here in droves and have had plenty of time to adjust their infrastructure to accommodate it. In fact I was told more than once they’d done exactly that. Now it’s this nonsense and I’m trying to deal with this and work at the same time. Or I can send my kid to live school and risk possible death for the entire family great system we have here guys 
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Looks like we finally have confirmation.
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The second infection occurred more than four months later, reportedly after the man returned to Hong Kong from Spain, via the United Kingdom.
Cool, cool.
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Iwasaki also noted that the man’s immune system, while not enough to prevent reinfection, did appear to protect him from developing COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The man’s immune system also appeared to produce antibodies that aided in fighting the reinfection.
Wait what? Since when are we calling COVID-19 “the disease caused by the coronavirus”? So we’re doing HIV/AIDS now? I’m not complaining but this is the first I’ve ever seen this.
Also extremely important in that last paragraph - so he’s asymptomatic and t-cells have appeared to quickly produce antibodies. Isn’t that what t-cells are supposed to do and why we’ve been mostly optimistic about long-term immunity in this? I mean it’s not like t-cells are a shield that just bounces the virus off of you. You have to get it a little, then they go into action, right?
So of course the $billion question which they don’t answer - is the guy infectious right now? I guess so?
I don’t think this is confirmation. This, like all the other reports, is explained by viral particles that a fancy schmancy test picked up not a new symptomatic infection.
And yes @suzzer99 the COVID-19 has always been the disease with sars-cov-2 being the virus
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The virus is officially called SARS-CoV-2, but I think we’re just gonna call it COVID to avoid confusion.
Possibly related?
“Can we guarantee the post office wont deliver stacks of ballots to abandoned houses?”
Are you fucking kidding me
Just to hop on this, COVID-19 is short for COronaVIrus Disease 2019.
at least 6 months
no. but don’t even worry about what t cells do. watch a good tv show, rewatch a great tv show, learn an instrument, get high, idk. there’s no reason to think about t cells
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I think about t cells all the time tbh.
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Nah, it’s not Zoom. It’s the Web site for the virtual school itself. I’m sure the Zoom lectures are offline as well…but she can’t even access those, you have to get into the actual site to be able to link to the Zoom lectures. We can’t get logged in at all, even to access stuff that has nothing to do with Zoom.
And I’m not talking about the stuff the school system threw together at the last minute to teach the kids from home either, like they did after spring break. I’m talking about a real Virtual School that is set up and designed to run virtually, that has been around for years and years. It’s not new, at all. That’s precisely the reason I went with this option. The only thing different here is that there are a lot more kids this year than they are used to, which I totally get can and will cause problems on occasion but, again, they’ve had all summer to prepare for this. The virus didn’t just hit last week. I’ve got no choice but to be patient with them, but it’s really ridiculous that they aren’t ready by now. They didn’t have to start this week…plenty of districts pushed their start dates back until after Labor Day to ensure they had their infrastructure up to snuff.
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Bullshit. No one says “oh yeah he’s positive for coronaivirus but asymptomatic, thankfully he didn’t catch covid” - like they do with HIV/AIDS.
Show me one post on this forum that makes a distinction like that.
Right. So if I “get infected with the coronavirus a second time” but I’m asymptomatic because my t-cells are kicking in - are people still usually infectious in that situation, based on other coronaviruses? Because if you get infected a second time, but you’re asymptomatic and not infectious, then who cares?
Correct.
Correct what - they are infectious?
that’s the way it is. sars-cov-2 is the virus itself, covid-19 is the disease caused by sars-cov-2 infection.
if they’re infected i’d think so. probably throwing out less of the virus than someone without any immunity, but a necessary part of the infection is lots of new viruses being produced in the lungs