Went to the grocery store. Couple of maskless disease vectors running around outside attempting to sell shit to people. They approached me and I said firmly “No thank you, please dont come any closer.” They continued to come towards me, so I looked over them at their mothers (also maskless) and said “you need to get these children the fuck away from me and put on some fucking masks, morons.”
Dont feel particularly good about myself, but they were pushing flyers into people’s hands too.
Holy shit I’m steamed
It kind of defeats the purpose of being outside if everybody is crowding into tents. Most patio heaters can’t be used in enclosures anyway, and they don’t really do much when it’s really cold.
I’m really really not either. This will bug me for days. I’ve just got more important things to worry about than hurting anyone’s feelings right now. I’m sure I’ll be the subject of a Nextdoor post tonight
Right - a lot of good heaters can do 30 with tents though. Much lower and not so much. They won’t be much use in the Midwest in Dec-Feb.
I have no idea how much a tent that’s open a little on two sides helps vs. being inside. You see them around LA a lot though. So I assume you’ll see them everywhere.
I’m going to make sure all my midwestern friends who think LA is a cesspool no normal person would ever want to live in see me dining outside in Feb.
I’ve got these heat lamps on my deck and they’re pretty much useless. On a day that it’s nice enough to be outside, you don’t need them, and on cold days they don’t do nearly enough. I’d say there is probably about a 3 degree window in which I’d be glad to have them and I haven’t experienced that yet.
I just picked up my laundry. Fucking boomer moron is in the tiny little office room with the poor laundry woman with no mask. Being nice as hell but just not giving a fuck. Of course she’s in no position to tell him off. I thought about it, but I hate confrontation and there’s no guarantee I don’t make the situation worse.
I’ve been giving her $20+ tip since covid. Pretty much the same with anyone I tip. I know I’m lucky to still have a good job where I can work from home.
This is a good comment, what strikes me as the most meaningful trend is that relatively well off families will do okay - their kids have space to work, IT infrastructure to do remote schooling, etc. What’s really troubling isn’t that the “median” child is going to be damaged, it’s that there is going to be a pronounced distribution of experience where, surprise!, poor kids get royally fucked.
If anything, the horrendous impact on social development in children probably is more a symptom of catastrophic inequality than anything else.
I’m in a tiny school district. Only a few hundred kids. We have a choice between 100% remote and hybrid. So far the only two kids pozzed have both been fully remote. Makes no sense but that’s what we’ve been told.
And I’m honestly of the opinion now that kids may really be getting screwed up without socializing. More on this later when I have more courage.
I ate on a deck at Maynards on Lake Minnetonka. They have the entire deck area surounded by clear plastic sheeting panels (Flexible and very clear, very good views of the lake). Some gap to allow air movement. Open on the top, about half the deck is under the roof deck in case of raining. Lots of heaters. It was about 55 and we were comfortable wo our coats. Will be OK probably into the 40s, maybe 30s. So maybe until Thanksgiving if they are lucky in Minnesota. Blocking the wind was huge. You could feel healthy air circulation with the hot air down low mixing with the colder air above.
I’ve eaten (and more often boozed it up) outside under heaters in temps down below freezing and been totally comfortable. But I like it on the cold side anyway.
re; schools. As with anything, there is a big difference between best practices and actual practices. If people can maintain good discipline then schools should be minor contributors, BUT it takes one event to really F up a community. If OFS then clubs are happening, sports are happening, just more gatherings and more opportunities for mistakes to be made. Statistically the cost in the students. Its the teacher and more than that its the associated community spread.
If EVERYBODY could just stay the F home for a month and 100% mask compliance for necessary errands, we could really knock this thing down. But that will never happen in the US now. We are just too stupid.
