Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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Boston public schools started today 100% remotely after the first day of school has been pushed back by a couple weeks.
Their plan is to still try hybrid learning and hope to switch over to hybrid learning now on 10/1.
Currently, it's the logistic issues with figuring out bussing that is holding up the in person classes.
Their plan is to still try hybrid learning and hope to switch over to hybrid learning now on 10/1.
Currently, it's the logistic issues with figuring out bussing that is holding up the in person classes.
Colds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back
The return of non-Covid respiratory illnesses is putting a new strain on testing supplies around the world—and is a preview of what’s in store for the US.
Interesting read on how the common cold disappeared under the lockdown. Now it's coming back. Which means COVID-19 will likely follow as well.
Jan
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Covid is starting to come back in Europe alreadyColds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back
The return of non-Covid respiratory illnesses is putting a new strain on testing supplies around the world—and is a preview of what’s in store for the US.www.wired.com
Interesting read on how the common cold disappeared under the lockdown. Now it's coming back. Which means COVID-19 will likely follow as well.
On the local news this morning they were talking about getting kids back to school in in person classes.
One thing they noticed when looking at the data were the 16 towns that have been in the green with almost no new cases over the last 2 months are all doing 100% remote learning this fall.
And did this not flyover well with a comity of lawmakers. They said the data shows it is safe to resume in person classes in their communities. They are calling for the school districts to resume in person classes and gave them a deadline to get back to the comity with their plans to resume in person classes.
One thing they noticed when looking at the data were the 16 towns that have been in the green with almost no new cases over the last 2 months are all doing 100% remote learning this fall.
And did this not flyover well with a comity of lawmakers. They said the data shows it is safe to resume in person classes in their communities. They are calling for the school districts to resume in person classes and gave them a deadline to get back to the comity with their plans to resume in person classes.
Chinese tycoon who criticized Xi Jinping's handling of coronavirus jailed for 18 years
A Chinese billionaire who criticized President Xi Jinping's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been jailed for 18 years on corruption charges, a court said Tuesday.
At least here in the United States we are not jailing people as far as I know who are Criticizing Trump's handling of coronavirus.
5 NFL teams and coaches who didn't wear masks during games face more than $1 million in fines
Two more NFL teams, the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders, are being fined $250,000 each because their head coaches were not wearing face coverings during a game Monday, a league source told CNN on Tuesday.
Go NFL
Hollywood
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Not to mention code orange
Turbo
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Not to mention code orange
Not "orange" in Gatineau yet... but I expect it by the end of the week. Unfortunately, the acceleration in both our towns feels steeper than the first time around TBH.
Be careful out there... I think there are a lot more cases in the wild here right now than there ever were. Yesterday I did some scratch pad calculations for Gatineau using an RT of 1.1-1.2, which is conservative, and came up with roughly 70-80 cases at home awaiting positive results and another ~300-ish already infected/infectious but that will begin showing symptoms in 1-4 days. And I think I underestimated the testing delay, so it's probably even higher. The numbers would higher in Ottawa but the proportions appear similar.
Hollywood
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bother
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i'm just moaning here-- but I got jury duty. I'm a stand by juror, which is good and probably means I won't get called, but I'm pretty unhappy about it. I've been really, really careful and I've barely gone out in the last six months, the last thing I want to do is to be stuck inside for potentially hours at a time in a courthouse with random strangers. I know the justice system can't just stop indefinitely, I'm just unhappy about having to risk exposure over this. Still, hopefully I won't get called.
Turbo
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We have the lowest increase in two weeks on this side of the river, for some reason. My personal feeling is that it's a delay in testing, but we'll see in the next few days.
Turbo
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They just moved up our alert level to "orange" despite the lower case #'s today - the authorities probably know something. The recent increases have been record-breaking day after day anyway. The % positivity of the tests was around 5% other than today, which is quite high. From what I understand, this change in level mainly limits gathering sizes at home and in certain public places and shuts restaurants and bars earlier. Too soft to make a major difference TBH, but we'll see.
Hollywood
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Not good my friend not good. We are now sitting at 93 cases today here in Ottawa. Largest single day spike since this whole thing started. To make matters worse they are all cases in people under the age of 40.
Turbo
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Not good my friend not good. We are now sitting at 93 cases today here in Ottawa. Largest single day spike since this whole thing started. To make matters worse they are all cases in people under the age of 40.
Agreed.
What's always hard to keep in mind with this, is that the test results come out several days after someone developed symptoms and then that person was infectious for up to 4 days prior. There is likely to be multiple times that amount of unknowingly infectious people out and about right now. We just hope contact tracing is quick enough to at least put some of them in preventative isolation.
We already started in-person classes. I'll update y'all in another week or two when things shut down again.
jaycee
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Wonder if it was political or financial pressure that caused them to backtrack.
Sounds like political pressure for sure:
I don't see anything about whether or not there will be people in attendance of the games yet in this article. But I suspect that will be on a school by school state by state basis.
Football and basketball are one of the biggest revenue streams for Universities / Colleges.
It's both but this like everything else is about $. The money is also partially why predators like Jerry Sandusky are ignored by other men in power. The southern schools were going to keep bringing in the capital, albeit somewhat decreased I'm sure, and the Big 10 and Pac 12 were not. Mostly this all just demonstrates further that these athletes are worth far more than they are being paid.