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What's everyone up to right now?
RE: What's everyone up to right now?
My wife is a teacher. I told her to tell the principle that she will quit before she will go back to school. It is crazy to send kids back to school before there is a vaccine for covid-19.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
Watching the trees do the hula. I love Tornado Alley.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
I can't really afford to quit my job. But thankfully my district decided to go against the parents wishes, and not have in-person learning except for a few exceptions (Special Needs, Those without access to high speed internet, and ESL students)
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
(August 10, 2020 at 6:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: My wife is a teacher. I told her to tell the principle that she will quit before she will go back to school. It is crazy to send kids back to school before there is a vaccine for covid-19.

One of my brothers is head custodian for a high school. He works year-round because all kinds of repairs get done in the summer. Practically nobody has access to his office, so he's OK, there. It's actually his busiest time. His wife is a nursing aide, or whatever they are called. Her "office" is a 6 foot by ten foot cubby crammed full of medical supplies and paperwork storage cabinets. On a give day she may see 40 or special needs kids, and has to don and doff protective gear for each one if the school reopens before the covid threat abates. If their school goes back into session without cessation of the covid threat after the one-quarter delay the district is set to implement, they are both simply going to retire.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
(August 10, 2020 at 8:12 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(August 10, 2020 at 6:36 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: My wife is a teacher. I told her to tell the principle that she will quit before she will go back to school. It is crazy to send kids back to school before there is a vaccine for covid-19.

One of my brothers is head custodian for a high school. He works year-round because all kinds of repairs get done in the summer. Practically nobody has access to his office, so he's OK, there. It's actually his busiest time. His wife is a nursing aide, or whatever they are called. Her "office" is a 6 foot by ten foot cubby crammed full of medical supplies and paperwork storage cabinets. On a give day she may see 40 or special needs kids, and has to don and doff protective gear for each one if the school reopens before the covid threat abates. If their school goes back into session without cessation of the covid threat after the one-quarter delay the district is set to implement, they are both simply going to retire.

That sounds awful! Yep, they should quit!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
Interpretative translation results in loss/corruption of meaning.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
My wife and I are both ill, she has had a nasal swab done this morning at a drive through testing center in Portland. No results yet, and I have not been tested, but it seems pretty certain that if she's positive, so am I. Thankfully we live in an area with relatively low case counts and our hospital capacity is in good shape so if we were going to get it, now is not the worst time. Personal risk factors make it scary nonetheless.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
(August 11, 2020 at 6:59 pm)Jackalope Wrote: My wife and I are both ill, she has had a nasal swab done this morning at a drive through testing center in Portland.  No results yet, and I have not been tested, but it seems pretty certain that if she's positive, so am I.  Thankfully we live in an area with relatively low case counts and our hospital capacity is in good shape so if we were going to get it, now is not the worst time.  Personal risk factors make it scary nonetheless.

Hopefully you pull through! You live in Oregon or Maine?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
(August 11, 2020 at 6:59 pm)Jackalope Wrote: My wife and I are both ill, she has had a nasal swab done this morning at a drive through testing center in Portland.  No results yet, and I have not been tested, but it seems pretty certain that if she's positive, so am I.  Thankfully we live in an area with relatively low case counts and our hospital capacity is in good shape so if we were going to get it, now is not the worst time.  Personal risk factors make it scary nonetheless.

That's rough. If you gargle some bleach it'll just go away. I know, the president endorses it. Rolleyes

Seriously, I'm hoping for the best for you both! Instead of good luck, I'll say "good medicine!"  Great
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
(August 11, 2020 at 6:59 pm)Jackalope Wrote: My wife and I are both ill, she has had a nasal swab done this morning at a drive through testing center in Portland.  No results yet, and I have not been tested, but it seems pretty certain that if she's positive, so am I.  Thankfully we live in an area with relatively low case counts and our hospital capacity is in good shape so if we were going to get it, now is not the worst time.  Personal risk factors make it scary nonetheless.

I certainly hope that neither of you have it.  Take care of yourselves and each other.

I'd send thoughts and prayers...but I think hope is more effective at this point.
What fresh hell can this be? - Dorothy Parker
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