Got Kids? Trying too figure out what you are going to do regarding school this year?
This video made me laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg2YvURCysk
yep, this is pretty much where I'm at.
My district's *current* plan is online only through the end of September; at that point, students will either continue 100% virtual or will attend 2 days a week. (Half of attending students will attend Monday and Tuesday and the other half Thursday and Friday, while the schools are closed Wednesday for deep cleaning.)
My intuition tells me that by the time the end of September lumbers around, it will be deemed too unsafe to return to schools for even two days a week, and everyone will be 100% virtual whether they like it or not.
US Representative from Texas Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus. Gohmert is among the most conservative members of Congress and has refused to wear a mask on Capitol Hill.
He was around Bob Barr yesterday and was supposed to fly to Texas with Trump this am.
Things are getting interesting.
Well, it appears there is a positive thing about Trump right now. (If we look deeply, we can find at least one good thing right?)
He has anyone who will be around him tested ahead of time for the virus. People who don't know they are sick find out sooner than they would have otherwise found out, thus limiting the further spread of Covid. In some cases, the person is completely asymptomatic so it will halt the super spreading from that individual. I don't know if that is the case in this situation, but it has happened to others who have tested positive before they were supposed to meet up with Trump. It doesn't change the results of all the other Covid spreading cases his actions have caused however.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize-winning economist expressed his views on how Trump's handling of the pandemic is further crippling our economy. The U.S., controlling for population size, has 15 times the amount of Covid as other countries . https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/us-republicans-coronavirus.html
A young lady who works as a bagger in a Houston grocery store has contracted Covid-45 from unmasked customers she was forced to interact with. She has autism, and has worked at Randall's Groceries for 20 years, the only job she has ever had. She wore a mask, and was always careful. The customers, not so much, as Randall's didn't even require them to wear masks until late June(!).
I have friends that live near that same store, and I have actually shopped there a few times in the past. I quit going there though, because, for one thing it was way more expensive than other stores. But the thing that really bugged me about the place was the way the employees and security guards would follow me around, frowning, and acting like i was there to shoplift. I guess my hair was too nappy or my clothes were too happy to be able to shop there in peace.
Well, it turns out Randall's is owned by republican right-wingers (surprise, surprise!), and as such, are more concerned with having the "right kind" of customers, than with the health and safety of their employees and the public at large.
By the time the lady who got Covid-45 while working there realized she was ill, she had already passed it to her elderly parents, whom she lives with. The Mom and the Dad are both in the hospital, with the Dad on a ventilator. They are not sure if he will survive.
Here is a link to the story in the Baltimore Sun: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-nyt-covid-19-face-masks-20200726-ynyfhmvn2nhdjeqg2xp4cdsuju-story.html
@lovendures I'm glad that carriers are tested and stopped from spreading, but thinking about the fact that Donald Trump has people tested before meeting with him infuriates me. As if protecting his health is for the good of the country.
@unk-p Here in Houston, Randalls is the most expensive non organic, then Kroger, then HEB, then Walmart. Some people still don't wear masks at HEB, went to Walmart and people actually wore masks. There is a Wholefoods and Target near me on Westheimer and it has always had people with masks which makes me happy. Now the suburbs, Katy, Sugarland are pretty much awful when it comes to masks in my experience.