Using the bathroom without flushing? Ewww. Like mask wearing, we need to be considerate of others a as well as looking out for ourselves.
Following it all. Overwhelming at times.
I like a little humor in my life, it makes the rest more tolerable. Hence the following gave me my chuckle for the day.
" It may take a village to raise a child, but I swear it’s going to take a whole vineyard to homeschool one."
Hopefully it brings a needed chuckle to others…
Pediatricians say it’s important for kids to return to in person school in the fall. Some teachers are resisting that.
S and FDIL, (teachers both) really want to return to the classroom in the fall.
Hey, don’t blame me; I’m not going anywhere on any road trips or otherwise. It was one of the things I’ve seen suggested in the age of COVID. The idea being, people would rather have urine accumulate in the public toilet than have all the aerosols into the air.
Seems to me to be totally unworkable. States will be open for several days, then closed for two weeks, open again for several days, then closed down again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Will be more problematic for smaller states with bigger potential swings in per caps from smaller issues.
Seems to me you would have one set of thresholds for re-opening and another (somewhat higher one) for remaining open. Remain under the second threshold and you stay open. Exceed any of them and you close back down.
No state did a true lockdown in the sense that they happened in China. Had those been put in place, the numbers in any state would have been lower. So that your cases rise when things re-open, shouldn’t automatically mean you shut back down again (as long as you stay under the stay reopened criteria).
https://www.martymd.com/books is a book describing several kinds of price gouging in medical care. It is probably not the only such book.
For those who are following this thread closely, I’ve [decided not to have a July thread](http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/2190399-july-coronavirus-thread-cancelled-p1.html?new=1). I’ll be closing this thread soon.
The choices are:
A. Shutdown more restrictively and longer than before, to bring R0 to significantly below 1 for long enough to eliminate the virus.
B. Oscillate between shutdown like before (bringing R0 to approximately 1) and reopening (allowing R0 to get significantly higher than 1).
C. Give up and reopen, allowing R0 to get significantly higher than 1 and accepting the effects of the virus on life and health and the fear of virus on the economy.
B is what you are describing, and the most likely scenario, since both A and C will be politically very unpopular.