@taverngirl My 19 year old has been working 9 hour overnight shifts stocking shelves and then sleeping most of the day. He’s actually been working too much, has little free time and hates the overnight hours. He’s got an interview today with a sporting goods retailer that just reopened - keeping my fingers crossed for that one. At least around here it seems there are lots of retail jobs available. Can your son apply for a job somewhere?
He’s hoping to get his restaurant job back, but they won’t be opening for another week, and then at low capacity. He’s looked into several other jobs, but he needed to be 18 for them, which he is not yet. We are going on vacation for two weeks shortly, so he will continue looking when we get back (if he does not end up back at his old job) but not sure how many people will want to hire him for the one month period before he heads to college.
He’s not the typical self-motivated CC student, so he would not find an intense language immersion fun. He is interested in purchasing and restoring a car so has spent some of his YouTube time learning how to work on certain systems. We have had many discussions trying to brainstorm things for him to do but haven’t really gotten anywhere. I think we will just put him in charge of some house projects that need to be done (scrape and paint garage, relay a patio) but with neither H or myself around most of the day due to work, I have a feeling progress will be slow.
Another state hitting the pause button on further re-opening but only for a week (so far) to see where the numbers go
“Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon said on Thursday that she was pausing efforts to reopen the state’s economy for a week because of a recent rise in virus cases. Ms. Brown said her state — which has had one of the lowest rates of confirmed cases per capita in the nation — was placing county applications for reopenings on hold to give public health experts time to ensure that the virus wasn’t spreading too quickly. She described the move as a “yellow light.”
And in Maryland:
“In Maryland, the state’s top health official pushed back after the governor announced an easing of restrictions on indoor gatherings. While Maryland’s rate of new cases has been decreasing in recent weeks, the state reported more than 500 new cases on Wednesday.”
It will be interesting to watch Maryland in the next few weeks.
My 18yo has been doing too much screen time also (including during his very-frequent core workouts). But he is always willing to help with chores and help his brother with math too. His summer job was cancelled due to the virus, and he’s applied to two more.
@taverngirl two of my three teens at home are working. They both just started last week. One is working at a small produce stand that also sells plants. It is located in a shopping center parking lot so he is outside all day, basically watering plants, etc. The other got a job at a dog grooming place. It just reopened last week. Normally it’s open for customers to wash their own dogs or get their dogs bathed/groomed by staff, but right now it’s not open to the public. He basically bathes and blow dries dogs all day. ? I’d love to be a fly on the wall to see him in action!
TBH, I was a little nervous about them working as we have been very careful WRT social distancing. However, they spent the last three months at home, just doing school work, playing video games, streaming tv shows and working out in our garage (both play sports so trying to stay in shape). I’m glad they now have something to do where they can be around others without having too much exposure.
My youngest is 15 and would love to have a job but most places around here don’t hire 15 y/o kids. Typically, she sleeps late, reads, sometimes rides her bike, goes paddle boarding or kayaking with a neighbor, occasionally she bakes or makes dinner. She and I have been at the beach two hours away at our family vacation home for the last two weeks. It’s been nice to have a change of scenery but we are going home today.
Don’t know if this has been posted yet, so apologies if it’s a repeat.
“We show that, when face masks are used by the public all the time (not just from when symptoms first appear), the effective reproduction number, Re, can be decreased below 1, leading to the mitigation of epidemic spread,” the scientists wrote in the paper published Wednesday by the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
The modeling indicated that when lockdown periods are combined with 100% face mask use, disease spread is vastly diminished, preventing resurgence for 18 months, the time frame that has frequently been cited for developing a vaccine. It also demonstrated that if people wear masks in public, it is twice as effective at reducing the R number than if face coverings are only worn after symptoms appear.“
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Study-100-face-mask-use-could-crush-second-15333450.php
I haven’t eaten outside at a restaurant, but I do pass them on my walks. Some have tables placed so that patrons are 6’ apart, but most place the tables 6’ apart. This only keeps patrons SD’d if the patrons sit on the tables. Once chairs are placed around, nobody is 6’ away from the next table. I don’t think that was what was intended by the guidelines.
This is why I’ll just be getting takeout for now.
We will have an outdoor picnic with DD and her husband this weekend. Neither has been anywhere but their house except to get groceries. Masked!
This could be the last time we see them on a while as DD starts a residency in emergency medicine and once she starts that, I don’t think we will see her?
DS has a telemedicine appointment today. He has a little sore throat and is concerned. This was supposed to be an in person appointment but this is AZ. I think the doctor is doing as much telemedicine as possible now…again.
just checked and many of the restaurants/pubs have started up team Trivia again. Maybe that is why GA allows unlimited seating at restaurants now :). Honestly I really miss my Trivia, but will likely start with just my family and one set of friends that we have been seeing. One place has tons of outdoor seating as well.
I do wonder if the 15-20 year olds will be considered a lost generation, in the future. So many of the high school kids basically got no education this spring, and may not this fall either. Some will drop out and some will not attend a college at all now. Younger kids will have time to catch up and those graduating from college can do so quickly, but for the rest of the high school/college cohort, these may be lost years.
The oldest members of Gen Z suffered the most job losses in the shutdown, and of course the long term projections for those graduating during a recession are discouraging. That generation really will have a lot of challenges.
While outside doing chores this morning my mind went back to wondering how homicides compared to the Top Causes of Death on this graphic posted some time a day or two ago, so I looked it up. Scroll down and push play for the graphic showing where Covid fits in:
https://www.wmur.com/article/coronavirus-leading-causes-of-death-in-the-united-states/32380058
Homicides:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
There were 19,510 homicides according to the CDC and quick math (19,510/365) shows that to be 53.45 per day on average so it fits in right under lung obstruction.
Then my mind mused about how far most of us go to avoid being a homicide statistic (or violent crime) with locking doors, avoiding certain places, taking various precautions, etc.
I wonder if the Covid anti-mask (and other precautions) folks take any of those precautions to avoid homicide. If just 5% of the Covid deaths are in healthier people (vs those in death’s shadow) the numbers don’t differ by much.
The majority of non-mask wearers seem to be in the same 15-25 age group that is the highest risk for homicide. Car accidents, as well. Youthful risk-taking perhaps?
While on vacation and revisiting my home town in WI, I visited with a gal who has two boys in public school in a town of 10,000 people with not much of any exposure to C-19. The school board is trying to figure out, along with the recommendations by the State of WI health officers, how to reopen in the fall. She received a questionnaire asking if they would be willing to give up recess…
I feel for all the students and their parents.
I know UA (Alabama) is going to open in the fall with regular classes. I believe they had to make a decision to get normal back on track.
I talked to a friend who is tenured faculty at a UW (Wisconsin) campus (not main one in Madison). UW has a current President who wants to retire/step down once a new President is appointed. A number of candidates didn’t stay in the selection process because they didn’t want to jeopardize their current positions according to the WI State Journal last Sunday. I know from following from afar that the main campus and system are complaining about less state funding and inability to raise in-state tuition. At one time, it was proposed to have the main campus break off from the system - which is not what citizens of WI want. I understand the flagship for the State wants to hold its place nationally.
I don’t follow TX universities at this point (attended U of Houston and TAMU with graduate degree from TAMU) but may be doing so if DD/SIL/GKids end up in TX.
Our new paradigm with C-19…
That would make sense. It’s definitely plausible.
The phrase “avoid it like the plague” needs to be put in the obsolete language category, as clearly many people in my state just don’t do it.
I think quarantine fatigue, coupled with the legitimate need to salvage some part of our economy, as well as a bit of wishful thinking that the virus has magically disappeared, has dampened enthusiasm for, and compliance with, even the most easy to follow guidelines, such as maintaining social distancing and wearing masks. Not everyone of course, but enough that it’s showing up as rising cases/hospitalizations.
We had several windows replaced in our house yesterday in advance of listing it for sale. DH had to remind one of the guys numerous times to wear his dang mask while inside the house. The guy was apologetic; there was no malice at all, but it was clear that wearing a mask was not something he has made a habit of doing.
After they left (took all day), I wiped down all door handles and our stair rail, as well as all window hardware. But it was a hot day, and the smell of man BO was strong the rest of the evening. Yuck. We still have carpet cleaning, paint touch up, and furniture delivery before we are done with having strangers in the house. And then of course, the prospect of having real estate showings looms. Really not looking forward to this, especially if the house is on the market for a long time. But we have no choice.
Our company has summer hours from Memorial day to Labor day. You work 9 hours a day and take every other Friday off or every Friday afternoon. My co-worker and I are taking this friday afternoon off so she will come and have lunch with me in my patio. We haven’t seen each other since end of Feb. I can’t wait to see her. We will be outside, won’t wear mask but with appropriate social distance. It’s a small risk we are taking for the good of our soul lol.
Sounds stressful! Wishing you a quick sale at a great price!
My aunt believes masks don’t work so doesn’t think she will wear them when it is hot. I sent her the link from cardinal fang from yesterday on the Cambridge and Greenwich U study that showed that if even 50% wear them (cloth masks), that the RO goes below 1 meaning cases go down. I hope people will wear them in public. It can save people’s lives. There is asymptomatic spread and so we don’t know who is passing it on to others and who isn’t. Thanks to all those wearing them in public. I appreciate it greatly.
Just checked the USTA tournament schedules for my S21. Almost all of the Boys 18 and under tournaments have been cancelled. There are a few tournaments accepting registrations, but there are pretty strict rules - eg., only allowed to bring one person to the tournament, temps taken upon entrance of club, spectators must enforce 6 feet social distance and wear a mask, players and spectators must wear a mask while in club, players to only come to court 15 minutes ahead of time, etc. Meanwhile, we are watching a lot of college programs cut men’s tennis. I’m really glad he has decided that he does not want to play in college.
Most studies I have seen show that the top to ways to avoid homicide in the US are
- don’t hang out with criminals
- don’t stay in an abusive relationship
I’m not going to look up links, but every time I see a study those are the top items. So I’m pretty safe from homicide, although a very small number occur outside that set.
Most people wear seat belts, but it took years of PSAs and other pressure tactics. And still many people don’t, including most of those killed in car accidents.
People in my suburb continue to believe it’s ok to leave cars in the driveway unlocked with keys, phones, computers and wallets in them. And it is, really, but they sometimes to get ransacked and stolen to the complete astonishment of the owners.
Maybe now that we know the hair stylists did not infect their customers the new claim will be that it’s ok to go out in public when you are sick and symptomatic as long as you wear a mask. I hope not, but suspect it’s coming.