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Nice dinner out in East Brookfield. First time eating out with the family since February

If people would plant the mystery seeds they have been getting the aliens would come

Daughter discovered a yellow jacket nest under our screen porch. Not what I wanted to be dealing with today

Maybe I can still do a Tuesday beach day

A younger Ginxy? https://www.ecori.org/natural-resources/2020/7/30/wakefield-boy-finds-giant-quahog-in-secret-location

Could go annular

Our son’s school contracted testing with the Broad Institute (one of my old customers). They plan on testing all staff and students twice a week for the first month, then once per week. They really seem to have done a good job with the safety end but our son feels the experience isn’t there this semester so will be doing remote (saving a ton of $$$ too)

Hopefully a safe vaccine can come out soon. Going to be a rough time. Lots of people will die from this, economy will continue to suffer, education will take a hit. I do think of those three the education part will be the easiest to recover from. We took a bike trip out in Hadley/Amherst today. Close to 20 miles. I’ve never done that before. Awesome day. Loaded up on stuff at a place called Maple Farms. Made a huge charcuterie board. I’m going to explode Say our trip to The Andrea next week looks not so good

Another up day in Mass. Dang

If spiking is happening continue remote? If not ??? I have no clue. I just row the oars. I don’t steer the ship. I feel bad for the kids, their parents. Everyone.

Apparently this will hopefully only be the first term. Then they revisit. My building is the newest in the city and is 17 years old. Awful ventilation in many areas. not ideal. How do you think Tuesday is looking for beaching?

What if distancing wasn’t possible? I respect your opinion on here. Schools have much worse ventilation than a modern casino I would think As I mentioned if it were up to me I would be in my class with half the kids on any given day. Either alternate weeks or days. Again not ideal Not sure how the remote part works for kids when they are at home.

Did she ever contact the teachers? I know I felt handcuffed due to the inequities of things like technology Some kids could not participate fully so it was impossible to engage like we would face to face. My hope is that at least those obstacles will be gone. We also couldn’t grade things like normal so that disincentivized some kids. For young kids it really sucked. High school kids did better. At one point I think you said you wouldn’t spend time in the casino due to air quality. Would you spend time there now?

Hopefully the return to in person learning in some districts (and some are choosing full time...) doesn’t lead to siggy increases in cases etc. jury is still out. That will screech everything to a halt. I’m personally hoping I can at least work in my classroom. My setup at home (boonies) is less than ideal. Our son will be doing his university classes from our home. Possibly wife and daughter. Our bandwidth is not good

Trust me, the remote teaching is shitloads harder (and less effective) than in person. The new protocols are pretty much impossible to follow (CDC says 6 feet apart, DESE says 3 feet is ok, neither is physically possible in most buildings). Plexiglass isn’t being installed ($$$), no HVAC upgrades in most places, PPE will be minimal. I really don’t think that most people care about the safety of teachers, or supermarket employees, or wait staff etc. The biggest concern voiced on the live stream by parents wasn’t the education of the kids, but how can they work? A valid concern but that is not the purpose of schools. I get it. I really do. The three proposals almost every district has suck in different ways.

Schools are a tough one but I agree we should be in person at least some of the time. Bad ventilation, inability to stay even 3 feet apart seem to be the biggest concerns the SC went by. You can’t really compare schools to many other places but I think we should be there Our staff, the super, the head of the SC (mayor)(plus the parents of course) wanted at least a hybrid.

My district’s (central part of Mass) school Committee just voted 5-4 to start the year full remote. This completely suuuuuuuucckkkks. Hopefully we can get back at least part time in person soon.

It’s not August yet. Why are we posting obs in this thread in July?

Mass with a second straight day of over 300 cases. But a second straight day of old data being worked in.

This could be fun

Take Euro wind maps with lots of salt. Nice track though.

There goes my beach day

Carol was later in August. But in general I agree