NorthArlington101

If anyone thinks they are going to a pool that isn’t in their own backyard or HOA this summer, I’ve got a bridge to sell them. Maybe that’s too pessimistic, but we’ll see.

It’s gonna be interesting to see what some of my peers do. I love college, but I also want my degree and want to find a job after I graduate. Not sure I’ll delay myself for a semester+, but many of my friends are seriously considering taking a gap semester or year. Online sucks for the college experience, but it was actually pretty good for my GPA. Professors are more lenient when we are online.

Happy to share! I'll sum the whole thing up here because it may be useful to others. Essentially, UVA sent the students a survey to test our enthusiasm (and willingness to pay) for three different scenarios in the Fall A semi-regular semester, starting on-time, where we have seven-week intensive classes along with a regular semester. Classes that require in-persona activities (labs, discussions) might be on the back-end of the semester. Larger classes are likely online. A month delay, then hopefully we return to normal. We start online and on-time and progress to normalcy as soon as possible. They also tossed out some extra ideas, including Weekend classes to allow for more space No classes with 50+ (a placeholder number) people meeting in-person in order to allow smaller lectures to meet in larger spaces, hence meeting social distancing requirements Classes until 10:00pm to allow for more space They also emphasized that if we return, students will likely need to wear masks and abide by social distancing restrictions. They asked us if we'd be willing to enforce that rules for ourselves and engage in healthy peer pressure for other students, which I found kind of funny. I'm skeptical we head back, honestly. First-year dorms, where students share bathrooms, hallways, and live in tiny tiny rooms seem light the nightmare scenario for a contagious disease. Our dining halls are literally set up like prisons (Amarak, a prison food contractor, provides our food), and every single class I've ever taken would violate social distancing protocols.

if you isolated the elderly and vulnerable, the University would lose about half of its professors and a decent portion of its general services staff! I wish all my professors were young and super healthy, but I like the 70+ ones who have been battling cancer on and off as well.

UVA sent out an email yesterday that very highly implies that I won’t be having a normal Fall semester. Many colleges aren’t getting back to normal anytime soon, I fear. Probably goes jails > nursing homes > colleges in ability to quickly spread a virus.

Yep, that’s what I’m saying! Think we agree on what this thread is. I agree with Mappy though that we need this place as a nice spillover pond. Probably a more elegant analogy out there, haha.

agreed! that would also work if we wanted to kill this thread. I avoid that thread because I don’t like knowing political leanings when we are all just weather nerds at heart. This thread hasn’t helped that logic though, haha

IMO, the sole benefit is that largely prevents any spillover of this discussion into other threads. This thread was only ever meant for thinly (or not) veiled partisan bickering. Nobody should be coming here for news or good takes

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GFS had the same storm at 18z yesterday, GEFS offers a little bit of support now too. It’s obviously not going to happen, but it’s a testament to this crappy cold patten that there is even a window barely cracked open.

You buried the lede. Check the Control.

did you ever watch The Avengers? I think Loki made some good points

Test looks somewhat painful, or at the bare minimum extremely uncomfortable from what I’ve seen, though I’m also a wimp. How was it?

I’ve been jogging to try and stay in shape, and today was hot. Sweating horribly after just a couple minutes. It can stay 55-65 as long as it wants, IMO.

Don’t know what this metric is for flooding, but a flood event in Arlington would be some excitement I don’t need right now! At least it’s a super easy chase.

my question would be: was this data collected during school closures? If so, I gotta say this result seems obvious. Younger kids aren’t going to be going anywhere or spreading anything.

not gonna lie, saw the headline and was about to say that the article must be crazy. Read that and it made a lot of sense! I'm still skeptical it's truly constant -- I feel like modern medicine must have a non-negligible effect -- but a ton of deaths at age "0" certainty would bring the average down sharply.

I’ve had sun in N Arlington for 20-30 minutes. 63/44

What tends to also have a really bad effect on a financial system is people being unable to pay their bills, buy lifesaving medications, feed their families, spend money on anything other than essential goods, etc. Economic productivity decreases when you can’t pay the power and water bill!

Seems like I missed my chance to buy in on the lowest part of dip for COVID-19... might try and find a way to profit off this a little bit. Maybe $USO?

I dunno... ultimately the risk level is irrelevant (as mentioned above) but was anyone seriously suggesting a high risk until it got “leaked” an hour ago?

Agreed, it’s a lose-lose. But if holding onto the lockdown for a couple more weeks could prevent us having to do it again throughout next fall and winter... that would be the lesser national tragedy, IMO.

Much more afraid that ending the lockdowns early is the wrong call and we are all stuck inside longer! Oh, and it means thousands more people will die. If it’s the right call, that’s fantastic and it means I can enjoy my summer. If it’s wrong, it’ll be an unprecedented national tragedy.