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This was posted today. It covers some of same topics on this thread.

“shapers of culture and the legacy of our time”.

They have quite the opinion of themselves.

In outdoors conditions like this, the mask is completely pointless except for virtue signaling. I take it off when possible, but that's not always socially acceptable. So this morning while I am driving and I see a man out jogging by himself in suburbia in a "feels like" temperature of 93...

Also what is also interesting to me is that the 75% choosing to go back goes against earlier questionnaires (and local news polls) where only 50% of parents were planning on sending their kids back. So either the polls were wrong, or parents opinions changed in the last month (with a surge in cases...

Also what is also interesting to me is that the 75% choosing to go back goes against earlier questionnaires (and local news polls) where only 50% of parents were planning on sending their kids back. So either the polls were wrong, or parents opinions changed in the last month (with a surge in cases...

Well, here we go. Schools were supposed to open for in-person instruction 8/5 but it was just announced that classes will be online through Labor Day. "Based on our local health indicators that are showing an increase in infections in our community and current staffing projections , the first ...

As an aside, do you think that the users of Facebook and other social media outlets lean liberal? People that I know are all for reopening but I am not sure they are representative of the avg citizen. So I like to sort of gauge what the avg person is thinking about all of this. I am not sure if Fac...

Also what is also interesting to me is that the 75% choosing to go back goes against earlier questionnaires (and local news polls) where only 50% of parents were planning on sending their kids back. So either the polls were wrong, or parents opinions changed in the last month (with a surge in cases...

I keep seeing news about the overcounting of positive COVID-19 test results and deaths. Reporting errors, false positives, backdated results, redefinition of guidelines, etc. Has anyone seen any stories about positives, hospitalizations, or deaths being undercounted? Why would all of the errors poi...

We don’t have to elect anything as far as I know. If you see in the upper right, you have a daily choice to go in or from home, which is quite (crazy?) flexible. I did just see on the news that the Chicago Teacher’s Union is saying teachers should not go back in the classroom until there is a vacci...

Here's our HS district plan. At least they are giving it a shot. There is an option for being at home as well. https://i.imgur.com/FlyoLMi.jpg Did they give you any idea as to how many people had signed up for each, physical vs remote? My district released that information last night and 75% of par...

The stuff that drives me crazy is that I have to put on a mask to go into a restaurant and then walk 20 feet to my table, Then I can take it off. I would love for an expert to calculate for me the chances of catching or spreading a virus in that 20 foot walk. Especially when the restaurant is runni...

One of the things that frustrates me the most about this whole situation is the moving goalposts for reopening, or the lack of any goalposts at all. I think that contributes to all of the emotional reactions. Has anyone anywhere actually articulated a set of metrics for reopening? Sure. When it's &...

One of the things that frustrates me the most about this whole situation is the moving goalposts for reopening, or the lack of any goalposts at all. I think that contributes to all of the emotional reactions. Has anyone anywhere actually articulated a set of metrics for reopening? An analogy many o...

Goddamit does everything have to be political? Is there no one without a hard right or hard left agenda? To the lefties, I would say, send kids back to school. You have to assume there will never be an effective vaccine. Live with it and be safe, but not to the point of complete disruption. Or are ...

Also, I'm sure that people who want to keep things shut are saying "those people who care about the economy more than people being sick just haven't felt the illness's damage themselves yet". It's all perspective, I suppose. But statistically speaking I am much more likely to feel damage ...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-opposes-trump-administration-demand-that-schools-reopen-poll/ar-BB16LtA3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp Not overwhelming but still, most people are against school reopenings. /Technically/, is seems that poll asked whether people agree with the federal gove...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/majority-opposes-trump-administration-demand-that-schools-reopen-poll/ar-BB16LtA3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp Not overwhelming but still, most people are against school reopenings. /Technically/, is seems that poll asked whether people agree with the federal gove...

My son has high-functioning autism. We home schooled for years and finally decided to try public school last year. After a rough start he did amazingly well and the teachers were awesome with him. Then suddenly it was all taken away. So for 6 months he has had no school, no contact with his school ...

Well, the city/county (jointly, somehow) have closed all the schools until at least September 7. This is a 3-week delay on opening. The governor may have something to say about it. We'll see. https://austintexas.gov/news/local-health-authority-issues-emergency-rules-and-orders Edit: that's both pub...

Well, the city/county (jointly, somehow) have closed all the schools until at least September 7. This is a 3-week delay on opening. The governor may have something to say about it. We'll see. https://austintexas.gov/news/local-health-authority-issues-emergency-rules-and-orders Edit: that's both pub...

Regarding the risk of sending children back to school in-person, the evidence strongly suggests it's minimal. This study found that children under 16 years old account for < 2% of COVID cases , with "no documentation of child-to-child or child-to-adult transmission": https://pediatrics.aa...

I am, for about the next 2 weeks, ok with letting the media have its day with the breaking news, and surge in cases, yada yada. If those don't translate into a material increase in deaths, then I will call bullshit. One thing to keep in mind when you look at death stats is that around 1/3 of the ex...

Why aren't more people speaking up about this? My sense is they are starting to speak up. Especially when it comes to schools. There is a very vocal minority about wanting online only, maybe in perpetuity. But the vast, currently mostly silent majority want schools to reopen. If it comes to a head,...

I know plenty of smart people who think that big government can solve all known problems. In fact big government creates many more problems than it solves, but that doesn't stop a lot of smart people from believing it. I think that is sort of a common trait of smart people, experts and intellectual...