Monday, August 10, 2020

Fine, Thanks, And You?





So, will we follow the Georgia model (hygiene theater) or the CDC model (shut down for 2 weeks every time a new case is found)?  Oh, wait!  Neither!  We won't be testing!  (It's the Trump model.)

Or because it takes up to 2 weeks to get results back, at which point you've forgotten why you were tested.  Or your insurance doesn't cover it because you lost your insurance because you lost your job so you can't get to a testing site anyway.

Just spitballing here....

Move over, Georgia, we're gonna show you how to REALLY fuck this up!

Because apparently bar patrons are irresponsible:

But college kids in a locker room on a football field will behave responsibly and maintain social distancing at all times.

(Abbott is sounding off because he knows no one is listening to him.  If he thought his opinion would make one football game happen, he'd immediately defer to the heads of the Big 12 colleges who voted to put the safety of their students ahead of the needs of the alumni and the public.  Any day now he's gonna agree we should be blaming China.  That'll fix it!)
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2 comments:

  1. rustypickup10:33 AM

    I don't think we can even think of the epidemic on a national scale anymore given the differences in regions in terms of rate of infection and responses.

    Yesterday was the deadline to decide on the type of schooling for our children this first semester. We had a choice of hybrid, 2 days in school and 3 remote, or all remote (K-5 has a choice of 4.5 days in school or all remote). We ended up selecting hybrid for our both our middle schooler and high schooler. The community positive rate on testing in NY is 1%. Bussing is only 1/3 full (with a request to drive your children if possible, we will), masks required at all times, desks spaced 6 feet, only half of the hybrid students in the school each day, no locker use and other rules to reduce hallway usage. At the middle school, students will mostly stay put and the teachers will move between classrooms. There are also a whole series of protocols on sick students, quarantine, etc.

    Given all this and the particulars of our children, hybrid didn't seem unreasonable. However, were we in many other states with high infection rates, schools unwilling to require masks and more, it would have been remote. The Northeast is reacting to the crisis very differently from the midwest and south. Unfortunately people move around (Sturgis!) and actions in one state have consequences in another.

    Do I think the schools will work here? I am not sure, but if they can't work in a low infection state with these rules, they aren't going to work anywhere. I still think there is a good chance rising infections elsewhere will eventually drive up the local rates and the schools will go all remote.

    I continue to be disheartened by the American response. We are reaping the consequences of a culture dominated by self-centeredness and a screw-you-I-got-mine ethos. It never worked for a large part of the American population and now it's consuming wholesale our people, economy, schools and more. Be safe.

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  2. Rmj12:35 PM

    Positivity rate in Houston was reported last night at 14%. Positivity rate in Texas: 21%.

    I'm just glad my daughter is out of school. This is gonna be bad, no matter what happens. Hospitalizations are going down; again. They did that once, and shot back up. Positivity rates are highest they've ever been, so this ain't hardly over.

    Yeah, not sure where we go from here, but unless we (the culture) learn this lesson, it's game over.

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