Post by susquehanna on Jul 6, 2020 12:46:08 GMT -5
Harvard has announced that all students will take online classes this coming academic year.
Freshman are invited to live on campus in the fall. Seniors are invited to live on campus in the spring. Students whose degrees require on campus research will be invited to live on campus, I believe.
Those who are on campus will be required to take a Covid-19 test once every three days.
This is doing thr rounds here - Putting COVID in perspective:
Jamaica Population 2.9M Total Cases: 721 Deaths: 10 Active Cases: 146
Miami-Dade, Florida Pop. 2.7M Total Cases: 42,311 Deaths: 1,024 Active Cases: 41,277
We have done a lot of work on contact tracing, masks are compulsory in all public places, no gatherings over 20 are allowed (we have just gone up from 10 to 20). We are starting to loosen up a bit (beaches were shut but are now open) but the country is still being very careful as we know our health system can't manage. However we are about to face the biggest challenge as we reopened our borders to tourists a few weeks ago - they have to provide a negative test, they have to stay incertain areas of the country etc but it is still a risk. However, losing the majority of the country's income for much longer was a risk also.
Did anybody submit expenses related to their cloth face masks to their FSA for reimbursement as a medical expense?
They are eligible, right? I was trying to find some updates on this and I didn't see any changes to what additional items are eligible. Do you have a link to share?
Our numbers are still relatively low in Oregon compared with elsewhere, but our confirmed infections per day are rapidly approaching what they estimate actual infections per day were at our peak. My household is back to being isolated. We were in a pod, but the other household in the pod has decided, in spite of the explosion of new cases and deaths, to take on a higher level of risk that I'm not comfortable with. Meanwhile, walking around the neighborhood on the 4th, I saw a lot of big parties, and almost no masks. Things look pretty dang back to normal, even as we need to shut it back down.
We're actively seeking a new pod, while mourning the end of our old pod, as I think we're seeing the result of abstinence-only thinking in the veritable orgy going on now.
@@@@ Meanwhile, I'm trying not to cry when my kiddo (5) is asking an endless string of questions about why her BFF, whom she's been seeing about 6-7 days per week for most of the day, doesn't want to play with her anymore and wants to go to summer camp instead. And why can't she go to summer camp too. Oh honey. And I don't know how I'm gonna get any work done with her playmate gone (that part has actually been pretty fine with a friend to play with), but I'm not ready to risk my life on the limited evidence that kids might not transmit it as much as adults. Especially with children under 10 being the fastest growing COVID+ demographic in my state. www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/07/coronavirus-infections-rising-fastest-among-kids-younger-than-10-dimming-prospects-for-oregons-school-reopening-plans.html?outputType=amp
I will be shocked if Oregon doesn't go back into a full shut down in the next month. Kate Brown has been hinting very heavily that she's headed that way, and I didn't see many people following the mask or social distancing guidelines during the holiday weekend. In fact, if anything, the gatherings on Saturday seemed bigger and rowdier than normal. The mask mandate hasn't meant much where I live, either. People aren't following it, businesses aren't following it, and no one really seems to care much.
Remind me what county you are in? I am in Clackamas and it is really disheartening to see all the people who are turning this into a political stunt. Mask wearing seems to be an afterthought here. When I go out to the store, I see about half the people wearing masks and social distancing.
Middle ground despite our numbers rising. Back in office PT. We visited my dad this weekend who also has been very careful. First time we visited him in 6 months. We expanded our friend bubble to two other families and continue to hang out weekly outside.
@@ one kid is going to a morning summer camp this week to give us a bit of a break during work. Still plan to send said kid to summer camp in couple weeks for last 5 weeks of summer. Allowing other kid to ride bikes with his friend.
It is very hard and I will be honest I don’t want to give up the tiny concessions we have allowed. I will make more sacrifices if need to allow my kids to have tiny bits of normalcy we have been able to carve out.
I am in Georgia. We had been slowly relaxing, seeing more people distanced etc. Not any more. There was a fricking 3 day music festival in my town! No masks in sight. Well over the 50 people max, but of course the very Republican mayor just shrugged and said she couldn’t do anything about it.
Post by lolobeth802 on Jul 6, 2020 13:36:27 GMT -5
I’m in Charleston and our percent positive in SC has hovered between 16 and 20% this past 2 weeks or so. Most people GNFs, and are keeping on with normal daily activities. In the city proper we have a mask ordinance. But the suburbs have passed anemic mask rules that basically amount to nothing. Bars, indoor dining and literally everything but movie theaters and entertainment venues are open. My H works in the local hospital and admissions are continuing to rise at a scary pace. Their COVID ICU is now overflowing into other areas of the hospital. I would venture to say about 75% of people were wearing masks at Target yesterday. On a personal level we have a kitchen/mold nightmare situation and it’s been difficult to get workers entering my home to mask up! 😫 Our governor is a shit bag and had to threaten to take people’s football games away this fall in efforts to get people to social distance, but he won’t implement a mask ordinance because he says it’s unenforceable ie: he is a Trump puppet.
I am in the Northeast and we are doing well. I did see 3 people in stores without masks this weekend, which honestly caught be off guard. How do these people spend 30-40 minutes in a grocery store and NOT feel odd being the ONLY one not following the rules? I doubt that no one comments to them either. I wish I was more bold and would.
Seems like the hard work and sacrifice by most people creates a safer environment for those that are "above" the rules. It drives me batty.
Also, I was super said to here the news of Nick Cordero's passing. He put up such a hard fight, it is just not fair.
Harvard has announced that all students will take online classes this coming academic year.
Freshman are invited to live on campus in the fall. Seniors are invited to live on campus in the spring. Students whose degrees require on campus research will be invited to live on campus, I believe.
Those who are on campus will be required to take a Covid-19 test once every three days.
I’m in SE PA and our numbers are staying low. There’s a lot of online no-mask warriors in community groups, but at the grocery store everyone wears a mask and stays apart. We are still staying home and isolating bc we have that privilege for now. I feel like I’m watching the rest of the country in horror, though.
I'm exactly here (Philadelphia).
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We were in a pod with one family, but her MIL just found out that she has cancer and they are back to total isolation. Which I totally get but am bummed for my kids, as those were the only friends they were seeing.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
I will be shocked if Oregon doesn't go back into a full shut down in the next month. Kate Brown has been hinting very heavily that she's headed that way, and I didn't see many people following the mask or social distancing guidelines during the holiday weekend. In fact, if anything, the gatherings on Saturday seemed bigger and rowdier than normal. The mask mandate hasn't meant much where I live, either. People aren't following it, businesses aren't following it, and no one really seems to care much.
Remind me what county you are in? I am in Clackamas and it is really disheartening to see all the people who are turning this into a political stunt. Mask wearing seems to be an afterthought here. When I go out to the store, I see about half the people wearing masks and social distancing.
I'm in -poof-, which has a fairly rural and right-leaning population. My H said that the majority of people at the grocery store we go to were wearing masks when he went this weekend, but I'm hearing from friends that they're seeing more like 50% or less wearing masks at other larger stores nearby (and even then, most of the people "wearing" them either have them on wrong or have them pulled down under their chins). The smaller and/or local businesses seem to be picking a clear side - They're either very strict about mask wearing or publicly announcing that they won't be requiring their employees or customers to wear them.
I am in a fairly rural county in Northern Ca, also the most republican county in Ca. Our raw numbers aren’t high, but our percentage increase is astronomical, and climbing.
@ We are mostly still quarantined. My husband had to go back to the office a couple weeks ago, and my kids are back to their private swim lessons. Other than that, we are doing an occasional distanced bike ride play date with friends, but that’s it. My boys, 5 and 2, have actually adjusted really well and don’t seem to mind, so we’ll keep going.
Most people, though, are back to regular life. We have a statewide mask requirement, which isn’t heavily followed here. Bars and restaurants are open and packed. Everyone I know had or went to a 4th of July party this weekend. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get back to a full state lockdown again, though participation in current requirements is low around here, and there doesn’t seem to be any enforcement of anything. So...I don’t know.
Harvard has announced that all students will take online classes this coming academic year.
Freshman are invited to live on campus in the fall. Seniors are invited to live on campus in the spring. Students whose degrees require on campus research will be invited to live on campus, I believe.
Those who are on campus will be required to take a Covid-19 test once every three days.
Yale is doing the opposite and I'm really surprised. On-campus classes opening in the fall. Freshmen can live on campus in the fall; sophomores remote. Sophomores on campus in the spring; freshmen remote. Juniors and seniors can be on all year. It seems...ill thought out at best. People are pissed.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Can I ask a gym related question? My Pilates studio reopened today and I went to check it out. It is reformer Pilates, so can't be done from home but I can do zoom mat classes that are just not the same. I want to make sure my desire to be back isn't overshadowing my judgement.
Precautions: Have to wear masks at all times Hand washing when entering/exiting Screening everyone before coming in Cut class sizes in half so we are >6 feet assist Have to wear grippy socks (I don't understand this one, lol) No mouth breathing All windows and doors open.
To me a typical gym seems high risk, but this is low impact so I feel safer. Am I deluding myself because I want to be back so badly?
Can I ask a gym related question? My Pilates studio reopened today and I went to check it out. It is reformer Pilates, so can't be done from home but I can do zoom mat classes that are just not the same. I want to make sure my desire to be back isn't overshadowing my judgement.
Precautions: Have to wear masks at all times Hand washing when entering/exiting Screening everyone before coming in Cut class sizes in half so we are >6 feet assist Have to wear grippy socks (I don't understand this one, lol) No mouth breathing All windows and doors open.
To me a typical gym seems high risk, but this is low impact so I feel safer. Am I deluding myself because I want to be back so badly?
No mouth breathing? They are somehow going to enforce people keeping their mouth shut? While everyone is supposedly wearing a mask?
Can I ask a gym related question? My Pilates studio reopened today and I went to check it out. It is reformer Pilates, so can't be done from home but I can do zoom mat classes that are just not the same. I want to make sure my desire to be back isn't overshadowing my judgement.
Precautions: Have to wear masks at all times Hand washing when entering/exiting Screening everyone before coming in Cut class sizes in half so we are >6 feet assist Have to wear grippy socks (I don't understand this one, lol) No mouth breathing All windows and doors open.
To me a typical gym seems high risk, but this is low impact so I feel safer. Am I deluding myself because I want to be back so badly?
No mouth breathing? They are somehow going to enforce people keeping their mouth shut? While everyone is supposedly wearing a mask?
Right? And staying 6 feet away watching me? Lol. I respected what they said and only breathed out through my nose but I head tilted that one a little bit.
tacocat, I would consider it because you are actually able to stay stationary the whole time. And pilates doesn't normally get you breathing heavy.
But the breathing thing is hard because pilates is built on pushing air out on exhales.
I like doing HIIT and weight lifting and I don't feel as if those are safe so I cancelled all my gym memberships, much to my disappointment. I am not fully a peleton junky.
tacocat, I would consider it because you are actually able to stay stationary the whole time. And pilates doesn't normally get you breathing heavy.
But the breathing thing is hard because pilates is built on pushing air out on exhales.
I like doing HIIT and weight lifting and I don't feel as if those are safe so I cancelled all my gym memberships, much to my disappointment. I am not fully a peleton junky.
It was so good to be back, but the breathing thing was difficult to do. Thankfully you do have all your own equipment and everyone was really good at keeping space. I think we were all just desperate for the reformer, lol.
I'm not going back to our regular gym and have almost convinced my husband to get a peleton instead. I won't be comfortable there for awhile.
This is doing thr rounds here - Putting COVID in perspective:
Jamaica Population 2.9M Total Cases: 721 Deaths: 10 Active Cases: 146
Miami-Dade, Florida Pop. 2.7M Total Cases: 42,311 Deaths: 1,024 Active Cases: 41,277
We have done a lot of work on contact tracing, masks are compulsory in all public places, no gatherings over 20 are allowed (we have just gone up from 10 to 20). We are starting to loosen up a bit (beaches were shut but are now open) but the country is still being very careful as we know our health system can't manage. However we are about to face the biggest challenge as we reopened our borders to tourists a few weeks ago - they have to provide a negative test, they have to stay incertain areas of the country etc but it is still a risk. However, losing the majority of the country's income for much longer was a risk also.
This is really interesting. I'll be curious to see how tourism goes and if numbers stay steady with testing.
I am supposed to go to Jamaica with my parents in November. We haven't booked flights and our resort is 100% non-refundable, so although I think our chances of actually going are quite low, I haven't cancelled yet. If they are requiring tests to go, though, that might influence my comfort level with flying there. It's not Jamaica that I'm worried about infecting us - it's being on a plane with potentially infected people to get there. If it seems testing people before the step on a plane actually works, though... I might consider it?
This is doing thr rounds here - Putting COVID in perspective:
Jamaica Population 2.9M Total Cases: 721 Deaths: 10 Active Cases: 146
Miami-Dade, Florida Pop. 2.7M Total Cases: 42,311 Deaths: 1,024 Active Cases: 41,277
We have done a lot of work on contact tracing, masks are compulsory in all public places, no gatherings over 20 are allowed (we have just gone up from 10 to 20). We are starting to loosen up a bit (beaches were shut but are now open) but the country is still being very careful as we know our health system can't manage. However we are about to face the biggest challenge as we reopened our borders to tourists a few weeks ago - they have to provide a negative test, they have to stay incertain areas of the country etc but it is still a risk. However, losing the majority of the country's income for much longer was a risk also.
This is really interesting. I'll be curious to see how tourism goes and if numbers stay steady with testing.
I am supposed to go to Jamaica with my parents in November. We haven't booked flights and our resort is 100% non-refundable, so although I think our chances of actually going are quite low, I haven't cancelled yet. If they are requiring tests to go, though, that might influence my comfort level with flying there. It's not Jamaica that I'm worried about infecting us - it's being on a plane with potentially infected people to get there. If it seems testing people before the step on a plane actually works, though... I might consider it?
The situation for tourists is fluid - originally it was all were tested on arrival, now it is all from 'high risk States' are to send in evidence of their negative test prior to travel. Let's see what it evolves into next. IF you can, I'd just wait as long as possible before making any decisions.
To be fair, I am going on holiday in Jamaica this year - but am deliberately going to our south coast and staying in villas which means I am staying away from our major tourist areas and hotels!
This is doing thr rounds here - Putting COVID in perspective:
Jamaica Population 2.9M Total Cases: 721 Deaths: 10 Active Cases: 146
Miami-Dade, Florida Pop. 2.7M Total Cases: 42,311 Deaths: 1,024 Active Cases: 41,277
We have done a lot of work on contact tracing, masks are compulsory in all public places, no gatherings over 20 are allowed (we have just gone up from 10 to 20). We are starting to loosen up a bit (beaches were shut but are now open) but the country is still being very careful as we know our health system can't manage. However we are about to face the biggest challenge as we reopened our borders to tourists a few weeks ago - they have to provide a negative test, they have to stay incertain areas of the country etc but it is still a risk. However, losing the majority of the country's income for much longer was a risk also.
Iceland is (or was) requiring testing when people land and if they are negative they are allowed to travel around. My concern with this is that you can be negative one day and positive the next. It's so hard to know what is the "right" thing to do here. People do need to survive
This is doing thr rounds here - Putting COVID in perspective:
Jamaica Population 2.9M Total Cases: 721 Deaths: 10 Active Cases: 146
Miami-Dade, Florida Pop. 2.7M Total Cases: 42,311 Deaths: 1,024 Active Cases: 41,277
We have done a lot of work on contact tracing, masks are compulsory in all public places, no gatherings over 20 are allowed (we have just gone up from 10 to 20). We are starting to loosen up a bit (beaches were shut but are now open) but the country is still being very careful as we know our health system can't manage. However we are about to face the biggest challenge as we reopened our borders to tourists a few weeks ago - they have to provide a negative test, they have to stay incertain areas of the country etc but it is still a risk. However, losing the majority of the country's income for much longer was a risk also.
Iceland is (or was) requiring testing when people land and if they are negative they are allowed to travel around. My concern with this is that you can be negative one day and positive the next. It's so hard to know what is the "right" thing to do here. People do need to survive
I know! Testing isn't a guarantee of anything
We are also doing a 'tourist zone' so tourists are supposed to not be able to travel all over the island and they have to download an app on arrival that the health teams can use to contact them to check their location. And also workers in the industry are supposed to use masks and face sheilds.
Then for Jamaicans who are coming home, they are suppsoed to basically really limit their interactions for the first 2 weeks they are back. WE have relied a lot on contact tracing and testing contacts, so at least that way, we have less people to trace is a returnee develops symptoms.
This is welcome news. I do have concerns about a spike in death rates a few weeks from now since they lag behind cases, but I'm also trying to stay optimistic because 1) the average age of people being diagnosed is trending downward, and 2) medical professionals knowing more than they did in March/April re: treatments.
Harvard has announced that all students will take online classes this coming academic year.
Freshman are invited to live on campus in the fall. Seniors are invited to live on campus in the spring. Students whose degrees require on campus research will be invited to live on campus, I believe.
Those who are on campus will be required to take a Covid-19 test once every three days.
Yale is doing the opposite and I'm really surprised. On-campus classes opening in the fall. Freshmen can live on campus in the fall; sophomores remote. Sophomores on campus in the spring; freshmen remote. Juniors and seniors can be on all year. It seems...ill thought out at best. People are pissed.
My youngest sister is 21 years old and she is going to be a senior at a small private Pennsylvania liberal arts university. My sister obviously is happy that she has been able to stay healthy so far. However, she is still upset about how her particular school handled the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis back in March.
Back in March / February, when a significant number of other colleges in the Northeast announced that the rest of their semesters would be online, my sister's school announced that they would NOT be moving to online instruction. The administration of this college said something to the effect of, "Well, these other schools are all having problems because they are worried about people bringing infection back to campus when the students return after spring break. Our school already had its spring break last month, so we don't have to worry about people bringing infection to our campus."
Then, the state health department announced that a fellow student at my sister's school had already tested positive for Covid. That same day, the school announced that effective immediately, all instruction would be online. They also announced that effective immediately, every public space on campus was closed and that all students needed to move out of the dorms immediately.
I wasn't there and I don't know the very best way that it SHOULD have been handled. However, my sister is still angry at her school's administration for the way that they handled the messaging for this crisis back in March.
(Obviously, this was a rapidly developing situation.)
Harvard has announced that all students will take online classes this coming academic year.
Freshman are invited to live on campus in the fall. Seniors are invited to live on campus in the spring. Students whose degrees require on campus research will be invited to live on campus, I believe.
Those who are on campus will be required to take a Covid-19 test once every three days.
I'm in a Baltimore suburb. I think things here are steady? I hadn't heard MD considered a hot spot recently. Our numbers seem to have been trending down over the last 1-2 months. We are still getting around 500 new cases state wide these days, but there are over 6 million people in the state so that's really a pretty low number. I think most things are open now to 50% capacity. Most people will not be returning to work at my work until about a month from now, and even then it will be limited capacity.
We have still be mostly staying home. I've been a bit more lax about running errands lately - masks are required and capacity is being limited, so I feel like it's fairly safe. I am still not shopping for just for fun/to kill time, but if we need stuff from the hardware store or grocery store, I just go get it. I even went to Home Goods a couple of weeks ago and bought some things I'd been wanting for our new house. As far as other activities, we've gone to an outdoor brewery once with friends, but haven't done any restaurants or other social stuff. I think i'd be ok with outdoor dining somewhere, but it's so hot and gross outside that I'm not that excited about it. I think outdoor dining has been allowed here for about a month now and there has not been a spike in cases, so I feel like it must not be a huge risk.
I’m also pondering my gym situation. They’ve reopened with max 10 per class (normally 30). Everyone gets an 8x8 square with weights waiting for you. There’s about 2’ in between each 8x8 square with a runway down the center of the room. We must wait outside until we are called in, one by one, for temperature and health screening. Then we sanitize hands and walk to our square on the runway, and change into gym shoes there (which are sanitized prior to use). We must also bring a yoga mat for floor exercises. They removed the fans to prevent droplet circulation (A/C still running). After class you leave one by one and the trainers sanitize everything. The classes are all HIIT format. Before this all happened I was going 5-6 days a week. I was considering going 1-2 times per week for the extra in-person push, and doing the remainder on zoom. Zoom classes are offered 7 days a week. I usually do 5. What would you do? ETA we have been pretty conservative in all other aspects. Limiting who we see socially and where we go.
This is really interesting. I'll be curious to see how tourism goes and if numbers stay steady with testing.
I am supposed to go to Jamaica with my parents in November. We haven't booked flights and our resort is 100% non-refundable, so although I think our chances of actually going are quite low, I haven't cancelled yet. If they are requiring tests to go, though, that might influence my comfort level with flying there. It's not Jamaica that I'm worried about infecting us - it's being on a plane with potentially infected people to get there. If it seems testing people before the step on a plane actually works, though... I might consider it?
The situation for tourists is fluid - originally it was all were tested on arrival, now it is all from 'high risk States' are to send in evidence of their negative test prior to travel. Let's see what it evolves into next. IF you can, I'd just wait as long as possible before making any decisions.
To be fair, I am going on holiday in Jamaica this year - but am deliberately going to our south coast and staying in villas which means I am staying away from our major tourist areas and hotels!
I honestly think we'll be waiting until like, the week before to make a decision to go. Unless we decide sooner to cancel. I don't want to get locked into anything when the situation is still so uncertain, and I'm really skeptical that it will end up being a good choice, especially at this rate! I don't want us to get sick OR bring disease to another country. But it's nice to keep a small glimmer of hope alive by not cancelling yet! It's the week after the election so if we go with the conspiracy theorists, this will magically be gone by then anyway, right?