went to the dermatologist for a skin cancer check and some lady comes running in yelling about sunscreen ingredients and cancer. she was asked by 3 different staff to put on a mask but refused and declared herself "allergic" to them. (apparently all paper and cloth products, but not her clothes)
they asked her several times to leave or mask up. she kept waving some stupid paper around yelling over them. I stood up and said "I'm going to wait outside, because I have an immunocompromised newborn at home and I'm sick of looking at her nose"
they called me back shortly and the lady was already gone. it kinda felt good to finally say something.
formerlyak your teenagers are putting our 18-64 year olds to shame - only 71% with at least one dose. what a difference just a few miles up the 5!
I’ve actually been really impressed with our community’s response to getting vaccinated. Seniors at at almost 90% and our community as a whole is over 80%. And masking indoors is really high. I was in Pasadena a few weeks ago and even outdoors masking was high. On the flip side, when we go to the part of The Valley where my in laws live, masking seems hit or miss despite our county mandate and vaccination rates are considerably lower.
Post by Velar Fricative on Aug 14, 2021 8:15:18 GMT -5
I think I'm in serious denial because I went ahead and registered the kids for fall sports/activities. I'm looking at our calendar and basically like "Okay how likely is any of this going to happen??"
DD1's 8th birthday is in early October and I just submitted park permit applications to have a family party and then a classmate party at a local park, both in October. Obviously, safety first and we'll cancel if necessary, but I feel like I need to have some optimism right now because I'm feeling so deflated about everything.
A school district near where we just moved from is moving to 100% virtual until at least 9/1 due to 18% of their students being positive or in quarantine. It’s the second week of school. They required masks in the hallways and that’s it. 8% of staff are sick or quarantined.
A school district near where we just moved from is moving to 100% virtual until at least 9/1 due to 18% of their students being positive or in quarantine. It’s the second week of school. They required masks in the hallways and that’s it. 8% of staff are sick or quarantined.
Not sure why districts are still so hellbent on maskless school. It’s clearly not working.
I give my district a week before it explodes out of control. Tops.
Post by Velar Fricative on Aug 14, 2021 8:56:28 GMT -5
It's not formally announced yet, but some school buildings around here are situating classrooms so that it's 20 kids per classroom (typically it can be 25-30) and reconfiguring cafeterias and other shared spaces to become classrooms.
While this is good news, I think the odds of at least 1 infection in a class of 20 kids (plus staff in the classroom) are pretty high with Delta expected to surge here in September/October, right at the start of the school year. So what I really need to know is wtf they're going to do when this happens. Everyone in the classroom home for 14 days? Only some home for 14 days? It almost seems better to just send the entire class home because then at least the teacher can also be home to teach the whole class virtually if it's allowed, whereas if you allow some kids and the teacher to return, the kids at home won't be able to do any remote learning. But then if this constantly happens on a rolling basis, it's going to be a nightmare for parents and caregivers. UGGGGGGHHHHHH
School starts here a month from yesterday, so while there's time...that's not a lot of time for contingency plans and I don't trust the DOE to plan ahead of time.
I posted a few days ago about the possible exposure DS had at camp. We received an update Thursday night. Apparently the kid had symptoms, so the family did a rapid test and it came back positive. They notified the camp, started quarantining and took the kid to get a PCR test. The PCR test came back negative (thankfully), so no actual exposure.
I was really happy that the family (and the camp who immediately put strict mask and distancing protocols in place despite the camp being outside) handled it so cautiously.
Post by RoxMonster on Aug 14, 2021 13:19:48 GMT -5
At our "welcome back" assembly this week, many teachers in my district booed the state mask mandate. Oh well. Too bad so sad. I know not all teachers in my district are even vaccinated, much less the students. Our rooms are small and crammed full of 30 kids in many class periods. I am very thankful for the mask mandate. If we didn't have one, I'd still mask up during class, but like having the extra protection of kids masking as well.
Classes don't start until Monday and we already have some positive students and others who are in quarantine. We are thankfully not being forced to teach concurrently again but the district currently doesn't really have a remote plan in place so :/
After complaining about being left for the wolves at the school board meeting and threatening to pull our kid, we now have a meeting with the superintendent. This is the 2nd largest school district in Michigan - I know he is going to try to appease us and I am going to leave more angry than I am now.
I'm liking that you have a meeting with him just to at least keep open the possibility of a mask mandate. Hoping for the best!
it was terrible. He apologized for allowing us to be treated that way. Then proceeded to tell us there would be no mandate without an order from the county health department. The county health department has said no way.
We called our principal after. They are cohorting but no social distancing and lunch is back to full tables.
We FULLY believe that children should attend their neighborhood public school. We are not religious - at all. Wednesday we’re touring a private Lutheran school where the parents are conservative but every meeting has been civil and respectful. Their Covid protocols were top notch last year. If that’s still true, well, I guess we just became a private school family.