New Research on Covid Transmission

kickingandscreaming said:
It will be interesting to see if this is just a "blip" or a real trend. CA "growth" was less than 0.9% from 2016 to 2019 while US population was up about 1.6%. That isn't too big a deal on its own. Now if we start losing employers, that's another story.

I know espola wants me to move to Texas, but my wife doesn't like to sweat. First world problem, I know. She could park the car in the garage and start the AC before pulling out. One thing I do miss about the years I lived in Florida was that if you parked outside, the walk from the door to your car was a good substitute for ironing your outfit.
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I would die in Texas and I visited my bro in Palm Coast Fl and I was attacked by mosquitos. My bro was the only one without a screen over his pool. I golfed with snakes, no joke. I saw two snakes looking for my balls after my slices. I also saw an alligator on the back nine. My bro was like, "that's Ralph, dont worry about him." Then the heat and humidity. Talk about sweat when when you play golf at 11am. My grip was horrible and club kept slipping out of my hand. My bro loves it there and hated California. He worked for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton with my old man back in the day. I have to stay in California, I love the ocean and the waves.
 
Ellejustus said:
I would die in Texas and I visited my bro in Palm Coast Fl and I was attacked by mosquitos. My bro was the only one without a screen over his pool. I golfed with snakes, no joke. I saw two snakes looking for my balls after my slices. I also saw an alligator on the back nine. My bro was like, "that's Ralph, dont worry about him." Then the heat and humidity. Talk about sweat when when you play golf at 11am. My grip was horrible and club kept slipping out of my hand. My bro loves it there and hated California. He worked for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton with my old man back in the day. I have to stay in California, I love the ocean and the waves.
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You'll still have some humidity, but Florida weather is great from mid-October through about mid-April. Summers are no joke - same with Texas.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
You'll still have some humidity, but Florida weather is great from mid-October through about mid-April. Summers are no joke - same with Texas.
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This week it’s very hot and humid in Socal. If you can handle this weather for a week, you are basically handling Texas weather. The only problem is that in Austin/Houston it’s like this for 4 months.
Definitely not for me.
 
tjinaz said:
Said it before and Ill say it again.....

If they can protect a cashier in a supermarket checkout line that sees hundreds of random people everyday within a 6ft radius and they are OK ... how can they not protect teachers seeing the exact same smaller number of low risk kids? I smell politics in this one. Or.. maybe when the teachers explain again how important they are and why they need raises we give that money to the true heros in the grocery store.
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Here's the difference dumbass. When patrons come into a grocery store they are masked up, they move around and don't stay in one place for more than 2-3 minutes, and certainly not directly in front of a grocery store worker. So even if they are covid positive, the likelihood they will transmit to someone else is low. In a classroom, you'll have 30 students confined in a classroom for 50 minutes, probably all facing in one direction. And this will happen 6 times a day, 5 days a week.

Here, re-read this article to freshen up. https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

And remember, the most important thing teachers want is testing! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...o-reopening-schools/ar-BB178hPd?ocid=msedgdhp

Your sense of smell is faulty, maybe you have covid!
 
happy9 said:
The complete inability of school districts to motivate themselves to intellectually work through the problem and solve it is mind blowing. Motivated (and well funded) school districts up and down the east coast are implementing plans (that will be uncomfortable to fund and execute) that address the key issues of bringing kids back to school in safe and efficient manner. Social distancing, reducing daily child density, cleaning, testing. All hard things to do but they are willing to undertake it. Private schools are doing the same thing.

Meanwhile, here in the SW and West, all we get is "look at data" and "we can't and shouldn't". Frustrating to say the least and almost criminal if you think of the impact that will be achieved (yes, I use the word achieved) on kids who do not have the luxury of good WIFI, parent availability, and access to technology.

There , that is my rant, now back to soccer.
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Testing my man, testing. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...o-reopening-schools/ar-BB178hPd?ocid=msedgdhp
 
Making the best of it....

Both my son and my daughter have completed summer college courses online, worked jobs, and trainied or exercising 4x a week since about May consistently with the same group of different friends. Daughter works in food service 4x a week and in contact /w the general public.

Besides being bummed about some festivals or music events they couldn't go to and maybe a hair or nail place here or there being closed they seem pretty happy in general.

One of the best things is they found there own ways to be happy: Son has been training four days a week even though is team just got back.

Different stuff from the sand, futsal outdoors, to setting up pitches with the portables they bring along. 1.5-2hrs each session and they run it/travel to different spots, they haven't seem to miss a beat I don't know but with school starting have to be later now.

Really no complaints about missing a tournament or anything and there had king of the courts type friendly or other fun comps they do like points for passing or line scoring.
 
Justafan said:
Don't let the door hit you in the ass!
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That sounded like my old boss that ran everyone over to Pacific Bell YP. After almost having no sales reps, they called me up to recruit top sales people to become advertising consultant. I turned the company around by getting in the trenches and knocking doors with the reps. The other asshole stayed in the office all day and barked out orders. I'm not like that. Anyway, we hired outside firm to teach us that losing people like they were was not healthy and most likely a deeper issue. We found the boss dude was doing other bad things. He got fired and all was better and many of the other reps that left came back. The grass is not always greener either and the reps just wanted to be treated with respect. This guy would make reps wear a suit in the IE, no matter how hot it was. He came from NY and said all pros wear a tie. I was respectful because he was boss man but I always gave it straight to him behind close doors. he told me to shut up and be grateful he was my boss. I said ok, good luck.
 
kickingandscreaming said:
I see a lot of the same people at Whole Foods, Costco and Total Wine - 95% of the shopping I do. I always feel better when they have plastic shields between the customer and the cashier. These stores have them - along with the mask requirement. In the best of times, cashiers have to put up with a lot. These days, I always try to make sure I thank them for being there.
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Every day heroes. They should be recognized...
 
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