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  1. So I called the school registrar, per the close contact email, to tell them we would quarantine. She passed me off to the nurse, who basically said its not really mandatory and that if the child is feeling fine, then we could bring them in. WTF. So confused.
  2. I was just about to buy a ruger american in 7.62. Nodak makes iron sites, and a lack was what was holding me back. But if 7.62 ain't so cheap... oh hell, I will probably get one. I have some spam cans anyway
  3. RRISD elementary. Just got close contact notification email. Recommend (requested?) one week quarantine. Sigh.
  4. One thought, and this relates to FDA approval... once there is adult pfizer approval, a doc can do "off label" use of a drug. I.e. perhaps give an adult 30ug shot to a child. Will many pediatricians do that? I have no idea. Liability concerns, naturally. If you have 2 kids, maybe they could split a single 30ug dose (so 15 units, the 5-11 cohort study is 10ug) each. But my understanding is that could happen, completely legally, as soon as next week. Now, as someone who may know someone who had a 6th grader who is the same size and development as many other kids in the same grade technically a few months older... I bet there are tens of thousands of folks who have already done it. Maybe one of those folks would come clean to their pediatrician and see if they would provide a reduced child size dosage for the second shot. That's all theoretical mind you. I have heard, sample size of 1, no ill effects were noted after 1 shot. Additionally, with FDA approval off-label use would let doc give a J&J based person get a pfizer or moderna.
  5. Pfizer full FDA approval Monday. Off label x to age 11 on Tuesday? Commercials starring Trumo family?
  6. Fwiw, Austin Public Health is pretty no questions asked if you've got a kiddo that seems remotely passable for 12. A friend of a friend of a friend told me.
  7. Germ guardian - 2x of the smaller ones. Room might be 20x20, so pissing in an ocean.akes me feel better anyway.
  8. Kiddos enjoyed first day in-person in 17 months. Vast majority, 90 to 95% in masks. Sixth and fourth grade. Middle school allowed eating outside. I purchased 2 air purifiers for 4th grade homeroom. And yet I expect a "pause" and school shutdown within the first month. Not too worried about their health if they get it - if I was they would be doing virtual. Daughter can be fully vaxed soon, and hopefully the FDA will allow age 5 to 11 shots soon.
  9. A birdie told me if you've got an 11 year old starting middle school... Austin Punlic Health doesn't ask many questions. Is the risk worth it? He'll if I know.
  10. He should be fine. Used to be a jogger.
  11. But OOG suspended "any other statute invoked by any local government entity or official in support of a face-cpvering requirement." AG-38, 4(b)(v). Now that may be deemed too vague, but the all it takes is a napkin signed by POG to amend. So for mask purposes consider TEC suspended. The best argument would be by a homerule city that can claim some straight from the Constitution police power, but even then an ordinance would be suspended I think.
  12. Is there anywhere with a cogent legal discussion of GC 418? I'm hoping for a mank mandate. But I'm a half-assed lawyer and I give the OOG about a 99% chance of winning. The TX SCt doesn't have to give 2 shits about legislative intent. GC 418 gives the executive a lot of power. He can suspend statutes and ordinances. I don't see the pro-mask legal argument.
  13. Nw Austin. If I got a quarter inch I'd be surprised. Downtown got nailed.
  14. Right. It will go endemic. I don't get what Australia is doing. Long term covid zero seems impossible. I don't get it.
  15. Yes and no. The Gunnison is like 72 degrees and mostly thigh deep. So if you dumped you could easily just stand up and gather your stuff. And the right river is a bit like backpacking in that it can be a real wilderness experience without having to carry all that stuff on your back. We had folding chairs for camp, for example. Although my old backpacking jetboil was perfect, and we used our old $$$ sleeping bags. The most dangerous paddling I've done has been on lakes. Lake Laberge and Chesuncook can build some 3 ft rollers and if you get crosswise can be ruinous. But truth be told, pretty much anyone could do most of em and have a blast. He'll, for most of the Yukon the current tis such you don't need to paddle. Fun 2 week idea: fly into Great Falls, MT. Do a 6 day trip on the river, reading a Lewis and Clark history book; then do Glacier NP and Waterton. Low stress. You could do it with a small child or two.
  16. Trip report: I like canoe camping. I am not an avid whitewater paddler, but I'm competent. Previous trips: Rio Grande, Upper Missourri (6 days), Yukon (6 days), Big Salmon / Yukon (13 days), Penobscot (3 days). Nice flat water river trips. Recommend all. Talked the Mrs. and our kids (6th and 4rh grade) into Lower Gunnison, CO. Put in near Delta, CO at Escalante. Water at 690cfs. So my wife did the Missouri with me. I assumed maybe better skills. Gunnison has a Class II like 12 minutes from the put in. She had not shook off the rust... and had never been the stern. We take channel left to avoid rocks and long wave chain, but current goes directly into tamarack sweepers. I'm teller wife to just get out... water is like 20 inches. Daughter goes into branches, drops paddle. By this time I've beaches our boat on the bank. Wife gets out successfully and manages to pull boat back from shore. Daughter managed to avoid being scratched. I swim for paddle and get it. Not a great start. But we rally. Camp 14 miles downstream. I rented 1 large tent, but outfitter gives us 2 small. Fine. Except second tent has busted pole. So we sleep all 4 in a 3 person tent. Not great. But campsite was devine and nobody for miles. Weekday launch a good idea. Camp is just at only other Class II on that fetch. Wife and daughter are sort of shy, so I solo both past the worst. Easy. Line it past "Undertaker" rock and ping pong past rocks and a snag. We decide to do the rest in 1 day, avoiding second night in too small tent. Next 16miles goes easy. Lots if fun riffles and Class I wave trains. Pretty canyons. Never rolled a boat. If day 2 was first I bet wife would have had no trouble with first rapid. Kids have positive memories. Wife a little salty about my prior assurance it was zero risk. Pretty stretch. Easy logistics. Will bring our own darn tents if I can convince family to do Green River in a year or two. Or possibly Bufdalo in AR.
  17. Fwiw at my wife's school (low income) they talked many parents into coming back in-person during last school year. Kids were struggling online, particularly those without a highly educated parent who could hover all day. Their scores outperformed similar schools who let folks coast online. But they want everyone to wear a mask.
  18. I'm torn. On the one hand, I'd like to see ISU and KU leave, and Tech get a shot at the PAC. So the B12 crumbles. On the other hand, the fact that no other schools moves the needle enough to get an invite proves the point of why we had to leave.
  19. The only one who got a big payday for TI is Joe Jamail and he's ours. And dead.
  20. I was watching my youngest and my nieces on Saturday. I farted a little louder than I intended. My youngest niece immediately said, "Uncle X, you are a tooter." Not that I tooted. That I am a tooter. Since I supplied it, I did not deny it. But 48 hours later I can't help thinking...I'm a tooter.
  21. Lot of truth right there. At least it is some sunshine?
  22. Colorado population is 5.8M. Utah is 3.2M, Arizona is 7.3M, Tennessee is 6.8M, Hawaii is 1.4M. Texas is 29M. And Texas, because it was a country, doesn't have much national forests or BLM lands. Compared to anywhere else west of the Mississippi it just doesn't have much public lands. I didn't think anyone seriously would disagree. On nice weekends in the fall/spring it is very hard to find a state campsite. There are only a handful of overnight backpacking trails in the entire state. We are something like 45 out of 50 in public lands, as a percentage of land.
  23. Earth tilt causes the seasons, but aphelion is a point in orbit. Separate mechanisms. He mentions it because he is a huuuuuuge nerd.
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