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drt

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  1. Middle and high school are more able to learn via a remote environment. Limited evidence that smaller kiddos create fewer particles with less velocity out of the lungs, resulting in lower viral load passed on if they are infected. So are less likely to pass the virus via airborne transmission. Regarding that point: I don't know if I agree with that younger kid premise, as I haven't read the studies but people are clinging to it. Neighbor was going on about how no contact tracing in the US has indicated a smaller child has passed the virus on via airborne, but that's pure anecdote and I don't have sources. Honestly seems to good to be true to me.
  2. So I'm about 140 miles into this and I really like it. It has a few minor annoyances (uses phone GPS when I'm in the driveway close to the house, and tree cover really affects accuracy), and I wish I'd paid a bit more to get one of the Garmins that incorporate training status/effect but overall I'm digging not carrying the phone on runs. I haven't used it on as many trail runs as I'd like, as most of my runs have been after the kids hit the sack. One day I hope to play golf again, so we'll see if I ever get to play around with that functionality.
  3. NVM, after a quick google you have a ridge beam there, meaning the 2x6 is spec'd for the load and unsupported length is highly important. You can't remove the support without engineering around it. An actual engineer can tell you how, if it's possible.
  4. Without seeing the rest of the framing, no idea. But I'd guess it has the effect of shortening the unsupported span of the ridge beam, meaning removal would involve more than you'd think. Call an engineer, ours in Centex is cheap for a quick question like this ($150) and you don't have to worry about your house collapsing.
  5. You're not wrong about a poor kid not having an education and being screwed, but those poorer children are more likely to be overweight and have other health issues. So it stands to reason that in 10-20 years they have more health issues with the virus and it's secondary effects than their well-off peers. They absolutely do have a higher likelihood of living with grandma and grandpa and other family members, who also are more likely to have health issues. You might be robbing Peter to pay Paul .
  6. You can’t have one teacher alone in a room. Not being an ass but you obviously don’t know much about daycare.
  7. Also, a ton of them only had one main door for security reasons. Ours uses a different entrance for each class, but that’s simply not possible with tons of facilities
  8. In my limited experience ya the good ones do. But we visited as many bad ones as we did good ones. case in point our current one is as you describe, but they’ve still had to split all but the infant rooms to accomplish pods of less than 10 people. I think prior to all of this the state max was 15 kids with 2 teachers
  9. Daycare has its own challenges that k-12 doesn’t, can you expand on what you mean? Plus when we did the tour around what seemed like half the south Austin daycares 3 or 4 years ago the chain daycares were filthy and did not seem to have staff that I would trust to sanitize a room. The education level of those teachers varies wildly.
  10. Excellent point, but if you ask the TEA I'm sure the answer will involve more standardized testing.
  11. F'ing this. Donated last week and enjoyed the hell out of the 2 beers and whole pizza that followed. Plus I got a free whataburger coupon from the blood bank.
  12. It's not in the margin of error. Texas is significantly fatter than NY, NJ, MASS etc, as are most southern states. Has been a trend as long as the CDC has been keeping stats on it. I'm not sure what your hard on for the NE is, but I don't agree that our current surge in Texas was always going to hit these numbers. We fucked up by not mandating masks and keeping reasonable social distancing restrictions in place, and then doubled down by moving through reopening stages at a fast enough rate that it wasn't possible to quantify the effects of the changes we made.
  13. End by July? "Normal" days in the Fall?
  14. Technically, the entire country has plenty. But the south has more, percentage wise.
  15. Dude, the south has all the fat fucks. People in the NE that live in cities with mass transit actually walk on a daily basis, compared to the walmart electric cart riders we have down here. And really? Because it seems pretty obvious that the curve leveled off for a few months in response to the SIP, even if it didn't start to go down. And in those months we not only stockpiled medical supplies, we learned how better to treat the virus, and knocked down serious outbreaks in parts of the country rather than trying to have the whole country go through the outbreak at the same time. It's not the northeast's fault we didn't learn to mask up and keep social distancing after the SIP was lifted.
  16. No idea. All of this is a shitshow.
  17. https://www.kxan.com/news/education/aisd-teachers-union-to-call-for-100-online-learning-this-fall-at-11-a-m-press-conference/ Cliff's notes, they want 2 more months before F2F classes resume.
  18. You better hope we're not. 3 million cases thus far over 4 months, and we're still watching the Texas numbers like a hawk hoping that hospitals don't get overwhelmed. In a country of 330 million people we'd need millions more cases to reach herd immunity. I don't understand how you think this works out from a numbers standpoint.
  19. Probably better for the medical thread, but it's not the first corticosteroid to be used for treatment, dexamethasone being another one. And somehow I don't think an anti-inflammatory is going to be the thing that cures this virus. It's just another tool that works for some patients better than others. Plus, any doc that thinks he's found a self described "silver bullet" after one patient probably would be practicing medicine in the Permian Basin.
  20. I stopped looking because I had the same experience.
  21. Immunity to other Coronaviruses commonly lasts between 8-15 months from what I've seen reported. So it's probably more correct to say the assholes will probably have a while before they spread it again.
  22. Ah ok, I get what you're looking at now. I just don't trust the most recent data in that chart as being indicative of much with testing and reporting delays being what they are now. For all we know we could have a huge catch up day on Tuesday and the trend would be wrecked. If we make it to the end of the week and the trend line on new cases is still pointing down, I'll probably be more hopeful we're on the right track. I'm really hoping the hospitalization rates start to level off more than anything.
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