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smoky

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  1. I'll give nothing but pos rep for a week to the poster that puts together a collage of all the horns down from this weekend.
  2. So is it automatically 30 minutes, unless there's another lightning strike and the 30 minute clock starts over?
  3. hold on... they actually have their own hand sign?
  4. "a single and two errors.... just a lot of scribbling on the page" 🤣
  5. My time playing hide-and-seek has come to an end. Allergy like symptoms and scratchy throat on Tuesday evening/ Wednesday morning. Took a home test on Wed and that thing turned positive within seconds. This is on par with most colds/ bad allergies I've had within the past 5 years. Slight dry cough/ sometimes drippy nose & sore throat in the morning. I'm sleeping fine and no fever. Continued to work from home. If this is where we settle with this virus, that would be ideal. Fully vaccinated in March 2021, no booster.
  6. I had em at 16 all above my left waist. There's a scar patch of about a dozen of them that you can still see.
  7. Anyone else run the Austin marathon today? This was my second marathon (and last?) And I shaved twenty minutes off my first go round to get under 4 hours, which was my stretch goal. My calves are on fire, but I'm good with it. The logistics in putting on a marathon is nuts and I think these guys do a good job.
  8. Should have just asked him the time, and moved on.
  9. And that's fair... I can't argue with that. Would Mayor Neonmoon have a mask mandate for K-12 schools right now?
  10. Yeah, I'm not really seeing those reversals. I'm seeing folks dig in deeper. i.e. Today, DC announced they're lifting their indoor mandate for basically everywhere but schools. Nearby Virginia state congressmen voted along party lines today to keep/ lift the state school mask mandate. I pointed upthread about the fuzziness in the Michigan data for districts with mandates vs ones without. The point I'm trying to make is that I can't think of a reason that you would enforce a mask mandate at schools that you wouldn't also enforce everywhere else. I asked the question because I haven't seen "If we get to X, we'll lift the mandate for schools." We actually got to that threshold back in the fall, but because APH never moved us to Stage 2, the mask mandate in schools stayed in effect. Most reasonable people would say, well as long as the hospitalization is low OR as long as the death rate for kids is X%, we don't need to mandate masks in schools. In Austin, where I am, with three fully vaccinated kids in AISD schools I don't see the need to mask them up. I also don't see AISD moving to 'masks optional' any time soon because they aren't guided by data. If we're going to "follow the science" as Dr Elizalde put it in December, we need to have metrics and offramps that coincide with those metrics. We shouldn't go by polling or whether you're taking a picture with Magic Johnson or whether you're in a 4th grade classroom. Either masks work and we need to mandate and enforce it everywhere or drop the charade. We shouldn't be following the science of Summer 2020 now that vaccinations are ubiquitous. And the beauty with options is, if you want to mask your child in a properly fit-tested N95 respirator, you can do that.
  11. And schools... What would your data point / local metric be that would give families the option to send their kids to school in a mask or not?
  12. LA County's mask mandate doesn't differentiate between indoor and outdoor venues if the crowd is over 5k. Anything over 5k attendance requires a mask. http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/ncorona2019/masks/
  13. What's even funnier is hearing the opinions of parents that haven't the foggiest idea what school COVID policies actually look like in practice. My kids' middle school still has plexiglass dividers up in the cafeteria.
  14. We might be. There aren't many places where masks are actually mandated. Schools are one of them, which makes masks a point of contention for some people. That content bleeds out into society. I think if you make masks optional at schools, you'll eliminate a lot of the overall bitching about masks. I asked you what you think a good metric would be to allow masks to be optional instead of mandated because the school districts have not provided much insight into when that would be. Curious what your take would be.
  15. What data point would you use to decide it was okay for a school district to switch to masks optional?
  16. Looking at the data, about half of Travis county's deaths happened before widespread rollout of vaccinations. If I'm reading the data right, we were at 684 total, this time last year. From then to now, 237 deaths were aged 70 and up. Add in 60+ and you're at 382 total. That group was highly vaxxed, but older... And apparently had some other things going on. It's probably a decent bet that the other 300 deaths were unvaccinated and had comorbities.
  17. I just don't think Americans are even aware of where we fall compared to the countries we consider our contemporaries. Then again, maybe they are fully aware. One lesson the last 2 years have taught me is that Americans can not care better than any other country in the world. I dont know where we'd fall for other stats like life expectancy and average BMI, but I'd guess if Brazil is at 1k and we're at 3k that we live longer and are fatter.
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