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"a single and two errors.... just a lot of scribbling on the page"
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holy shit!
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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.
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The whole thread is amazing.I’m going to hell for laughing my ass off at this tweet.
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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.
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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. -
Should have just asked him the time, and moved on.
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4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
I don’t care enough to provide examples of states and schools that have dropped mask mandates. It is happening. It may not be happening in Austin yet, but it will eventually. You can’t expect a place that elected Fitlump to run smoothly
And that's fair... I can't argue with that.
Would Mayor Neonmoon have a mask mandate for K-12 schools right now?
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14 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
Most schools are rescinding the mask mandates. If not now, they will be soon.
What point are you trying to make?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.
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And schools...The effects of long term isolation? They are the biggest bunch of pussies.
Also, Who in the fuck is still isolated? Hell, most mask mandates are gone. The only thing left is airplane masks.
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?
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LA County's mask mandate doesn't differentiate between indoor and outdoor venues if the crowd is over 5k.Isn't the stadium considered an outside venue? (serious question, since I know it has a roof of sorts)
Anything over 5k attendance requires a mask.
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/ncorona2019/masks/
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Just now, tchookem said:8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:It is always funny hearing the loudly voiced opinions of the posters that don't have children on such matters as schooling and school covid policies.
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.
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17 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
I don't think we're talking about the same thing
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.
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54 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
I still to this can't believe we're bitching about wearing a piece of cloth over our faces. We are a nation of fucking toddlers. Just the weakest of the weak
What data point would you use to decide it was okay for a school district to switch to masks optional?
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Looking at the data, about half of Travis county's deaths happened before widespread rollout of vaccinations.i wonder if they could cross that data with vaccination status...or do we already know that like 98% of deaths were also unvaccinated?
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.
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4 minutes ago, tchookem said:8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:Hopefully they dont put first world mortality reporting on the same footing as third world mortality reporting.
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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Maybe that's AISD dumping their clinic scores into the pot?
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USMNT 2022
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3 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:Lol no stoppage time. That’s funny
Same amount of stoppage time as the temperature.
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2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Do the "rules" in CA make such a distinction.
They do! I'm glad you asked. The rules were updated 1/18/22.
In SoFi stadium, you would not have to wear a mask if:
- You were showering or swimming
- There were fewer than 5,000 in attendance
- You were getting a shave
- You were alone
- Actively eating ("This means that you can briefly remove your mask when you are actually eating or drinking but you must put it back on immediately afterwards. You must also wear a mask when you are waiting to be served, between courses or drinks, and while seated after finishing your food or drink.")
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20 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:
Sofi stadium is open air. Not a dome, a canopy
I know, I think that would be an important separator, especially in an idyllic climate such as SoCal's, but LA County doesn't differentiate within their mandate.
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2 minutes ago, Jambon said:
Went to the game last night and had nose bleed tickets. Texas fans sucks. The arena looked to be about 95% full at the end but it took close to the end of the first half to get there. People were still filing in late into the first half. I don't get this. What is so hard about getting to the game on time.
For us, it was because the entire area is a construction zone with sidewalks that lead to nowhere.
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On 1/24/2022 at 6:15 PM, Anastasis said:
Link to the actual study?
On 1/24/2022 at 6:33 PM, Willfully Horn said:My search skills are too poor. Maybe it hasn’t been released, though @smoky found an update, he says, which I also haven’t been able to find. But, the story is all over media in Michigan, and I have no reason to doubt it.
Sixty percent isn’t infinitesimal. There may be other factors than masks, and any of those variables which we can control ought be put in place. Within reason, and cost. Masks fall into both categories.
Sorry if this is beyond the statute of limitations for a reply, but tapa isn't good at notifying posters when you're mentioned or have a dm...
This is the slide that produced the original story:
Quotelink: MI COVID response Data and modeling update (michigan.gov)
What I'm still unclear on is their methodology. Based on the footnote in the lower left, it seems as though they're counting cases from the 5-18 age group and then applying it to the public school area that those cases are originating in. So, in ATX terms, if a 10 year old in zip code 78758 gets sick, they'd see that as a case for a school with "masks required" even if that kid went to private school with a lax mask policy or was home schooled.
So the article was printed based on that slide.
Michigan then continued the study, as it's relatively easy to do once you have the dataset set up. Through 12/6 here is the same slide.
Quotelink: MI COVID response Data and modeling update (michigan.gov)
And this was presented really before Omicron took off. I'd suspect they'll update it again in the near future and the lines will still overlap.
The second graph doesn't mean masks don't work, just like the first graph doesn't mean that masks do work. The study was flawed in their data collection.
After doing some digging on why they weren't pulling data directly from school district data, I found my answer when I ran across this article:
How many COVID cases are in Michigan schools? State has no idea anymore | Bridge Michigan
Basically, if you really want to present an argument as gospel, there's a dataset out there that will support your claim (which is why we have crazies everywhere).
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Greenville Super Regional: Texas @ East Carolina
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hold on... they actually have their own hand sign?