Foreman Porgy Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 1 hour ago, sauromosis said: Clerks, you never go... Hands to mouth? 💩 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinemaps Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 5 hours ago, BrickLegacy said: Ohioans should be prepared for no school the rest of the year. If you aren't taking this threat seriously yet, you should probably reconsider. This caused my wife to panic, thinking about our son, who is an at-risk reader (reading below grade level). We're not in Ohio, but even the thought of the schools being closed for the rest of the school year can be panic-inducing. If that happens, I hope some serious thought goes into how we address this. Get rid of summer vacation, or something. Kids can't lose out on half of their current school year's education. 4 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said: Michigan Youth Soccer Association has everything on hold till April 5th , however they don’t have any authority over soccer domes/plexes etc .. some of those are still going on with various limitations Ice Hockey and Little League are shut done until April 5th as well in SoCal. Funny enough, our small dance academy, where the daughter dances, is not closed (for now). 3 hours ago, ravenb99 said: Ah the ol' fecal oral transmission. Brings back great memories 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Germany to close borders with Austria, France, Switzerland: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-borders/germany-to-close-borders-with-austria-france-switzerland-media-reports-idUSKBN2120TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Mack Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 33 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said: This caused my wife to panic, thinking about our son, who is an at-risk reader (reading below grade level). We're not in Ohio, but even the thought of the schools being closed for the rest of the school year can be panic-inducing. If that happens, I hope some serious thought goes into how we address this. Get rid of summer vacation, or something. Kids can't lose out on half of their current school year's education. Ice Hockey and Little League are shut done until April 5th as well in SoCal. Funny enough, our small dance academy, where the daughter dances, is not closed (for now). Yep...Send the kids in Summer. My son got a ton of work that has to be done everyday by 3:00PM, just like regular school. All the teachers have sent in work and have online communication. This is where the internet will shine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenb99 Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 My daughter is an aerialist as some of you know. Turned professional about 6 months ago. Works for a local entertainment company. All of their jobs were cancelled for the next 2 months for the most part. Most jobs included night clubs, corporate functions, weddings, school proms, sports and community events so none of that going on now. For some that is their full time income so obviously they will have to look for other work in the time being. As far as training which is demanding to keep up the required strength a lot of the gyms they train at have gone to reduced training without normal classes. More of a one person per apparatus type thing and then cleaning of that apparatus for the next day so no one else comes in contact with it. Thinking about getting her a portable rig so she can train on her own out our warehouse until things resume to normal and so that she's ready to go physically when things do resume. Lots of changes in all aspects of life right now. Crunch time during senior year with prom being cancelled that was next week and graduation not to far off its a lot on the kids to adjust to as well. Exams and AP credit towards college will be interesting to see how it gets implemented if the school year is lost or goes to far past to where they could make that up. Schools have been sending out some preliminary ideas to where they may do the AP exams in early summer and make sure the colleges accept them so that the students still get credit towards their college hours. Important to be there for them as parents and keep them positive. 1 minute ago, Ed Mack said: Yep...Send the kids in Summer. My son got a ton of work that has to be done everyday by 3:00PM, just like regular school. All the teachers have sent in work and have online communication. This is where the internet will shine. you'd be surprised how many teachers were not prepared for something like this. Some seem to struggle to actually teach in classrooms these days with most kids learning themselves on their own time. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Mack Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, ravenb99 said: My daughter is an aerialist as some of you know. Turned professional about 6 months ago. Works for a local entertainment company. All of their jobs were cancelled for the next 2 months for the most part. Most jobs included night clubs, corporate functions, weddings, school proms, sports and community events so none of that going on now. For some that is their full time income so obviously they will have to look for other work in the time being. As far as training which is demanding to keep up the required strength a lot of the gyms they train at have gone to reduced training without normal classes. More of a one person per apparatus type thing and then cleaning of that apparatus for the next day so no one else comes in contact with it. Thinking about getting her a portable rig so she can train on her own out our warehouse until things resume to normal and so that she's ready to go physically when things do resume. Lots of changes in all aspects of life right now. Crunch time during senior year with prom being cancelled that was next week and graduation not to far off its a lot on the kids to adjust to as well. Exams and AP credit towards college will be interesting to see how it gets implemented if the school year is lost or goes to far past to where they could make that up. Schools have been sending out some preliminary ideas to where they may do the AP exams in early summer and make sure the colleges accept them so that the students still get credit towards their college hours. Important to be there for them as parents and keep them positive. you'd be surprised how many teachers were not prepared for something like this. Some seem to struggle to actually teach in classrooms these days with most kids learning themselves on their own time. Facetime, Skype and similar apps and similar apps will become very important over the next few months. But parents will be important as well. My wife has been laying out the daily work and game plan for my son. He thinks it is Fortnite all day. He has another thing coming... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenb99 Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 10 minutes ago, Ed Mack said: Facetime, Skype and similar apps and similar apps will become very important over the next few months. But parents will be important as well. My wife has been laying out the daily work and game plan for my son. He thinks it is Fortnite all day. He has another thing coming... heh isn't fortnite all day everyday? Actually never played it, just sold the stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Mack Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, ravenb99 said: heh isn't fortnite all day everyday? Actually never played it, just sold the stuff I like it. I love watching the drama. Gets pretty intense. I'm trying to get him to play the new COD and Battlefield. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickolodon Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Just watched movie Contagion (2011)..,that’s how fiction movie become a reality.FEDs updates 0% interest rates https://apple.news/AdDtorRG9R6yohFKrAQLBqQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crayxlp Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, brickolodon said: Just watched movie Contagion (2011)..,that’s how fiction movie become a reality. Except the most basic fact that that was totally fatal and lethal virus.. I dont think its reasonable to spread a panic like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudoty Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Ed Mack said: Yep...Send the kids in Summer. My son got a ton of work that has to be done everyday by 3:00PM, just like regular school. All the teachers have sent in work and have online communication. This is where the internet will shine. Except for the 20% of the kids in the USA that don’t have it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkrigger Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Scholastic is offering free online classes for student affected by shutdowns. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/15/us/scholastic-coronavirus-students-trnd/index.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinemaps Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Ed Mack said: Yep...Send the kids in Summer. My son got a ton of work that has to be done everyday by 3:00PM, just like regular school. All the teachers have sent in work and have online communication. This is where the internet will shine. I wish we had that. Our teachers were unprepared for this. Despite being in SoCal, our district is a rural district, that run from well-to-do, to very poor. We have an Indian Reservation in our district. Despite a casino, the families are not well off. Our district is broke - we had to cancel all but 2 bus routes in the district this year. As much as I love the idea of online, it will be a challenge here (and in a lot of other areas). I hoping that our district's teachers will be able to start assembling work plans and at least emailing them out. Not sure tho - a lot of them have their laptops at school, and our district has completely closed the campus until it has been thoroughly cleaned. So there literally is no access even if these teachers wanted to pull together stuff they already had. Hopefully they will be able to pull together, and get some more generalized documents out. We'll see how it goes this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pseudoty Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Tomorrow there will be 2 press conferences to discuss the new life we will come to know in the USA. Possible travel restrictions within the country, bars and restaurants closings as some states did today (Ohio and Illinois) and this which I have no idea why it is out before the presser: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/technology/matt-colvin-hand-sanitizer-donation.html 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickolodon Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Updates https://www.coursera.org/coronavirusNevada closed all schools until April 13th$700 billion QE program https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/A6F7057D-4802-4294-876E-DCB19C96BC3C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bold-Arrow Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/technology/matt-colvin-hand-sanitizer-donation.html Well that story ended on a good note, then again I am sure his options were limited after his name and pic went viral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Twain Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Twain Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Should note the recommendation does not apply to schools or workplaces. Those have separate more detailed and nuanced guidelines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaisonline Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 6 hours ago, Ed Mack said: I like it. I love watching the drama. Gets pretty intense. I'm trying to get him to play the new COD and Battlefield. My kids also have school work while I work from home. He won’t be playing games all day but he'll try. I'm getting pretty good at Fortnite for an old man. 4 solo wins in 35 games this season (w/ bunch of 2nd place finishes). They key is not land at hotspots. Gets mats, ammo, & weapons. Build, build, build for height advantages. Go all out after the 3rd - 4th storm. My 10 yr old son plays on a laptop and I use an Xbox. He's far better than me although I need to limit his screen time or he gets too intense. Video games is def an addiction for kids that has a cold turkey period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin4172 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I think a lot of people everywhere in the World are still not aware of this threat. Most are still ignoring. Especially the elderly. Of those I know they think theyve seen everything in their lives and its just a overreacting by the media. But they dont get that nobody of us now living ever experienced that. 25000 people infected in italy by now. And they still are talkkng just like nothing happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iahawks550 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 We are going to see dentists and doctors with a no-elective procedure policy shortly. More and more states will be shutting down restaurants and bars. This is slowly heading to the inevitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KvHulk Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Monday morning on the Airtrain to JFK airport. No one sits next to anyone anymore. On a plus side, plenty of seats! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil B Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) Pick-a-Brick still operational. Edited March 16, 2020 by Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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