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  1. 1 hour ago, Red Six said:

    It's here. It's almost as if TEA is trying to be intentionally opaque.

    The answer to No. 38:

    "No. For any day an LEA closes a campus as a result of a confirmed COVID-19 case on campus, remote instruction will be funded. However, to allow sufficient time to resolve the public health concerns while minimizing academic disruption, campuses may only remain closed to on-campus instruction for up to five consecutive days (including the original closure) day, while drawing funding for all students participating in remote instruction. A closure period does not end until the campus has reopened for on-campus instruction for at least one instructional day."

    I'm not sure if that "five consecutive days" includes weekends or holidays.

    Note also that this determines funding. Everything about this boils down to controlling pursestrings. If the districts want money, they have to comply. There are ways to seek waivers for other instructional day requirements; let's see if they don't create that option in the coming weeks for this requirement, because right now, you can basically be 5-off, 1-on, 5-off in perpetuity until there are zero positives.

    They are money whipping us with our tax dollars into an epidemiological experiment. Let’s see how it plays out!

  2. 1 hour ago, Red Six said:

    It's here. It's almost as if TEA is trying to be intentionally opaque.

    The answer to No. 38:

    "No. For any day an LEA closes a campus as a result of a confirmed COVID-19 case on campus, remote instruction will be funded. However, to allow sufficient time to resolve the public health concerns while minimizing academic disruption, campuses may only remain closed to on-campus instruction for up to five consecutive days (including the original closure) day, while drawing funding for all students participating in remote instruction. A closure period does not end until the campus has reopened for on-campus instruction for at least one instructional day."

    I'm not sure if that "five consecutive days" includes weekends or holidays.

    Note also that this determines funding. Everything about this boils down to controlling pursestrings. If the districts want money, they have to comply. There are ways to seek waivers for other instructional day requirements; let's see if they don't create that option in the coming weeks for this requirement, because right now, you can basically be 5-off, 1-on, 5-off in perpetuity until there are zero positives.

    Up to.

     

    thats not what Abbott said. He said, paraphrasing, it’s a fact that that any school with a positive case will close for 5 days for cleaning. He is either dissembling or the tea guidance is not precisely worded. I’d wager both. 

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  3. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    He doesn't deserve fairness for recognizing what 80% of the country recognized.  He thinks his PhD in Economics grants him expert status in epidemiology.  (I have literally seen him brag in interviews that "this is what he does", referring to statistical studies, which is so broad a brush as to border on ridiculous.)

    He was throwing up the red flag in late January. I would say that public tide turned later in February, and most substantially in March.  I think that a review of the threads on the topic here would probably bare out a similar timeline. I agree on the rest. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Navarro is a special kind of evil.  He's a total cockmunch who is quite sure he's the smartest guy on the planet, a raging asshole, and clearly way out over his skis.  Fuck that guy.

    In some fairness to Navarro, he was one of the only people inside the administration taking the COVID threat seriously from the jump.  Not sure why he is doing the HCQ thing, but it really is a strange grab bag of personalities that cling to it. 

  5. 8 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    Not this shit again. Negged.

    Meh, I'm gonna wait until the early intervention RCT is published to bump that topic.  The results are negative, but the ink has to dry.  And BTW, the FDA has access to all that RCT data, while Navarro is doing his thing based on an observational study. 

  6. 20 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    Yeah, we talked about it on another thread, not sure which, they all blend together.
    Prior to the adjustment, they were not counting patients who came into hospitals without an existing positive Covid test, then popped for it upon admittance. Which is, in true COA fashion, hilariously absent minded.

    Yeah, that was like this week though, not back in June. You're probably right, just never saw that on the chart before and it jumped out. 

  7. ETA: Responding to Brad...

    That chart is deaths per capita. And yes, we agree that case numbers are unreliable. I agree with the gist of everything you said, just think that we should not be looking at case numbers in isolation. In the final analysis when we compare our outcomes vs other countries, the primary measure for that comparison will be fatalities. 

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  8. 9 hours ago, BradInATX said:

    You can talk about death rates based on the very early stages of Covid when nobody knew what it was, and when it hit Europe earlier and harder than the US. But the bottom line is, and there is absolutely no denying this, we as a country have been one of the worst on Earth in terms of mitigating the ongoing presence of Covid.

    I don't disagree with anything in your post at all, but presenting the case numbers alone, without also present the testing numbers and fatality numbers, doesn't really tell the whole tale. 

    daily-total-tests.jpg


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  9. 33 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

    There's tons of shit the government dictates that I don't like and I'm not going to get a refund if I don't partake in it.  As special as you think your children are, their education is no different. 

    The silver lining in this exchange is apparently you have not procreated yet. 

  10. 50 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

    You never answered the question of why you're not required to kick in your full share to the public school system and I am.  

    I actually did. We both kick in the same “amount” towards education of children in this state. Of course my proposal empowers parents of school aged children and is financially advantageous for the school district. Yours boils down to, if you don’t like what the government dictates to you, including running an experiment on your children with their lives and yours at stake, fuck off and homeschool or send them to private school. You want decision making concentrated  at levels two or three steps removed from children and their parents. I want it concentrated in parents. 

  11. 4 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    agree on the italian at HS.  i never get the pizza at pieous either.  pastrami sammy all the way.

    This guys knows. 

  12. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    At least Pieous has great pizza.

    Have you tried the pastrami yet? Because it migth be the best thing on their menu. And that is not intended to take anything at all away from teh pizza. 

  13. 2 hours ago, Stannis said:

    This morning Gilead released additional positive data on Remdesivir.  If I recall correctly, initial testing indicated that while Remdesivir was found to reduce hospital duration from an average of 15 to 11 days, there was no observed benefit on mortality.  The newly released data apparently shows that Remdesivir reduced the risk of death for severely sick patients by 62% compared with standard care alone.  The data comes from comparing 312 patients enrolled in a phase three trial who received Remdesivir with 818 patients in a "real-world restrospective cohort" who received standard of care with no Remdesivir.  This needs to be confirmed with a placebo-controlled, double-blind study.  But these initial results seem even more promising than the results that Dr. Fauci touted originally.  

    Gilead Says Remdesivir Coronavirus Treatment Reduces Risk of Death

     

     

     

    This analysis is 100% garbage. 

     

    ETA: to be clear the Gilead analysis, not your description re: the need for confirmation.

     

  14. 6 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

    Right, but you're wanting to accomplish this by asking that the government either return money to you from the public till or not take it to begin with due to incremental costs that are not being incurred due to choices you would like to make and not wanting the government to extend that same courtesy to me. 

    If you saw the dysfunction in the system first hand last semester, you would be advocating to re-direct your contribution to things that might actually work as well. 

  15. 3 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    A #Stonx Tale

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html

    Wally's rules:
    #1 - there are no rules
    #2 - don't get emotionally attached to winners or losers, take some small loses before you lose the entire investment
    #246 - when something is running up, take out at least your initial investment, case-in-point about 12% of my holdings in ALT and covered all of my initial investment

    I hope he at least paid of the CC and HELOC on the ride up.

    I can imagine making that sort of run and not pulling huge chunks of cash off the table.  But I can also imagine the adrenaline rush involved cloud decision making.

    Can I tell you more about the SPY puts that I am riding into the side of the mountain right now because I am too stubborn to take the loss. 

  16. 5 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

    Who is taking away from your choice?

    Coming back to what actually start this whole tangent, there are lots of parents, across the political spectrum and across various levels of ability, staring down the barrel of fall 2020  and actively exploring their options for what education for their children looks like in the near-term future.  It would be nice if we had a system in place that would support their ability to direct and provide safe and effective education. What we have instead is top down decision making driven by bureaucrats who whip everyone downstream with the money we send them to fund public education.  We already had to basically provide the education that the public system was suppose to provide last semester, and the same thing is about to happen again.    

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  17. 11 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Ah I see so your desire...

    I've been clear on my desire, but you seem confused, so I will restate. 

    I  would just like a public education system that empowers parents with choice, districts with accountability, and keeps control as local as practical.

     

    I am open to other ideas on how to achieve that.  I am not dogmatic about it.  But maybe we can come up with something more than lets just throw more money at status quo centralized decision making and away from parental choice. 

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