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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Eastwood replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
Dr. Maika of NEISD has taken a similar approach in that he leans on the current legal landscape. He says that the district's legal counsel has advised him to follow the state government rather than the local government, but then, unless I misheard, the lawyer that presented at a school board meeting stated that the San Antonio suit would eventually reach the US Supreme Court. I didn't see a federal question in the suit and the suit relied on Texas law and the Texas Constitution only, so I don't see how it would reach the Supreme Court after the Texas Supreme Court rules on it. -
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I hate call in shows. Nails on a chalk board. I switched over yesterday and like clockwork, some SEC yokel gets on there and this little song and dance happens: "Pack, you said that it was close between that Texas team and 2019 LSU for greatest team, but what about my Bama team from last year? That was a pretty stout..." "No, I think with COVID happening, we just had too much uncertainty and it's hard to quantify..." "Well, I dunno, Pack. My Tide had a pretty good football team last year and they went undefeated." "I'm not saying they're not a good or even great team, but (insert valid LSU and Texas facts)." *sad yokel noises* And it's every. Damn. Day. "Well, I dunno, Pack. That 2001 Kentucky team had some great players on it. I think they could have made the SEC championship team if they played this year." "Gee, Pack, from where I'm a sittin', I think my '03 Gamecocks would have won the SEC East last year." Dumb take after dumb take followed by sad yokel noises. It isn't even entertaining. It's painful.
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That corroborates what was in the reddit thread in /r/nursing. Very, very low survival rate once the vent goes on. This disease is insanely nasty. Contagious for a long time before it finally puts someone down, then it seems like a crap shoot just how down someone will be. I've seen a large uptick in my own personal circle of acquaintances that are either down or related to someone down. We really need this thing to peak in the next 60 days because I have a feeling that pandemic fatigue is at the boiling point and then we'll see what COVID's limits as a disease really are come winter.
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Cole Beasley Sent Home From Bills Facility On Tuesday
Eastwood replied to Mileslong's topic in Cloak Room
This thread is proof that the football board is just as bad as the Cloak Room.- 323 replies
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
In June, we were living like it was 2019 and had the kids in the gym daycare no masks. Within two weeks, a fever spread throughout the house one person at a time for all of a day. Didn't even last long enough to get tested. Lots of friends with small kids had something similar. Something burned through all the kids quickly within two weeks of coming back into the world. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
This is exactly why we pulled our kids. Essentially, things will change on a weekly basis and schools may shut down on occasion until this has passed. Our kids have never been in a classroom before, due to their age, so we didn't want to give them a glimpse of what they could be having and then have it taken away from them. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
I watched that movie last night, so this reference hits close to home. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
For comparison's sake, NEISD in San Antonio had 291 students and 161 employees pop last week. 268 of the 291 were in the first 3 days and 148 of those cases were elementary school children. -
Occam's Razor: all other hospitals more capable of treating him are too full to take him and Regeneron is still scarce and not available at his care facility. That's the reality for most of Texas, right now. Everyone needs to stay safe and healthy, right now, and not just with COVID. If you have an accident, there is no guarantee that you'll receive appropriate care for your injuries, at the moment.
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For a lot of them, it's a John Locke social contract level of survival. I had a heart to heart with my mom a couple of days ago about how I realize that she moved out of state and lives in a small town and her church group are the only friends that she has. Of course she feels she has to parrot all of the talking points and question the vaccine. Her friendships and social survival depend on it. It's all she hears about every day. She has probably seen others ostracized and banished over opposing opinions. So, no matter how long she has been in the medical field, no matter how many infectious disease continuing education sessions she's been in, and even when her own eyes tell her the real story when she works in a local care facility, her social well-being depends on toeing the line. My rural roots will always give me an avenue of sympathy for these people. I've been there. I lived it. I know the community pressure they are under. And in a lot of those towns, the youth that would be a benefit to those towns go off to college and never come back because Muleshoe or Iraan or El Campo or Trinity have nothing to offer an educated individual trying to earn the best living possible. On top of that, the internet has become a window into the urban settings that rural youth didn't have in the 90s and early 00s. So, indoctrination of the idea that big city living is a horror show doesn't work anymore, either. Rural America, deep down, knows that it is dying. Not just from COVID, but from lack of progress. The communities that do remain are tight-knit because they feel like they are fighting for survival. Of course they are going to act like this. In a very fascist way, the rural people better hit that like button on Facebook and stay on message, or they lose the only friends and connections they have. Unfortunately for them, progress always drags people forward, eventually, no matter how much they kick and scream over it.
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I would just like to point out that Huffines wants to eliminate property taxes. Of course a real estate developer wants to eliminate property taxes. His base rallies behind it because they view property taxes as the government claiming ownership over the land, but they don't stop to think that a real estate developer is advocating for the elimination of what is essentially his biggest uncontrolled cost in his business, and for any raw, undeveloped land he owns, it would be his only cost to hold it. Doesn't matter if it has to be replaced with a substantial income tax because he's rich and can dodge that. Eliminating property taxes would make him way more rich than he already is.
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I genuinely think they do this type of shit on purpose. Like the raptors testing the fences for weaknesses. We've been pretty firm with in-laws and grandparents during the pandemic about expectations, particularly one of the kids' grandmas who is in a very rural, very low-education location. "Before you come to visit, please stop seeing people for a week. We're really excited to have you here for 10 days." We have to do this because we know that her entire church probably didn't vaccinate. They probably formed small circles and Mongolian throat sang into each other's mouths to own the libs during a peak of the pandemic. Anyway, within 2 hours of her being here after an 8 hour drive, she starts rattling on about how she was at a potluck two days prior. Fun, fun, fun. BTW, her church had to go virtual last week because a very large portion of the congregation popped for COVID. Better now than then, at least. And she neglected to tell her parents, my great grandparents who were supposed to visit her soon, that her community is in the middle of an outbreak. I made sure they knew and they thanked me because now they're not going. But those same great grandparents in the fall of '20 promised to isolate, as well, in order to see their great grandchildren. We strictly isolated because I'll be damned if their deaths will be caused by us. 20 minutes into the visit, great grandfather talks about how he was at a church meeting a few days before we visited. You had one job, man. It happened so often during the heart of the pandemic that 1) we stopped planning anything with anyone in our family who was rural because they just couldn't help themselves, and 2) it happened so much that it had to be on purpose. It was as if they were trying to prove some kind of point. Fast forward a year and all of our rural family have lost friends to COVID. None of our family who live in cities have lost friends to COVID. If I had a vengeful streak, I'd be reminding the rural family constantly that it is but for the grace of God that it wasn't them and that they didn't get us sick.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Eastwood replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
All the best, man. I really feel for everyone locked into this bad situation. -
Thanks. We made the decision to home school and held out hope that we could put him back in if the mask mandate held for a month or two, which may have been long enough to get past this Delta spike under the caveat that this spike follows the trend in other countries. Looks like we are riding out the fall, at a minimum.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/covid-cases-increasing-at-neisd-school-leave-parents-worried-frustrated For context, Castle Hills is a year round school that started in mid-July. For the first month, they had 12 student to student COVID infections. They had 11 for all of last school year. 22 this past week alone. Delta is a different beast. Stay safe out there, guys. -
Can the much more seasoned law dogs give some kind of estimate as to timeline on how the rest of this will play out? I'm not putting my kids back in while there is still a potential for appellate flip flopping. Seeing as how SCOTX rammed their stay at 7 PM on a Sunday night, is it possible to get a final resolution out of this by the end of September?
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I've said this before about Cruz and Bill Barr, and I will say it now about Abbott... These guys know better. They have legit, top 1% legal resumes. They know what they are doing/saying isn't how the law of the land works, but they say it/do it anyway because 1) it rallies their base, and 2) by the time the legal realities play themselves out in court, every layperson who gets their news from only headlines has since moved on and doesn't care about the end result.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
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https://twitter.com/COSAGOV/status/1427069708050763778?s=20 San Antonio says the order is of little effect and will still require masks in schools. Will be interesting to see how this plays out into tomorrow,
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My kids just got done packing their lunches, too. Oh, well. Guess we start shopping for home school curriculum tomorrow instead.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
I agree that 20% is a significant breakthrough amount. Not vaccinated, well, we know the realities behind that. However, at least in Bexar County, 81% of 18+ have had at least 1 shot and 78.2% 12+ have had at least one shot. 66.8% fully vaxed 18+ and 63.9% fully vaxxed 12+. https://covid19.sanantonio.gov/Reports-Statistics/Dashboards-Data/Vaccination-Statistics If a school is hitting 20% of their staff out, it will be people who aren't fully vaccinated. Bottom line is that if we want schools to stay open, just on the logistics front, we need adults to get vaccinated. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
All it takes is 20% of the faculty gone to create massive problems. 20% of the food staff, 20% of the Admin, and 20% of the bus drivers will shut down a school because they won't be able to provide the necessary services that let the school run. -
AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Eastwood replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
The issue is that when the school does nothing right out of the gate, that gives me the impression that they will do nothing in the future. For grades 7-12, I have less concern because those kids can get vaccinated. Then it truly is a family choice whether they want to take active steps to prevent infection. Grades K-6 have no choice and are at the mercy of the public school system to accommodate as many people as possible. Those accommodations include, at a bare minimum, masking up everyone. Ideally, they would mask up everyone, break up lunches into smaller groups, spend more time outside, and social distance. But a true mask mandate that is actually enforced and done in good faith is a showing of good faith that the school district recognizes that there is mounting evidence that younger children may be affected, we will have plenty more evidence, one way or the other, after a month of school, and the school district will be willing to do something in the future, if needed. Show me nothing, I will expect nothing and my family will go to great lengths at our own expense to do something. As someone who pays a lot of property taxes, I would appreciate, and actually expect, the public school system to do it with the expense I already paid. Withdrawing my children does have an impact on the ISD's bottom line for next year. But, we are where we are and in the end and my accountability begins and ends with my family. I will do what is necessary to get them through what is, by all accounts, a time in our nation's history that will stand out in history books. -
Double post. I even knew that Tapa was trying to double post, stopped it, deleted the draft, and Tapa still did it, anyway. I keep coming back to Tapa and it keeps showing me that I should delete the app.
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The way I've explained this scenario, because it happens with every president, is that it never matters what the president says about oil. Oil, whether you like it or not, is the blood of our economy. Every single aspect of our economy, and the economy of the majority of the world, depends on oil and Petroleum products. So, even if a viable alternative is introduced, it will still take a couple of decades before oil is meaningfully removed from the economy. That isn't saying that the day will never come, that isn't saying that there are not viable alternatives already in existence, it is merely saying that whatever a president says regarding oil doesn't matter today. I will say that I have worked on renewable energy projects and every single one of those had to deal with claims that they were more harm than good. Wind ruins a beautiful horizon, kills bats and birds, and ruins the path of migratory animals. Solar takes up too much land, ruins natural beauty, and disrupts nesting grounds/migration paths. Hydro has all the same concerns. Nuclear creates nuclear waste, can have meltdowns, etc. The day will come when oil isn't needed, but it is likely that it won't be during the duration of what remains of our careers. I've said it before, but I wouldn't want my son to be in the oil industry, and he would be a 4th generation oil worker. The end is coming, but it is not nigh.
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