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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

so I'm guessing some of these folks are getting vaccinated on the down low and just not telling anybody.

 

My aunt's husband is a huge Trumper and was extremely anti-vax, so much so that my aunt hid from him that she got vaccinated.

After she got her second shot, she told him, and then he came around. He's now one of the most pro-vax people around.

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My aunt's husband is a huge Trumper and was extremely anti-vax, so much so that my aunt hid from him that she got vaccinated.
After she got her second shot, she told him, and then he came around. He's now one of the most pro-vax people around.

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5 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

Saw SRV at the Austin Opera House in 1987 so this hits close to home.  Carry on. 

Interesting. SRV was the best. The Austin opera house sucked. I guess I’d take it overall. SRV could easily overcome the suckiness, 

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1 hour ago, Bookman said:

My aunt's husband is a huge Trumper and was extremely anti-vax, so much so that my aunt hid from him that she got vaccinated.

After she got her second shot, she told him, and then he came around. He's now one of the most pro-vax people around.

Blowjobs and steaks for a week outta do it. 

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On 8/16/2021 at 7:59 PM, InkaUtexas said:

My GF works at a youth treatment center. Masks are mandatory, but she was telling me no one wears them. She started feeling really bad on Saturday and went and got a test today. Bad cough, slight fever. I don't feel 100%. Both fully vaccinated, we do not really go out (HEB, etc) so hoping it is just a cold that I read on here was going around. 

Fuckers need to get vaccinated. 

Hope all the littles are well. 

She came back Negative. I did not get the test since it was free for her (University covered it.). Fuck yeah! Keep up the alerts though. 

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I put this on the Port A thread, but in addition to all the restaurant closures over the last 2 weeks I know of one restaurant here that has 8/10 employees out with Covid. Only one employee was vaxxed. Delta is really bad here. I know a woman who passed away a day ago (not sure of vax status) and a 35 year old on a vent who I also don’t know if vaxxed. I’d guess not but he was definitely in great shape. Pharmacy friend of mine says they are seeing over 20 Covid cases a day. Shit is hitting too close to home. Y’all stay safe.

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7 hours ago, justhookit said:

I put this on the Port A thread, but in addition to all the restaurant closures over the last 2 weeks I know of one restaurant here that has 8/10 employees out with Covid. Only one employee was vaxxed. Delta is really bad here. I know a woman who passed away a day ago (not sure of vax status) and a 35 year old on a vent who I also don’t know if vaxxed. I’d guess not but he was definitely in great shape. Pharmacy friend of mine says they are seeing over 20 Covid cases a day. Shit is hitting too close to home. Y’all stay safe.

I went there right at the end of July.  I could tell that if even a few people showed up there positive all hell would break loose.  No one wearing masks, not even in the crowded IGA, lots of people that by their demographic profile you would expect to be unvaccinated.  They were already having restaurant staffing issues by then.  Time to find a different beach next time we travel.

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7 hours ago, justhookit said:

I put this on the Port A thread, but in addition to all the restaurant closures over the last 2 weeks I know of one restaurant here that has 8/10 employees out with Covid. Only one employee was vaxxed. Delta is really bad here. I know a woman who passed away a day ago (not sure of vax status) and a 35 year old on a vent who I also don’t know if vaxxed. I’d guess not but he was definitely in great shape. Pharmacy friend of mine says they are seeing over 20 Covid cases a day. Shit is hitting too close to home. Y’all stay safe.

Port O'Connor is pretty similiar - local joints are shorthanded atm but none of the locals give a shit about COVID. Not even the cashiers in speedy stop that see EVERYONE in POC

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1 minute ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

I went there right at the end of July.  I could tell that if even a few people showed up there positive all hell would break loose.  No one wearing masks, not even in the crowded IGA, lots of people that by their demographic profile you would expect to be unvaccinated.  They were already having restaurant staffing issues by then.  Time to find a different beach next time we travel.

Nah. Port A has been basically open since April/May of 2020 and had almost no Covid. Locals wore masks really well until the mandate got lifted and then masks went out the window like pretty much everywhere in Texas.

This is all Delta and it would happen in any tourist town, and is currently happening in every major city in Texas. It’s more noticeable here because we are small and like you mentioned were already having major staffing issues before this spike. Every restaurant in town has tested all their workers. I promise if you tested all the Austin or Dallas or Houston bar/restaurant employees you wouldn’t like the results. I’m just hoping we get over it quickly.

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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Port O'Connor is pretty similiar - local joints are shorthanded atm but none of the locals give a shit about COVID. Not even the cashiers in speedy stop that see EVERYONE in POC

Y’all might have focused too much on the one restaurant. Port A is probably about average as far as vaccinated percentage goes in Texas. Everyone I know is vaccinated and that’s mostly bar and restaurant people. The one, Roosevelt’s, just seems to have a bad group that fed off each other. On the bright side when they re-open it will be the safest place in town 

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11 minutes ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

I went there right at the end of July.  I could tell that if even a few people showed up there positive all hell would break loose.  No one wearing masks, not even in the crowded IGA, lots of people that by their demographic profile you would expect to be unvaccinated.  They were already having restaurant staffing issues by then.  Time to find a different beach next time we travel.

 

1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Port O'Connor is pretty similiar - local joints are shorthanded atm but none of the locals give a shit about COVID. Not even the cashiers in speedy stop that see EVERYONE in POC

We're all at a breaking point where we need to get through the pandemic. Everyone needs to get the antibodies via vaccines or infections, or die. Unfortunately 2 of those results clog up the hospitals and prevent people with other serious conditions from getting timely healthcare.

Background: I'm from a small Texas coastal town, maybe double the size of Port A or POC. For the kids that decided to stay there after high school/1-semester of college, 80% of them didn't have ambition to make more of themselves. It would be no surprise to me if they believe COVID is fake. And I'm can't even imagine the beliefs of the school dropouts. My class had a dropout rate of 20-25%.

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15 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Port O'Connor is pretty similiar - local joints are shorthanded atm but none of the locals give a shit about COVID. Not even the cashiers in speedy stop that see EVERYONE in POC

In May or June of last year, I remember calling a business in POC/Seadrift to see if they were open. He didn't understand the question at first then he says...

"what, that china flu? ain't nobody down here worried about that shit."

I lulzed. 

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Talked to a dad at school drop off this morning. His brother and 3 friends went to the last Austin FC home game and all 4 tested positive a week later.  Can't confirm that was were they got it by that was the only time the four of them were together recently.

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37 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

In May or June of last year, I remember calling a business in POC/Seadrift to see if they were open. He didn't understand the question at first then he says...

"what, that china flu? ain't nobody down here worried about that shit."

I lulzed. 

The old lady at Clark’s was treating it like Ebola.  She’d just yell at you thru the glass door to the office.  I was rather proud of her.  That was late July of ‘20.  

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We've been holding at #11, despite our increase in cases.  Missouri breaks up the conference unity by peaking at 45 per 100,00 and now falling to the fourth row.  (They S'posed to be SEC.gif) Maybe they really are off to the Big 10.

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Sigh, everything is going the wrong direction which isn't surprising, but frustrating.  New cases at 847 (+188 from yesterday, +314 from last week), hospitalizations at 618 (+10 from yesterday), ICU admits 217 (+4 from yesterday), vents at 145 (+8 from yesterday).  All of this and schools really haven't contributed to the spread yet.

 

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4 Texas school districts are already closed.  Rural ones also that didn't get the brunt of COVID the first go around.

 

Virus outbreaks temporarily close 4 Texas school districts

HOUSTON (AP) — As the new school year begins for Texas students and mask mandates are debated in various state courts, at least four school districts have already closed campuses due to COVID-19 outbreaks.

The shutdowns are taking place as more school districts and communities continued this week to defy Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates and require students and residents to wear face coverings. Tuesday afternoon, Abbott’s office announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. Abbott, who is vaccinated, was experiencing no symptoms.

The school district in Gorman, located about 70 miles (112.65 kilometers) east of Abilene, had been set to begin the new school year on Wednesday but is now delaying that by a week “due to positive COVID cases within the school community of both faculty and students,” Superintendent Mike Winter said in a statement.

“This decision was not made lightly or quickly, and it was made with the best interest of all students, staff, and parents’ safety in mind,” Winter said.

 

In East Texas, the Bloomburg school district announced it was shut down this week “due to the number of staff members out with COVID.” Classes had started on Aug. 9.

About 60 miles (96.56 kilometers) south of Bloomburg, the Waskom school district’s elementary campus was closed due to the “number of staff members out with COVID,” said Superintendent Rae Ann Patty. Classes in Waskom had started Aug. 11.

These school districts join the Iraan-Sheffield Independent School District in West Texas, which on Monday announced it would close schools for two weeks so students and staff could quarantine due to COVID-19. Classes had started on Aug. 10.

Mask wearing was optional in these four school districts. At least 21 other Texas school districts, including some of the state’s biggest, have instituted mask mandates, which are in violation of Abbott’s executive order banning such measures.

The debate over mandatory mask wearing in Texas school districts continued being litigated in various courts around the state. The issue was expected to ultimately be decided by the Texas Supreme Court, which has already halted mask mandates in two of the state’s largest counties. One of these two counties, Dallas, has brushed aside the high court’s orde r while another, Bexar, on Monday won a temporary injunction against Abbott’s order.

The push by some school districts and counties for mask mandates comes as hospitals across the state continue to be flooded with COVID-19 patients.

In the 25-county region around Houston, 629 COVID patients are waiting for beds but can’t get admitted to a hospital, Dr. David Persse, who is health authority for the Houston Health Department and EMS medical director, said Tuesday. An additional 112 patients are waiting for ICU beds, he said.

On Tuesday, state health officials reported 12,227 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas, the first time the state had surpassed 12,000 since Jan. 27. Since June 27, when hospitalizations had been at their lowest point in more than a year, they have jumped by 756%. State health officials reported 24,422 new and probable cases on Tuesday.

In the Eanes school district in Austin, which is requiring masks, a parent “physically assaulted” one teacher by ripping a mask off her face while another teacher was yelled at by other parents because they couldn’t understand what the teacher was saying while she wore a mask, Superintendent Tom Leonard said in a statement. The first day of classes in the Eanes district was not until Wednesday.

“This type of behavior will not be tolerated in Eanes ISD. Our staff are on the front lines of this pandemic; let’s give them some space and grace. Please, I am asking everyone to be kind...do not fight mask wars in our schools,” Leonard said.

On Monday, the Round Rock and West Oso school districts became the latest to defy Abbott and require students and staff to wear masks.

The San Antonio school district, which also has a mask mandate, on Monday announced it was requiring all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 15.

In West Texas, El Paso County officials announced that starting Wednesday they would require masks be worn inside all indoor facilities, including schools.

In Harris County, where Houston is located, officials on Tuesday announced $100 gift cards for anyone getting a vaccine as part of their efforts to boost vaccination rates.

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Delta is going to blow up cases in other states soon as well.  It is that contagious.  Compare Texas and Hawaii (and Hawaii has mask mandates, high mask compliance and one of the highest vaccine rates).  Here is hoping there are enough of the vulnerable that are vaccinated so deaths are less/lower CFR.

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Huge day in Travis County today with 847 cases (vs 533 last week Wednesday)

We are also one below the record for hospitalizations with 618 currently. Just a shitshow. Big spike in the younger ages.

Age Bracket <1 1 to 9 10 to 19 20 to 29 30 to 39 40 to 49 50 to 59 60 to 69 70 to 79 >80 Total
Cases 8/17 vs 8/16 13 72 108 203 186 127 67 45 21 5 847
% of Daily Change 1.53% 8.50% 12.75% 23.97% 21.96% 14.99% 7.91% 5.31% 2.48% 0.59%  
% of Total Cases 0.67% 4.64% 10.77% 25.98% 20.87% 14.79% 10.89% 6.37% 3.08% 1.94%  
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8 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Huge day in Travis County today with 847 cases (vs 533 last week Wednesday)

Was just coming to post this. Yeah, it’s bad news territory right now. We are operating close to the January peak but it’s unclear whether this will turn in the right direction soon or keep creeping upward. In other words, the third wave could very well crest higher than the second did. 

Mask up, motherfuckers.

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48 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Delta is going to blow up cases in other states soon as well.  It is that contagious.  Compare Texas and Hawaii (and Hawaii has mask mandates, high mask compliance and one of the highest vaccine rates).  Here is hoping there are enough of the vulnerable that are vaccinated so deaths are less/lower CFR.

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Hawaii got caught with its pants down.  They eased a bunch of restrictions and just put most but not all of them back in place on the 11th.  Just can't let your guard down.

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8 minutes ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Hawaii got caught with its pants down.  They eased a bunch of restrictions and just put most but not all of them back in place on the 11th.  Just can't let your guard down.

The sad truth is, this motherfucker don’t care about restrictions.   

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23 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

Was just coming to post this. Yeah, it’s bad news territory right now. We are operating close to the January peak but it’s unclear whether this will turn in the right direction soon or keep creeping upward. In other words, the third wave could very well crest higher than the second did. 

Mask up, motherfuckers.

When do UT students return to Austin ??

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You have to think that school will provide plenty of new cases to blow this up even higher. But then you also have to wonder about the likelihood of testing to be performed when it should be, vs how many people/parents will try to hide or ignore symptoms in an effort to avoid a mandatory quarantine period. 

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10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You have to think that school will provide plenty of new cases to blow this up even higher. But then you also have to wonder about the likelihood of testing to be performed when it should be, vs how many people/parents will try to hide or ignore symptoms in an effort to avoid a mandatory quarantine period. 

I think there’s a lot in the latter category. I can see a parent finding out they or their kid was near someone over the weekend who tested positive, but as long as the kid isn’t showing any symptoms they won’t test for fear of an asymptotic positive leading to quarantine/remote learning/staying at home with the kid.

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9 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I think there’s a lot in the latter category. I can see a parent finding out they or their kid was near someone over the weekend who tested positive, but as long as the kid isn’t showing any symptoms they won’t test for fear of an asymptotic positive leading to quarantine/remote learning/staying at home with the kid.

in LISD even for known close contact exposures quarantining is optional.  I guarantee you there are parents that are not testing and I also guarantee parents are sending kids to school who are known positive.

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7 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

in LISD even for known close contact exposures quarantining is optional.  I guarantee you there are parents that are not testing and I also guarantee parents are sending kids to school who are known positive.

Shit, in the "before times" parents gave kids Tylenol to drop their fever and sent them on to school. A close friend of mine was a middle school principle (now a highschool principle, woo!), and the stories he could tell...

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My daughter (no pics) is living with us now that she has graduated college for the next couple of weeks until her new apartment opens up. She works at a place that specializes in special needs kids care/therapy and one of the kids she was working with today became visibly sick and when they did a temp check was running a fever. They called parents and sent kid home, apparently parents knew kid had fever but gave kid tylenol to suppress and still sent them in. So now my daughter is worried she was exposed etc etc. Luckily she is in an area of house that can be cordoned off but fuck those parents.

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1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

Delta is going to blow up cases in other states soon as well.  It is that contagious.  Compare Texas and Hawaii (and Hawaii has mask mandates, high mask compliance and one of the highest vaccine rates).  Here is hoping there are enough of the vulnerable that are vaccinated so deaths are less/lower CFR.

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1 hour ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

LISD up to 114 cases for this week.  +16 so far today.

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1 hour ago, BrazilHorn said:

Huge day in Travis County today with 847 cases (vs 533 last week Wednesday)

We are also one below the record for hospitalizations with 618 currently. Just a shitshow. Big spike in the younger ages.

Age Bracket <1 1 to 9 10 to 19 20 to 29 30 to 39 40 to 49 50 to 59 60 to 69 70 to 79 >80 Total
Cases 8/17 vs 8/16 13 72 108 203 186 127 67 45 21 5 847
% of Daily Change 1.53% 8.50% 12.75% 23.97% 21.96% 14.99% 7.91% 5.31% 2.48% 0.59%  
% of Total Cases 0.67% 4.64% 10.77% 25.98% 20.87% 14.79% 10.89% 6.37% 3.08% 1.94%  

 

1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

Was just coming to post this. Yeah, it’s bad news territory right now. We are operating close to the January peak but it’s unclear whether this will turn in the right direction soon or keep creeping upward. In other words, the third wave could very well crest higher than the second did. 

Mask up, motherfuckers.

So you're saying we didn't peak last Wednesday?  I was told we would peak by last Wednesday.

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56 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

When do UT students return to Austin ??

First day of classes is 25 August.  I worked from our campus office on Monday and it was still pretty sparse around campus.  Going back 1 or 2 more times before that.  This will be the weekend that everything gets humming back to full steam.  Most indications from various CSU's say vaccination rates, as voluntarily reported by faculty and staff is 80%+ and increasing.  Student body is supposedly approaching that number but we won't know until they're all already here and self-reporting.  But the problem is even a 20% un-vaxx number plus lots and lots of unvacc'd visitors each day on our small city, that means there's still means 15-20k unvacc'd people in an area no bigger than a mid-sized farm.  Nevermind when we start getting to large events like football games.  I'm staying the fuck away for the next month or so, going back to remote office hours/lectures.  No football for me either.  Coach will miss me dearly obviously.  

I will say this though about earlier this week, just to end another bummer post on a high note---Monday was some kinda rush day on/near campus.  The theme for all grades was tennis skirts.  I couldn't tell you how many were masked/unmasked butt the underbutt was 95% 

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9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

First day of classes is 25 August.  I worked from our campus office on Monday and it was still pretty sparse around campus.  Going back 1 or 2 more times before that.  This will be the weekend that everything gets humming back to full steam.  Most indications from various CSU's say vaccination rates, as voluntarily reported by faculty and staff is 80%+ and increasing.  Student body is supposedly approaching that number but we won't know until they're all already here and self-reporting.  But the problem is even a 20% un-vaxx number plus lots and lots of unvacc'd visitors each day on our small city, that means there's still means 15-20k unvacc'd people in an area no bigger than a mid-sized farm.  Nevermind when we start getting to large events like football games.  I'm staying the fuck away for the next month or so, going back to remote office hours/lectures.  No football for me either.  Coach will miss me dearly obviously.  

I will say this though about earlier this week, just to end another bummer post on a high note---Monday was some kinda rush day on/near campus.  The theme for all grades was tennis skirts.  I couldn't tell you how many were masked/unmasked butt the underbutt was 95% 

Yeah, I have season tickets and am watching the case rate really closely.  I'm probably going to watch the first game on TV.

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I mean some of these young ladies, were wearing what appeared to be nothing more than the elastic bands of a KN95 mask under these tennis skirts.  'Twas glorious.  

anyway, yes...we should have more masking on campus when classes begin.  

I was using Rowling Hall office, and then moved over to Patton Hall and just used a seminar room because the summer MBA folks were filling up Rowling Hall in the last few weeks.  You get used to just thinking everything on campus as having wide hallways, good ventilation, and elbow room in general.  Then you walk through a six-pack building or something up in the NE engineering buildings and it's hallways 5' wide, 7.5' ceilings, crammed as shit, with the same dank ass smell as undergrad suggesting maybe the ventilation hasn't been updated in a couple generations.  Obviously you can get Covid anywhere, but some of those buildings just scream "Stay away until Columbus Day!" 

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4 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I mean some of these young ladies, were wearing what appeared to be nothing more than the elastic bands of a KN95 mask under these tennis skirts.  'Twas glorious.  

anyway, yes...we should have more masking on campus when classes begin.  

I was using Rowling Hall office, and then moved over to Patton Hall and just used a seminar room because the summer MBA folks were filling up Rowling Hall in the last few weeks.  You get used to just thinking everything on campus as having wide hallways, good ventilation, and elbow room in general.  Then you walk through a six-pack building or something up in the NE engineering buildings and it's hallways 5' wide, 7.5' ceilings, crammed as shit, with the same dank ass smell as undergrad suggesting maybe the ventilation hasn't been updated in a couple generations.  Obviously you can get Covid anywhere, but some of those buildings just scream "Stay away until Columbus Day!" 

Good riddance to ENS.  That fucking building smelled like shit.

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1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

The sad truth is, this motherfucker don’t care about restrictions.   

Yup.  I think all the bitching about masks is stupid.  But I also don't think they are really going to make any difference in the school setting or any other crowded place with Delta.

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33 minutes ago, Lobo said:

First day of classes is 25 August.  I worked from our campus office on Monday and it was still pretty sparse around campus.  Going back 1 or 2 more times before that.  This will be the weekend that everything gets humming back to full steam.  Most indications from various CSU's say vaccination rates, as voluntarily reported by faculty and staff is 80%+ and increasing.  Student body is supposedly approaching that number but we won't know until they're all already here and self-reporting.  But the problem is even a 20% un-vaxx number plus lots and lots of unvacc'd visitors each day on our small city, that means there's still means 15-20k unvacc'd people in an area no bigger than a mid-sized farm.  Nevermind when we start getting to large events like football games.  I'm staying the fuck away for the next month or so, going back to remote office hours/lectures.  No football for me either.  Coach will miss me dearly obviously.  

I will say this though about earlier this week, just to end another bummer post on a high note---Monday was some kinda rush day on/near campus.  The theme for all grades was tennis skirts.  I couldn't tell you how many were masked/unmasked butt the underbutt was 95% 

Sorority rush is this week.  

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