andi9899
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Post by andi9899 on Sept 2, 2021 9:21:25 GMT -5
My husband has tested positive for Covid & now has a slight cough & chest congestion. My son started getting the symptoms of a head cold yesterday. Have him scheduled to be tested tomorrow. I'm eating Xanax to avoid losing my mind from anxiety. I had a massive personal pity party yesterday because it was my birthday, but today it's back to putting on the big girl panties & become a functional bucket of anxiety & insanity with a giant helping of fear and a side of hand sanitizer. All served up in masks inside my own house & everyone in rubber gloves. And cans of Lysol every 10 feet. Is everyone doing ok now?
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Sept 2, 2021 9:45:40 GMT -5
I saw in our local paper yesterday the schools here have some kind of three stage plan to put into effect depending on how many cases they have - stage 1 is social distancing, stage 2 involves kids attending every other day depending on their last name, the third stage was distance learning. Wednesday’s no one comes in, and they clean the whole school. A kid tests positive and all his classmates have to stay home 10 days. Masks suggested but not required. What a nightmare for kids and parents and teachers. Distance learning would be better, but ours is a poor country, don’t know if all the kids have a device or internet- although you can sit outside the library and use their free WiFi, if your car has AC, because it’s in the 90s. I don’t know if these kids will be able to catch back up to their grade levels. Last year DS5 had hybrid in person (2 consecutive days in school based on name, no school on Wednesday for cleaning). Lots of issues with asynchronous remote because of lack/slow internet, and chaotic platform options. He did poorly even with both of us trying to keep on top of his stuff (DH: HS ENG teacher, me Math tutor in college). Just learned several of his friends who were fully remote last year were held back & are repeating that year! This year? Most districts are full speed ahead to 5 days in person, no option for remote. They are just NOT doing remote, for anyone. There was a local news story about a mother who is immunocompromised asking for remote for her K daughter. School refused, because student was not at risk. Didn't matter that her mother would be placed at risk by the child attending school. Homeschooling - that's your option, take it or leave it, and you are on your own with that here. Bright spot is new governor immediately made masks mandatory for everyone in schools. Our superintendent has made it sound like it's temporary, and as things change so will the rules... . But we received a letter from the school that they will no longer be sending out mailed info - everything will be thru the website (which is poor) going forward - due to the risks of transmission. What?! How does that make any sense? I am super disappointed that schools did not incorporate any kind of remote learning. It would encourage people who have had exposure to quarantine, and help kids who get Covid keep up while they wait it out. My neighbor was home for 7 consecutive school days because she showed symptoms, even though she had two negative tests. This happened shortly after we had a huge windstorm and so many people were having allergy-type reactions. (Including my family - even the one who never has allergies.) That girl missed a week and a half of school for no reason, and had plenty of energy, but couldn't access her teacher's lectures. She just got emails with the homework assignments. Such a waste of an opportunity to use our collective learning about new technologies. I understand they want to encourage in person learning, and reduce the number of kids falling through the loopholes that can keep them out of school - but, there has to be some kind of middle ground that tries to minimize the bad while maximizing the good.
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NomoreDramaQ1015
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Sept 2, 2021 10:22:54 GMT -5
Our school system has remote learning but to get around Reynolds yanking their funding it has to be through a 3 party contract and YOU pay for it this year. They will not have free remote learning through the school system itself.
I get it the school is damned if it does and damned if it don't. My school system isn't exactly affluent so they can't afford to have Reynolds yank state funding. This was the best work around they could come up with.
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Post by daisylu on Sept 2, 2021 14:45:24 GMT -5
And yet this is still happening in Georgia: As Georgia faces a surge of covid-19 cases, state health-care workers recently had to shut down and vacate a mobile vaccination clinic after being threatened by a swarm of protesters. Others are receiving harassing emails, and some are seeing their social media accounts flooded with false information about vaccines.
The state's top health official detailed the examples of increasing hostility toward health-care workers during a Monday briefing. Speaking alongside Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, she pleaded for civility toward those working "tirelessly to keep people alive." link
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Post by dondub on Sept 2, 2021 15:13:29 GMT -5
And yet this is still happening in Georgia: As Georgia faces a surge of covid-19 cases, state health-care workers recently had to shut down and vacate a mobile vaccination clinic after being threatened by a swarm of protesters. Others are receiving harassing emails, and some are seeing their social media accounts flooded with false information about vaccines.
The state's top health official detailed the examples of increasing hostility toward health-care workers during a Monday briefing. Speaking alongside Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, she pleaded for civility toward those working "tirelessly to keep people alive." linkGee Zuzz!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2021 14:47:36 GMT -5
And...new cases reported today? 9119. Is it any wonder GA is running out of hospital beds?
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