Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[feather13]

it's a good time to not be 100% responsible for planning AND implementing. hope he loves it! Male teachers for younger kids are so important. It was always a female workplace, but boys need role models

I agree. My daughters didn't have male teachers until high school. I think boys need nurturing professions/elementary school teacher role models and girls need role models that aren't always in nurturing/teaching professions.

 

[MROO]

I agree. My daughters didn't have male teachers until high school. I think boys need nurturing professions/elementary school teacher role models and girls need role models that aren't always in nurturing/teaching professions.

At one of our local elementary schools, the Pre-Kindergarten is a 6'4' man. It's AWESOME to watch him interact with those little peanuts - and they absolutely ADORE him!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

no one is enforcing rules?

I don't know if other states have this, but VA established a website where people (consumers) can report businesses that are not following rules. I don't think anything has happened to them (businesses) yet but thousands have been reported.
As for people....hardly anyone here takes the guidelines seriously unless mandated like the local schools or gov buildings. Sometime in late July, I think it was, there were 2 very large neighborhood parties, bouncy houses and all... plus all the usual 4th of July stuff. One would not have known it was anything other than a typical summer here.

SMH...now cases are going through the roof and nearly all the districts had to switch to distance learning after the hybrid modes led to outbreaks through the schools.

At one of our local elementary schools, the Pre-Kindergarten is a 6'4' man. It's AWESOME to watch him interact with those little peanuts - and they absolutely ADORE him!

Kiddo had a 5th grade teacher like that. Big burly guy who was an absolute teddy bear! One of our most favorite teachers, ever, and one of the best role models for the kids. His wife was a principal at a junior high and was equally as wonderful.

 

[MROO]

My nephew is getting married in October. After his fiance's bridal shower, last weekend, i got calls from at least three family members asking if I was okay, because DD and I sat off to the side and didn't socialize much. My response was, "It was a GREAT party! But there wasn't a single soul wearing a mask!" They had to go back through the photos to verify it ... then they all apologized. I don't think that'll happen again, at least not at a family get-together!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I will say my immediate neighborhood at least has been broadly compliant to my eyes. Gatherings neighbors have had have been tiny (less than 5 people) and outdoors. The grocery on the corner was fully masked for the first time ever when I went in and there was hand sanitizer and masks at the door. 15 minute drive in any direction, or visit certain stores, and it gets sketchy. Home Depot and TSC are extra bad.

 

[FortCluck]

I don't know if other states have this, but VA established a website where people (consumers) can report businesses that are not following rules. I don't think anything has happened to them (businesses) yet but thousands have been reported.
As for people....hardly anyone here takes the guidelines seriously unless mandated like the local schools or gov buildings. Sometime in late July, I think it was, there were 2 very large neighborhood parties, bouncy houses and all... plus all the usual 4th of July stuff. One would not have known it was anything other than a typical summer here.

SMH...now cases are going through the roof and nearly all the districts had to switch to distance learning after the hybrid modes led to outbreaks through the schools.


Kiddo had a 5th grade teacher like that. Big burly guy who was an absolute teddy bear! One of our most favorite teachers, ever, and one of the best role models for the kids. His wife was a principal at a junior high and was equally as wonderful.

I’m glad my kids don’t go to school in some of the local counties... A close county to us has hybrid. I feel like it’s an incredibly ignorant idea. My friends granddaughter is in that county too and a few friends kids.

 

[MROO]

I’m glad my kids don’t go to school in some of the local counties... A close county to us has hybrid. I feel like it’s an incredibly ignorant idea. My friends granddaughter is in that county too and a few friends kids.

Ours is hybrid, too. I am actually grateful that DD graduated this year. It was tough on her, but at least I know she got a good education up til the last month. My neighbor is a working single Mom with seven kids - yup ... SEVEN ... all school aged. She has NO idea how she will handle school for them. She's hoping her daycare will step up and do some of it there, but who knows? They're all Pre-K and under trained with some after-school briefing thrown in ... but school aged kids are an entirely different animal!

 

[FortCluck]

Ours is hybrid, too. I am actually grateful that DD graduated this year. It was tough on her, but at least I know she got a good education up til the last month. My neighbor is a working single Mom with seven kids - yup ... SEVEN ... all school aged. She has NO idea how she will handle school for them. She's hoping her daycare will step up and do some of it there, but who knows? They're all Pre-K and under trained with some after-school briefing thrown in ... but school aged kids are an entirely different animal!

I feel like kids should be more responsible. They rely too much on their parents and teachers to do everything for them. When I was in school homework and studying was my job (that’s the ONLY job a kid has). I didn’t rely on my parents to tell me to do my homework or study (kids now are like this). I’d come home from school and instantly get into my homework so I could be done before basketball practice at 5. Homework came before sports. School came before sports because without good grades my butt would be getting splinters on the bench (we had to have A’s and B’s and an occasional C to be a starter).

I just feel like education is taking a backseat in the US. Other countries are excelling at education while we aren’t. That’s why most doctors come from other countries because they focus on education for the first 18 years of their lives. They don’t have parents forcing them to do sports and other things. The US focuses of everything, but education and it shows. They BARELY fund schools and have teachers foot the bill... other places do not do this.

I’m hopping someday our education changes and we stop focusing on sports because sports are great if you make it big... but without education when you retire, you’re nothing. Those people usually lose everything money and all because they were drafted before they finished their college degree.

Also US schools focus on testing our government uses to get funding... better test scores mean more money. I barely think my kids learn anything that’s not on the tests they do in the fall, it sickens me. I want them to have a good education, but that’s rare these days.

 

[FortCluck]

Ours is hybrid, too. I am actually grateful that DD graduated this year. It was tough on her, but at least I know she got a good education up til the last month. My neighbor is a working single Mom with seven kids - yup ... SEVEN ... all school aged. She has NO idea how she will handle school for them. She's hoping her daycare will step up and do some of it there, but who knows? They're all Pre-K and under trained with some after-school briefing thrown in ... but school aged kids are an entirely different animal!

As for your neighbor... maybe she can find a friend to step in or a relative or someone. Maybe ask a local church to help out, that’s what the church is for to help the community.

I believe many families are in this situation because there aren’t many stay at home parents... cost of living is a lot in this country.

This goes back to my way of living... go back to when we relied less on everyone else and rely more on ourselves. Food especially... the cost of food is insane, but if we started providing our own, we could save so much a month.

Think we save about $400 a month on meat and that’s subtracting feed costs and such. Quail are probably the best investment we have made... chickens not so much.

 

[FortCluck]

I reseeded my gardens because I’m still trying to minimize going to the grocery store.

Honestly I don’t like being in public at all.

When I went to the library the other day, everyone was wearing masks. They had one way traffic into the building and out of the building. Books are quarantined for 14 days before being loaned out again. The bag your books you reserve and you pick them up on the table in the front. The computer keyboards and noises were covered in plastic and sprayed after use. I’m sure our library is going above and beyond what others are.

I got 13 books I plan to read every single day. I’m still trying to reach 100+ books for the year. I’m at about 75.