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

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I just started reading a book called "Devolution" by Max Brooks son of Seth Brooks and Anne Bancroft....its about Bigfoot.... awesome subject!!!!!
I don't understand the big mystery about BigFoot. He lives right down the road from here, just south of Baltimore. I know this because DD dated him, last summer. He has since gone back to the woods from whence he came ... and none too soon. He broke my couch!
 
Okay, on a more serious note, we're back to another "Covid Moment." My church is having its' first services again this Sunday. If it's nice, the services (two - @ 8 & 10) will be outside. If it rains, they will move inside - one in the church and the other in the Parish Hall. If we are outside, we bring our own chairs. If we're indoors, they can only allow 54 people inside. Everyone has to mask up for the entire service and there will be NO singing! There will be no Sunday School or Children's Church and no Coffee Hour.
Regardless of where we meet, everyone has to sign in, so we can keep track of who was exposed if someone gets sick. I thought I was ready for this, but just the thought is breaking me out in hives. Will it never end? :oops:
 
I don't understand the big mystery about BigFoot. He lives right down the road from here, just south of Baltimore. I know this because DD dated him, last summer. He has since gone back to the woods from whence he came ... and none too soon. He broke my couch!
"Back to the woods" WRONG! He moved to California, and married my daughter! I'm terrible:oops:
 
Well, thanks. I need to hear that sometimes. With schools closed and plans for the fall leaning towards distance learning (yuck), I've been getting lots of hate. I didn't ask for the pandemic. I didn't want the school to close. I didn't want any of it. I'm just coping, like everyone else.

For your daughter: I don't recommend teaching. The hours are ridiculous, the pay is lousy for the amount of education that's required, and it isn't a very well-respected profession. But it is fun sometimes, the kids are great, and it is rewarding (sometimes)

I find it really sad that as a committed teacher, you wouldn't recommend teaching as a career to younger people. At the risk of becoming too political (sorry) I find it even more sad that too many communities think nothing of approving mega-funding to buy expensive vehicles and equipment to turn their police forces into militarily-equipped warriors, but then cry poverty when the teachers in their community raise concerns about having to buy paper and pens and lunches out of their own personal meager pay to educate their students.

Education is a profession that deserves a whole lot more respect than teachers have gotten during the past few decades.

Do you think, if community values got more sensible and education budgets were more equally funded according to what's needed, that you would change your mind and maybe recommend teaching as a career to younger people?
 
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