Conavirus......

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Originally Posted by frugal-one

Don’t you work from home?

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Even if that was the case, how would it be relevant?

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Originally Posted by frugal-one

Don’t you work from home?

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Originally Posted by LDAHL

Even if that was the case, how would it be relevant?

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With an extremely infectious pandemic raging it would be at best tone deaf for someone who works from home to be speaking out against people who don’t have that luxury who don’t want to put themselves and their families at risk.

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Originally Posted by Tradd

The Chicago teachers are a bunch of entitled idiots. They think they can choose not to work? Then they should get fired. Health care professionals and grocery store workers don’t get to pick and choose, among many others.

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My partner is an elementary school teacher, in their 50s. They are doing in-person teaching. Their district is doing very low levels of somewhat-disorganized testing. The classroom setups are "reasonable" with airflow and distancing of desks, but it is near-impossible to keep 4th-graders from mingling in ways contrary to the guidelines. The teachers themselves are provided with several quick lateral-flow tests a week. My partner's classroom. has had several outbreaks requiring quarantining/isolation protocols. So far my partner has managed to avoid infection, and hasn't infected their own family, or mine. The school district is in one of the worst counties in the state for covid statistics.

My own school district has gone back to remote learning after the New Year, when our much-more-intensive covid testing program at the school district revealed a wildfire-like spread among the kids and families. My county has the best statistics in the state, and generally in the nation. We've still had outbreaks at the school during the first half of the school year, even with our precautions.

I think the problem is perhaps a bit more complex than "a bunch of entitled idiots".

The CTU is going about it the wrong way which is pissing off a lot of people.

Parents were notified of the first day with no school very late the night before. They could have filed a grievance and so parents would have had some notice. Apparently legally, the mayor can’t just say “we’re going remote.” Chicago has an appointed school board, not elected. Goes back decades. Mayor runs the schools.

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Originally Posted by jp1

With an extremely infectious pandemic raging it would be at best tone deaf for someone who works from home to be speaking out against people who don’t have that luxury who don’t want to put themselves and their families at risk.

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Do you need to have worn a badge to criticize the police?

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Originally Posted by bae

My partner is an elementary school teacher, in their 50s. They are doing in-person teaching. Their district is doing very low levels of somewhat-disorganized testing. The classroom setups are "reasonable" with airflow and distancing of desks, but it is near-impossible to keep 4th-graders from mingling in ways contrary to the guidelines. The teachers themselves are provided with several quick lateral-flow tests a week. My partner's classroom. has had several outbreaks requiring quarantining/isolation protocols. So far my partner has managed to avoid infection, and hasn't infected their own family, or mine. The school district is in one of the worst counties in the state for covid statistics.

My own school district has gone back to remote learning after the New Year, when our much-more-intensive covid testing program at the school district revealed a wildfire-like spread among the kids and families. My county has the best statistics in the state, and generally in the nation. We've still had outbreaks at the school during the first half of the school year, even with our precautions.

I think the problem is perhaps a bit more complex than "a bunch of entitled idiots".

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I think the “entitled idiots” comes from a union deciding on short notice that they can dictate the mode of learning. I think the Mayor is right not to pay them if they don’t show up.

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Originally Posted by happystuff

We get Covid status emails from the superintendent and the rates have been climbing. Last report was 8 staff and 22 positives, and they stopped sharing the "quarantine" numbers. With two night and two day custodians per school (middle and elementary), we currently are down one custodian per school. Apparently they were also down a lunch person yesterday and there was NO ONE in the cafeteria to hand out 8th grade lunches!!! Big mess, but a custodian saw the situation, used his walkie and THREE administrators showed up. Funny how it took 3 administrators to do the work of 1 regular lunch person. LOL.

Anyway, waiting to see if we go virtual here soon or not.

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Went into work last night (after posting the above) and was asked to come in early today as both the elementary and middle school were doing a "virtual learning" day. No students or teachers in the classrooms today.

DH may have COVID-19.

Yesterday morning he woke up after coughing in the night and he had a temperature of 100.2

As is our agreement, he went to Hermann to recover. He is not vaccinated and he doesn’t get to infect me unnecessarily if he has a case of it. He is reporting his temperature to me twice a day. Mornings and evenings. He has food in Hermann for several days. I will probably take him frozen meals in about three days so that he doesn’t go into restaurants and he has something varied to eat.

Now I’m sitting here waiting to see if I was infected. He was home briefly on Sunday night, he slept in a separate bedroom from me, and got up Monday morning. He hung around while we talked about his options, I made him lunch, and then he took off for Hermann. The highly infectious Omicron strain could’ve infected me in this brief time, so we shall see.


This morning when he called to give me his health report his temperature was down to 98°. That is a positive sign but only a small step forward.

Gosh this is a time where I would love to have a COVID-19 home test, but they are impossible to get. Funny I thought only Donald Trump was the one who kept tests out of the hands of The People and now I don’t know who to blame since we’re not allowed to place any blame at the feet of Democrats in the White House.

i ordered a COVID-19 home test on January 1, 4 of them. They are not cheap. But they won’t be here for weeks so No go.

Probably should be testing oxygen with a pulse oximeter.

To avoid restaurants just get food delivery. Door dash etc. are great. Grocery delivery also.