davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Aug 31, 2020 10:10:31 GMT -8
It is rare here on any of our central California Pacific Ocean shores to have days with actual calm or near calm air. There is almost always an onshore breeze because the enormous ocean temperatures are 50F to 60F degrees most all year that provides dense cool marine air that is always heavier than what is just inland so undercuts that air flowing onshore. The many news photos over the last few months showing dense beach activity here out on the coast have not resulted in any noticeable increase in cases as has been noted. However many such people will flood a community's stores and businesses just as they always do and of course many doing so will not do so safely. In some outdoor enthusiast communities like herein, people have discussed being prepared and self sufficient going outside their local areas however those days are long past and there are vastly more in the general population that never were exposed to such considerate planning discussions.
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jazzmom
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Post by jazzmom on Aug 31, 2020 10:56:05 GMT -8
I'm hearing numbers in the 30,000 range for University of Michigan students who have arrived in our town. Classes started today. While they may not be taking all of their classes in person, the reality for our town is that they are all physically here. It's an understatement to say that we're all "concerned".
When we went to pick up a take-out dinner order last week at one of the popular student restaurants downtown, it was packed. We realized too late that we probably should have chosen a different place. As we were getting our order, there was a group of young women excitedly greeting each other, unmasked, hugging and laughing, asking for a table for eight... doesn't bode well.
Big 10 did "postpone" its football season (careful to say "postpone" as opposed to cancel) so we at least dodged that bullet. The earlier plan was to play the games with only the student body in attendance spread out over the entire stadium. The "Big House" normally houses 110,000 attendees... No word yet on basketball, which may be a bigger deal, as it's indoors in a what is a small arena by today's standards.
My son's college is strictly online only this fall and he's staying home. The quality of education will undoubtedly suffer but I admit I'm relieved.
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Post by BigLoad on Aug 31, 2020 11:35:19 GMT -8
My son's college is strictly online only this fall and he's staying home. We had a similar experience yesterday when we went for a walk in what should have been the empty streets around a nearby small private college. I didn't realize they were given exemption by the Governor to begin on-campus classes prior to NJ's formal Stage 3 reopening. Therefore, we encountered moving-in day, which was quite a scene. Fortunately, most of the students we saw were acting responsibly, unlike their counterparts elsewhere.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Aug 31, 2020 11:43:43 GMT -8
By the way, it's still early days for scaled-up contact tracing in NJ, but the results so far are disappointing. Effective compliance was in the 33-50% range the last few times I looked. Failure to comply takes a lot of different forms: refusing to take phone calls, refusing to provide information about contacts, providing falsified information about contacts, and also for the contacts to refuse calls, refuse to corroborate contact if they answer, or to falsify their responses as well.
Given the amount of social contact occurring among younger people, this doesn't bode well for the capability to traces contacts as a viable solution to the problem of decreasing physical distancing.
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rebeccad
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Post by rebeccad on Aug 31, 2020 13:39:52 GMT -8
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Post by hikingtiger on Sept 1, 2020 12:13:49 GMT -8
I'm thinking that it has to do with those mingling with untested locals as all students (which includes my eldest) had to test negative before being allowed on campus. Not that he's on campus much...two classes only meet on campus one day per week, one is always on campus, and the others are all virtual. Makes no sense to me, but then again, a lot of what goes on over there doesn't. But that's a whole 'nother story. #RivalSchool
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sarbar
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Post by sarbar on Sept 1, 2020 12:22:37 GMT -8
You have 21 days left of summer. Enjoy it.
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walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 3, 2020 9:48:52 GMT -8
Now up to 400 cases (about 10% of the student population). Big house parties two weekends ago appear to be the culprit.
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Post by swmtnbackpacker on Sept 3, 2020 12:01:41 GMT -8
You have 21 days left of summer. Enjoy it. Not in the Southwest. One Thanksgiving was 93°F and sunny. Bikini and Speedo weather for cutting the turkey.
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reuben
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Post by reuben on Sept 3, 2020 13:20:02 GMT -8
Speedo weather for cutting the turkey. That's just wrong.
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BigLoad
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Post by BigLoad on Sept 3, 2020 13:30:52 GMT -8
As of last week, this was generally the third hottest summer on record in the greater NY area. There's not a whole of enjoying going on for me, since my area is a recreational hotspot and the trails and lakes are jam-packed at all times. Consequently, our county has gone from having the lowest spreading factor in the state to the highest over the last month.
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gabby
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Post by gabby on Sept 3, 2020 13:51:28 GMT -8
Speedo weather for cutting the turkey. That's just wrong. The real weather down here arrives in February. We should shift the Holidays appropriately.
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echo
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Post by echo on Sept 3, 2020 20:31:51 GMT -8
First day of first grade, Daisy dressing up to sit on the couch and chat with her new classmates via zoom. Tears three times in half an hour over frustration with tech, and she rarely ever cries but this school return is a huge disappointment
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gabby
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Post by gabby on Sept 3, 2020 21:07:51 GMT -8
Great pictures!!! Thanks for sharing something very personal.
This stuff is really tough, but we'll get through it. Maybe it'll even turn out to be a good thing. There will come a day, probably sooner than we think (though I'm sure it won't be soon enough for most of us), when we'll get to do the things we always did before - but we'll appreciate the simple fact of doing it more than ever.
P.S.: Your signature line is entirely apropos to this situation - it would be wonderful if all of us could realize it fully. But ... we all move in our own way and at our own speed ... I commonly bring up the rear of just about any procession anywhere!
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walkswithblackflies
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Sept 4, 2020 3:58:41 GMT -8
Thanks Colgate University... Active COVID cases. One of these things is not like the other:
And SUNY-Oneonta just sent all their students home because, within 2 weeks, about 10% of the students tested positive, due to 3 superspreader events (parties). Meanwhile, Syracuse University is doing everything it can to keep campus open. They detected coronavirus in wastewater from a dorm, so now that dorm is quanantined, and the University will be testing each person in the dorm.
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