This cartoon echoes the feelings of many.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
08/16/2020 at 08:50 • Filed to: None

But there’s doggo.

DISCUSSION (34)

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 09:48

tHIS Is wHaT Tyrrany LooKs lIke!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
08/16/2020 at 09:49

I could take that a couple of different ways.

Spanfeller is a twat > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 10:05

You’d be surprised about the amount of places I can go in, and the amount of things I could do even if I’m positive. I still pass temperature tests, and I’m not visually sick. If I didn’t “believe” in the disease, or if I had pressures making me pretend I didn’t have it (like a boss eager to fire me or a work dependant health insurance ) I could be a super-spreader. Literally...

Our treasury secretary said we need to learn how to operate our economy and have precautions for the virus... But truth is that I took pretty much every precaution in the book so that I could go to work and yet... Well.

My workplace had more precautions than the hospital I visited to have my test taken, and yet...

I don’t know the epidemiologic curve in America... But I swear that having in-school class sounds like a pointlessly reckless thing to do. Maybe America hates poor people and this is some sort of way to filter them out (here those who are dying are minorities, the poor, and those in rural communities) but... Shit, for some this might be a death sentence and not just chilling at home for 2 weeks like it has been for me.

Not wanting to tempt fate or anything... But one really lives this through the lense of their privilege...

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 10:10

Good thing there aren’t any adults at the schools who’d be at risk of getting seriously sick.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spanfeller is a twat
08/16/2020 at 10:16

So are you COVID-positive right now? I think you have a considerate view of things and ultimately, the entire debate is about consideration , isn’t it?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 10:23

The greater concern, seems to me, is kids catching the virus, feeling perfectly fine, and taking it home and giving the virus to Abuela.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 12:22

That’s concerning too, we’re going to have another wave of cases thanks to reopening schools. We’re guaranteed to have to keep dealing with thisat current levels or worse through the end of the year at this rate.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 12:28

Our son is going into 6th grade, We’re signed up for online school. No one is happy about it, the boy is very disappointed, but were gonna risk it.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 12:58

I am just finishing up my Zoom studio in the shed. I’ll post about it when it’s complete. I think it’s very likely I’ll be in the shed until January, earliest, and 8+/10 the entire year. And if I play my cards a certain way, 4+/10 I could spend the remainder of my career there.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
08/16/2020 at 12:59

Risk getting less out of school because online, you mean?

404 - User No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 13:07

I was actually thinking at some point, home builders will actually think about adding this as a selling feature... a decontamination chamber built into the entrances.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > 404 - User No Longer Available
08/16/2020 at 13:10

Yes, but can you select Unlimited Ammunition ?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 13:39

I actually meant to type “we’re not gonna risk it”

But yeah that too. Online school has its own pitfalls that’s for sure.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/16/2020 at 13:54

If my school goes to virtual instruction only, the teachers have to come up to campus to do their virtual lessons.

fintail > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 14:11

I wonder if I’ll ever get to go to Canada again, not to mention Europe.

WRXforScience > fintail
08/16/2020 at 15:29

Hopefully they don’t decide to just make the ban on Americans permanent after they realize how much nicer it is without us.

fintail > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 15:33

Nobody would blame them. This is American exceptionalism in action.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 20:48

I think their tourist industry would differ.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
08/16/2020 at 20:51

A teacher friend was going on how half the students are home ther other half spread out in asigned seating and are going to be at their desk all day long. Shes gone on a couple rants, that all these parents who think the kids have to socialize, school will not be ‘ normal”

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > WRXforScience
08/16/2020 at 20:56

My friends wife is a nurse manager and hospital HR is telling them use your vacation time now, or it will be a use it or loose it. This message is typical of end of october,Nov. Which has all of them wondering “what is hospital administration knows that the rest of us don’t?’

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/16/2020 at 21:07

How they’re doing it here is half the enrolled students will attend, Monday-Tuesday, the whole school will go online Wednesday, While the school gets disinfected, and the other half will attend Thursday-Friday.

So even for the kids that do actually attend it’ll only be 2 days sa week with 3 online days.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/17/2020 at 00:25

What grade?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
08/17/2020 at 00:26

That stresses me out just thinking about it.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2020 at 00:31

I think 7+8th

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience
08/17/2020 at 00:33

I've been thinking about you this weekend. What was the final outcome with the admin? Make sure you protect yourself. There are bound to be COVID-positive kids soon enough that will shut everything down. And only chat to individuals on Zoom...

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/17/2020 at 00:49

That's my age group. I'll be curious to see how many schools are still seating students in four weeks.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2020 at 01:29

I’ll let you all know, I have had no communication at all from my admin. The last communication I got was the remind notification that there was lunch in the cafeteria (I missed it).

Thanks for keeping me in your thoughts, my bet is that my Principal either completely ignores me or gives me a folksie lecture for a minute or two.

The Superi ntende nt did announce his retirement 3pm Friday afternoon, he’s out as soon as they get a replacement. There’s a regularly scheduled board meeting Monday night that’ll actually be an in person meeting, but from the last ‘emergency’ meeting it sounds like they’re locked into this plan of action.

One of the teachers put in shower curtains to completely enclose her desk. This was actually lauded by our Principal as an innovative and positive example of what we should do as teachers. Maybe I’ll do the same but with like a velvet curtain and go for a Wizard of Oz, man behind the curtain theme.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience
08/17/2020 at 14:02

Shower curtains? To what end? Other than for visibility, I don’t see any point in it.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2020 at 14:08

I don’t know that there really is a point, but the teacher has underlying health concerns and this was her husband’s attempt to help.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience
08/17/2020 at 16:01

That actually looks pretty good. That'll make an interesting statement to the students and everyone else when she spends her day in that vinyl bubble. It's really a shame, and my heart really goes out to you, that the people running the district and running the politics in your district are so so far out of touch with reality.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/17/2020 at 23:38

yeah theyre not thinking theyre going to be doing this long . Subs aren’t allowed to go to multiple schools. And its pretty clear they have no plan if things go bad.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/17/2020 at 23:52

Are you an educator as well?

I can’t figure these people out. Derangement?

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
08/18/2020 at 00:10

No but I spend a chunk of my day thinking how to prevent things going wrong, or a best minimalizing the failure spread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis

I think several levels of leadership are still in triage mode and/or ostrich mode when they should have been forced to answer what happens when things go south? “we’ll figure it out when we get there” isn’t a plan. I’ve been chewed out for minor shit of not having plans C, and D,. At this point the lack of reponse is criminal.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
08/18/2020 at 08:37

Risk management?