OT - NO POLITICS The New Normal - Hockey meets the dog days of Summer II

[LSCII]

Thanks. That's the first posted video I've watched in all my years here and it was worth it. Have a great day, LSCII

You have a great day as well my friend!

 

[Gee Wally]

Trump on coronavirus death toll: 'It is what it is'

New cases of coronavirus are down but death is rate up, says FEMA

What Lockdown 2.0 Looks Like: Harsher Rules, Deeper Confusion

A woman who coughed on a brain tumor patient in a viral video has been charged with assault, police say

Trump says coronavirus is "receding" even as deaths rise

Goldman Sachs expects FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine this year

Fauci warns of 'really bad situation' if daily coronavirus cases don't drop to 10K by September

How Technology Will Reshape the Hotel Industry Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Why Harvard's Ashish Jha is worried about coronavirus levels in Massachusetts

60 Percent of COVID Survivors May Be Dealing With This Forever, Study Says

Coronavirus surge slowing in California, but don't expect a repeat of reopening fever

Face masks: Countries are strengthening their rules. Soon you might have to wear one outdoors

 

[LSCII]

If anyone has yet to see this interview, I'd say it's well worth the 35 minutes or so. No commentary from me one way or the other, but watch and draw your own conclusions.

 

[DaveFromNB]

We almost did. But then it all went wrong with hotel quarantine. Aus citizens returning to the country from overseas were required to enter mandatory quarantine in designated hotels for 14 days. Which was fine but then in June some of the under-trained security guards who were patrolling the hotels in Melbourne caught the virus from a few infectious returning travellers. No-one realised for awhile because some of these guys kept working rather than risk losing income, which spread it further, and before we knew it families and then friends had it, and there were hundreds of new cases before any response was made. They've spent 3 weeks trying a partial lockdown, but it didn't work very well - I think people are just over all the restrictions - so now they've gone the nuclear option. Let's see how it goes.

The strange thing is the rest of the country except Sydney, which has a small number of cases, is completely virus-free. So it's an odd contrast between people with nearly full freedom in most of the country, and one part that is essentially trapped at home.

I think the approach to eradicate local outbreaks with targeted draconian efforts is the right one, otherwise in 2 months the whole country will end up being locked down.

I'm in a small province in a "bubble" with 3 others, and the cases are almost at zero, all travel related, and any infections are contract traced to death, and locations are massively tested when necessary. We can live with this thing, but the key is to keep the numbers low (not at zero), and deal with them harshly when they do pop up.

Australia is being watched, not because you're doing a bad job, but because the rest of us are trying to get a handle on how to deal with a second wave.

 

[Gee Wally]

depending on where you live it might be a good idea to secure patio furniture, umbrellas, grills and stuff.

Worcester closes beaches and pools ahead of Tropical Storm Isaias’s arrival, urge restaurants to break down outdoor displays.

Tropical Storm Isaias To Bring Damaging Wind, Tornado Risk To Massachusetts

Charge up phones and tablets.

 

[LSCII]

depending on where you live it might be a good idea to secure patio furniture, umbrellas, grills and stuff.

Worcester closes beaches and pools ahead of Tropical Storm Isaias’s arrival, urge restaurants to break down outdoor displays.

Tropical Storm Isaias To Bring Damaging Wind, Tornado Risk To Massachusetts

Charge up phones and tablets.

Saw this morning that the Worcester area is going to see 60+ MPH gusts from it, so if you have anything on your decks or lawns that can fly away, anchor it down or bring it inside.

 

[Alicat]

depending on where you live it might be a good idea to secure patio furniture, umbrellas, grills and stuff.

Worcester closes beaches and pools ahead of Tropical Storm Isaias’s arrival, urge restaurants to break down outdoor displays.

Tropical Storm Isaias To Bring Damaging Wind, Tornado Risk To Massachusetts

Charge up phones and tablets.

Charging up my laptop now and then I am good here.

I'm expecting to lose power. A lot of very dry, dead trees between the power poles and the main transformer for the complex.

Aquarium T Stop getting prepared for potential flooding from the harbor

 

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Heads up Western MA

 

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[Bruinaura]

 

[Gee Wally]

Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, reports 35 out-of-state visitors with coronavirus may have come to island this summer

'It's a hard choice': Tennessee parents send kids back to school amid new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus experts on what to do and U.S. response to the pandemic

I flew on the 4 largest US airlines during the pandemic and found that the only constant was inconsistency

 

[TD Charlie]

I like that some districts (or maybe it's all of Mass, I don't know) are at least giving parents the choice for remote learning. HOWEVER...forcing them to then use teachers NOT in their school or even their district is a joke.

Everything about this school year and how it's being planned for is a joke. A very dangerous joke.

 

[LSCII]

I like that some districts (or maybe it's all of Mass, I don't know) are at least giving parents the choice for remote learning. HOWEVER...forcing them to then use teachers NOT in their school or even their district is a joke.

Everything about this school year and how it's being planned for is a joke. A very dangerous joke.

Nothing better than having your children used as pawns, right? Good times.

 

[Alicat]

This video out of Beirut Lebanon is insane.

Not sure if it was from an attack. Reports say it was a fireworks warehouse in the port area of the city.

 

[JAD]

I homeschooled my three boys. We found it so much more accommodating then public school. But I understand that it is not for everybody, and not all types of homeschool learning options are the same. It's all about what works best for your situation and your children; and what works for you may be different than what another family does.

I homeschooled my children under the umbrella of Homelife Academy. We picked and submitted our own curriculum and proceeded at our own pace. At first getting everything set up and getting the kids to follow their daily assignments can be chore, but once you get the hang of it it's really not that bad. As a parent you just need to be consistent.

We used textbooks and a daily schedule of classes for each child to follow which worked really well for our family. We administered the tests that came with each subjects curriculum and when the time came we submitted their grades for each semester. One of my sons tried remote learning video through the County school system for one semester his junior year but it didn't work out well it wasn't a good match for him so we went back to the textbooks which was a better fit.

My two older boys attended public school for their senior year and both of them got high honors. So homeschooling was not detrimental to their learning in fact it seemed to prepared them better then what the public schools were offering.

 

[JAD]

I don't know if it has been mentioned here before but how they are counting new cases may not be totally accurate.

For example if I tested positive and I was in contact with 19 other people then they are counting all 20 people as positive whether they are or not. So in theory it could take only five true positive people with 19 contacts each to suddenly reach 100 positive reports.

I could post my sources but I don't want to get banded because they are alternative conservative news sources and some may consider that political. But do the research yourself, the truth is out there.

 

[JAD]

Disclaimer: there is nothing political in this video just some interesting information about wearing masks. Mods if posting this violates some rule please remove, there is no ill intent here.

 

[Gee Wally]

Out here in Central Mass... we just got a tornado warning, Grafton, Milbury, Upton and Worcester. From now until 9:00 tonight.

 

[LSCII]

Out here in Central Mass... we just got a tornado warning, Grafton, Milbury, Upton and Worcester. From now until 7:00 tonight.

Crap. I have to go to some random farm to pick up ice cream made from cream from an ancient line of cows today too. This hurricane better not mess with me getting my girls their special ice cream...lol

 

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[Alicat]

Out here in Central Mass... we just got a tornado warning, Grafton, Milbury, Upton and Worcester. From now until 9:00 tonight.

I think you mean watch. If you got a warning you best go hide in the basement b/c it means a tornado is on the ground in your area

 

[Shaun]

bruins won the cup the last time there was a tornado in worcester

 

[Gee Wally]

I think you mean watch. If you got a warning you best go hide in the basement b/c it means a tornado is on the ground in your area

youre right.

tornado watch

tropical storm warning.

my ipad going off like a slot machine