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actually yeah this is the best point. Gotta feel pretty confident these pick-up games in schaumburg are better development.

Many college kids summer-nanny, but they would also be watching kids who have school and often have parents home. That's not that difficult.

That is ... weird? Maybe in person proctoring of exams ? I still think its just a sensible resource to tap. Many already have child-watching experience and connections to kids/families due to summer nanny jobs. Especially with the restrictions on au pairs.

"If you don't want to send your kids to school, just use one of your private family tutors" - Betsy Devos

They did it with players who have savings opportunities, Madrigal is really unlikely to be much more than a solid starting 2b and that is gonna be pretty easy to re-sign.

whoa what

It is still common. Full-day kindergarten is a district by district thing, basically doubles teacher costs compared to half-day.

Caulfield gonna blow your mind on this one - in America people hire individuals to come to their house and pay them hourly to watch their kids. They even do it with kids as young as 13 to come and watch their kids, and pay them $12-$18/hr. There was even a documentary on it: https://youtu.be/zBmEySbwGsk

I just can't imagine there will be that much savings in holding madrigal down. And with Keuchel, it may make sense to have a better 2b defensively.

Would be nice if there was a competent group that could make a program to take advantage of the college student population who is now taking online courses, and use them as a daycare resource. Create grants for the families to pay for it, students get grants for tuition, and Schools would be required to create schedule flexibility for these students in the program. Schools have easier time getting paid full tuition. childcare/stimulus/higher ed bailout.

I think my disappointment is that this seems actually more forgiving than what I thought was already on the books which was a move back to phase 3 (no indoor dining). But I do think this is trying to square an anticipated rise in cases with a group of politicians in western and southern Illinois that will litigate any statewide rulings - which could undermine things more.

Exceptional infield defense today.

So Pritzker just released an add-on to the original restore Illinois plan. https://www2.illinois.gov/Pages/news-item.aspx?ReleaseID=21818 - Increases number of regions to 11 - Creates snap-back triggers: If : - new cases increase for 7 straight days (or average increases 7 straight days), OR hits 8 % positivity rate in average And 1 of: - Hospital admissions increase 7 days or capacity hits critical threshold Then it graduates through a number of different things: - First thing to go is bar service and reduction in capacities. - Second thing is basically indoor dining and personal service - Third tier sounds basically like the California order Not that thrilled with this but they may figure with the constant undermining via lawsuits they had to go more regional. But things can get out of control quickly and I'd prefer the snapback happens at the state level to discourage travel from the hot spots.

so long as there is a runner on first for him to get his fielders choice (jkjk) ...

Mercedes may be the best left fielder I've ever seen.

Didn't mean to imply Israel was acting irresponsibly in the school situation, they seem to have taken it seriously. Just that it got away from them in a way separate than other countries.

Israel has been wild in every respect. It seemed to have contained it then it exploded again. Others see little issue in schools, theirs seems to be driven by schools. It's been bizarro.

Awesome, I'll look to take a day soon and hit you up for recs. Will have the 3 year old likely on my shoulders

Have you heard any feedback on how packed the dunes has been? I went to starved rock for a Sunday night and while Monday was great, Sunday was pretty disappointing as it was hoards of people without masks. Even outside it was too close for comfort. Dunes could be fun for my kids and seems like you wouldn't have chokepoints like a trail with stairs like that.

Pestering people outside where there is plenty of space to distance yourself seems unnecessary. Save it for the indoors people.

Hong Kong, others are able to act with confidence now. I have friends that live there, people will take the week or so lockdowns where they trace and test like crazy so that people can go back to living as normal. Their life is pretty much the same in between them. Ditto friends that live in Shanghai. In US people won't go back to shutdowns because they never fixed it in the first time, so the in between shutdowns wasn't even back to normal. There's no promise of it getting better. In June when testing turnarounds were a day, it was possible to see this working. But you are right that in a month they will not be able to have hit the scale of mass testing necessary if we are even at 25% lower totals in daily infections. It needed to be way more contained for this to work nationally, because the lab and ppe shortages affect everyone nationally. It's almost like that was a job for the federal gov't.

When I read that, it's hard for me to believe they got the original exposure correct, I don't know.

with it being like 2 weeks since the phase 2 really got out of control I wouldn't be surprised if some modification of behaviors changed around then. Economic indicators show it. Hopefully it turns out that way by you, and then the indoor lockdowns get things on track for august.

This is the sound of me sighing just a little bit of relief.

Was worried these would show up