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Yeah, I think this is good guidance, but definitely a lot of flexibility. I think it makes most sense to provide staggered schedules, but that runs into its recommendations to keep child care in mind. It's also just going to be a hell of a job for teachers, admins, and students. Bare minimum here is masks, distance, and a good amount of supplies. But there is a lot that can be deployed within it that I hope is done, like having teachers move classrooms instead of kids where possible. It was very thoughtful and they clearly took the feedback into account. But some of these recommendations run into each other and I feel for the school districts that are more over crowded.

Is the detailed guidance beyond what the governor released today?

plenty of people would like to know that cutting down on talking decreases likelihood of spread. People that may have answered a call may keep it quiet. And if a homeless person is asleep they likely aren't talking so not sure the issue there. There's also plenty of self-regulation by people on trains. There's a difference between making something mandatory (no masks on cars) and communicating to the public to decrease talking so that people will be healthier. They didn't make handwashing mandatory either.

Surprised here.

I think an important takeaway from the taipei and japan metros is talking, also airplanes themselves. I really wish chicago would have promoted being quiet on the train cars. Low-hanging fruit like that I don't know why they avoid it. What's the worst that can happen advocating that? So lunch time seems like a particularly dangerous time, and illinois should seriously consider suspending PE requirements. But there's ways around that. Cut lunch time in half, half half as many students at a time to eat spread apart for one part of lunch and then move to gymnasium or something for study. And hopefully with classes can add some plastic protection at ends of desks. I'd also hope they'll consider delaying school until the second week of september where air conditioning would be less necessary.

It really isn't clear at all that especially younger kids are strong transmitters of the disease. They are certainly capable of it, but the younger they are there has been studies that the viral load may be lower. Which is different than typical spread where their filthy hands get you sick. And I disagree that high schoolers won't wear masks. Israel is really the only place I've seen where schools reopening had spread. Southsideirish is right, this is a significant effect on education. Kids are falling behind from the shut down.

illinois had one of those days that essentially nothing changed but because less people got tested it feels like a nice drop.

I don’t see the players as being in a very strong position for a grievance anymore, am pretty surprised at them turning this down.

IL numbers have started to plateau, but tests have stayed really high last 5 days some of the biggest dips saw drops in tests. Chicago numbers look great however, I hope this isn’t growth in the rest of the state

Yikes. 4K reported by Florida. That only happened once in Illinois on its first big testing day.

meh day, 27k tests (good), 2.5% positive, 650+ new cases. Hopefully next week we are consistently under 500/day.

I'm not gonna lie. I think the boras stuff is B.S., I think he's being used as a bogeyman in leaks.

kind of a big caveat.

One of my prejudices around them for a while was I felt like our Yaris (hatchback) actually had better storage space than many compact suvs just because the trunk was a straight-up cube - no obstruction completely flat on the ground. Definitely with something like the Rav-4 it felt like we had more ability to stuff the yaris up with stuff, even many sedans felt like they had more ability than some of the compact ones. But yeah that's not the case with all of them, and holy crap the full size ones are going from a sardine can to a costco jar of beans.

I was this way and still am this way (i don't know anything nor car much beyond "ooh this is fast and my head doesn't hit the ceiling when I hit a bump unlike my 2008 toyota yaris"), but we got a 2017 volvo xc90 with our car settlement and gotta tell ya, much nicer having some space in a car, a nice quiet ride, and some subtle nice stuff to treat the driver to. I used to hate SUVs, and never expected something this nice. Daddington island changes stuff.

hoping he was signed for $1. $20k pays for several more employees through july.

pretty sweet, looks like halo, but I imagine WRs, RBs and Qbs will revolt if they have to wear something with sightlines that diminished.

yeah, was going to say I had it a few weeks ago. I was pretty impressed but not fun for a kid I'd imagine. Hope saliva tests become more available by fall.

so yeah i just found this. I thought when the grant money was released in early june this process would be much faster: https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-cook-county-contact-tracing-20200611-twzam6xpa5fctjg6pyhog7qid4-story.html I can't do that math, if 400 was needed for 60% of cases in the fall...that's what 4% of cases are being traced currently?

eh, as someone who was very negative on negotiations, THIS is what final negotiations look like. Yesterday was the first real movement from owners, players take it back to get more, owners say No way, the worst we'll do is X, then it signs. If the owners then propose 54 games tomorrow, then we're back to hell zone.

nice follow-up day, still going strong. No uptick from protestors yet. 25500 tests, 589 positives. slightly above yesterday with 5k fewer tests, but still just a 2.3% positive.

yep

I’m still very concerned about bars, night clubs and churches even with masks. The drinking and dancing makes night clubs seem impossible especially on tracing. Id prefer they stick with the outdoor focus through sept.

thank ze heavens. At this rate they are going to need to make a bubble in illinois to play in though. Or alaska.

my biggest concern is that because it skewed so young many may be the prototype for asymptomatic carriers. If they haven't get tested they wouldn't show up but people they infect may appear in the next 15 days. That's why I was glad to see a big testing spike today as it had started to decline and my guess is that would be due to just population wanting the test going down. https://app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrIjoiYjUwNjEwN2QtYmJkYS00MTZmLTg4YjMtZGRkMzEzMmFmYjg4IiwidCI6IjcwMzZjZGE5LTA2MmQtNDE1MS04MTQ0LTk3ZGRjNTZlNzAyNyJ9 Also I got my answer. The previous day always shows up as 1 in the dashboard. However, Monday shows only 34 cases in Chicago, the only mondays I found that was lower than the sunday reports. So it's not just illinois not seeing a hot spot, Chicago is seeing massive decline now a full 2 weeks post protests. That is probably the bigger thing to hang its hats on and I know NYC is the same.