StrangeSox

Seems to me that if you have to put out signs like this, it's not actually safe to be doing in-person learning

this is going to rapidly accelerate in the next couple of months

More good discussion of using less-sensitive, low-cost rapid testing. They wont' pick you up at low, low, low levels, but they'll pick you up before you become infectious. So maybe these cheaper tests would take an extra day or two to pick up, but if we can drastically increase testing volume and turnaround time, we're going to catch and quarantine far more cases early on. This is the way out of this until we get widespread effective vaccination and/or treatment.

The best research I've seen is that study from SK. They found that kids 10-18 spread it at least as well as adults in household settings. Children 0-9 spread it about 25% as well, but their sample size of those children was pretty small. And this was again focused on household spread, as the study was conducted while schools were closed. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html Hopefully that holds, and elementary schools and daycares won't be the infection bombs that junior highs and high schools will be. But it's looking more and more like school reopening is gonna go about as well as MLB's season.

Now do this for thousands of schools across the country

let's meet in the middle: 5-inning continuous play for up to 48 hours get as many games on the book as quickly as possible!

it'll get to the point where they just have to play continuously. Hit the end of 9 innings and roll right over into the 1st inning of the next game. Really though, there's just not a feasible way to do this with traveling teams in a country with unchecked spread.

The baked-in physical distancing in baseball seems to have limited team-to-team spread, but it still seems probable that other teams will have someone pick it up outside of baseball and then spread it to multiple people on the team. How do you get around that if you're flying, what, 1500 people around the country and staying in hotels every week?

Just keep postponing games until they're playing baseball in blizzards in January. Really, if you're not going to go the bubble route, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this safely without constant, substantial interruptions when there's an unchecked pandemic raging in a lot of the country.

Even though there are some serious issues with Pritzker's decisions wrt Covid lately, I'm very glad I don't live in any of the other states that Illinois borders It's going to take a long, long time for this country to recover from this.

This is Durbin's opponent for this November.

Another week, another 1,400,000 new unemployment claims. Democratic leadership is saying they're open to reducing unemployment benefits so people are incentivized to get back to work (to jobs that don't exist in the middle of a raging pandemic). Parts of the GOP are already coming out hard in favor of austerity (read: mass suffering). Unemployment benefit boosts end today. In most states, eviction moratoriums end as well. Meanwhile, the obscenely wealthy continue to greatly increase their wealth as tens of millions of Americans are plunged into desperate poverty and a pandemic still rages. This is not a healthy society or economy. Something will give.

I noticed the other day that the mitigation measures outlined by IDPH make zero mention of schools. https://coronavirus.illinois.gov/s/restore-illinois-mitigation-plan They're going to do everything they possibly can to avoid doing the right thing.

IL was added to the NY/NJ/CT quarantine list. IL positivity continues a steady climb updwards.

What do you do with them for the 250+ nights a year a visiting team isn't in town?

The thing is that it's really tough to slap down this sort of thing no matter how many detailed and accurate rebuttals you have at hand. People aren't generally coming to believe things like this based on rational consideration of the evidence at hand, or looking into sources cited, or who the people making these claims are. So you slap this nonsense down, then it's just on to the next thing--Plandemic, or "proof" that masks actually make you sicker, or claims that death counts are inflated because their cousin's buddy is a doctor who knows they test DOA car crash victims for COVID to get that sweet, sweet money. It's really, really hard to reason someone out of a position they didn't use reason to get to. Basically social media rapidly spreading propaganda and conspiracies will be the death of modern society imo.