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No one wore masks at the GA camp, which I believe was an overnight camp. It was stupid.
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I'm still not believing that a kid walking into class and sneezing is forcing closures on any significant scale. You'll get a few cases where that happens but most people are going to use some common sense. There are runny noses and coughs every single drop-off at daycare. They do temp checks, and our school is also doing temp checks, but those are sketchy at best. The policy that's written out isn't necessarily the one that's followed in practice. I doubt any school would put in writing that their official policy is "hacking up a lung is OK, as long as there's also not a fever."
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Sure there is. I don't know anything about the school but if this was a violation of a pre-existing policy they can suspend the kid. Going viral itself can't be the reason, and the principal looks like a doofus, but this absolutist statement just isn't fair. The kid can be doing the right thing and still be justifiably suspended. I remember when I was in HS a bunch of kids got detention for 'walking out' to protest the Iraq War. It's not quite the same, but there is still a reason she can be suspended.
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One thing I love about west coast trips is 9p games. When I get home from work I like enjoying what daylight we have left and go run or bike. Those are my absolute favorite games.
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Lorenzo Cain opts out for remainder of 2020 season
OldSchoolSnapper replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I love Braun...but I'm not sure he's in that class. Cruz .311/.392/.639 1.031 41 HR's in 120 games(his average for the past 5 seasons) Davis signed coming off a 48 HR season and 4 straight 40+HR seasons. Encarnacion is a bit closer, but still has been quite a bit more productive in recent seasons. And then there's the financial impact Covid is having on all sports and is inevitably going to have on the Brewers. I would love to see Braun back next year, but I would guess if the number is the 11 million, it'll be Mark A who makes that call. I just can't see Stearns devoting that much to a declining hitter for what would be at least in part sentimental reasons. But I hope it happens. IDK what it would cost. But is Braun interested, at 37, in going somewhere else for 1 year? I'm sure someone would take him, but he probably has a pretty short of places he's willing to go. That might make it hard for him to get picky about the money. -
Honestly, I'm not really loving what the kid did. The principal sounds like a dweeb, and they should probably focus on actually following the protocol, but I'm not super jazzed about another kid filming other kids without their consent, their parents' consent, and blasting it all over social media. Most daycares now have opt-in things where you have to permit them to post photos of your kids on social media. I don't like the idea of kids filming stuff at school and posting it online. It makes me uncomfortable for the other kids and for the teachers. Obviously, this happens all the time, but with the attention it attracted I probably would have been expecting to get in trouble. In this specific case, the school has a bigger problem, but I don't have an issue with the suspension really because it's not a precedent I'd want to set.
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Lorenzo Cain opts out for remainder of 2020 season
OldSchoolSnapper replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Agree, it's not quite as crazy as it sounds when you look around the league and see that. I don't know much about contracts, but if there is some way to rip the whole thing up, and bring him back for something $8 million, I am betting that's what they do if both parties want to go one more round. -
That was exactly my point. You don't know whether it's a cold or whether it's COVID until it's too late, so you have to shut it down as a precaution until you're certain it's not COVID. As such, what percentage of classes will be shut down as a result of a symptom come November? 70%? More? At that point, the school will just be better off shutting down anyway... Right, but my point is that there has been way too much work put into this for closing to be that easy. There are districts that have contracted survey companies to gather data on the community pulse, all kinds of pamphlets, etc. It makes no sense to do all that if school is closing for a runny nose. There's dumb, and there's just completely implausible, and this would be latter. In our survey, 2% of parents supported an outright closure and mandatory virtual learning. At our last school board meeting, the only dissent was a lawyer from the teachers union. After he spoke, three teachers got up and said their piece about why we need to open. I just can't believe there's anybody out there who thinks there is any chance of getting through a day without one of those symptoms. The only thing I've seen from the school is that once there is an official case of COVID, that students cohort is shut down for 2 weeks. I think there is an expectation that parents keep their kids home this year with mild anything, which is in contrast to years past, where they've outright said to send your kid to school with the sniffles.
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The list of covid symptoms is seemingly endless now. It encompasses stuff like memory fog, headache, fatigue, etc. There's zero point to wasting anybody's time if that is closing down school.
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I dont think itll close for a cold or runny nose, but I would be shocked if they didnt close when there is a confirmed case of covid. I assume most places have already declared their covid policy, mine has. It's the aforementioned closure of the class (everyone exposed to the kid) for I believe a 2-week minimum. But a random cold? That's never going to fly here. People will lose their minds. But this definitely a less...blue area, I guess.
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I'm skeptical that the citizenry is going to just go along with another mass closure. When (not if) someone gets a cold, and the school orders a classroom closed for two weeks, the parents are going to flip out. Especially in my neck of the woods. Daycare isn't getting enough publicity. We attend two different daycares, they've been full of the usual boogers and such all summer, only started wearing masks last week, and there hasn't been any incident or closure. I know one in town just closed because they had a confirmed covid case. The schools, while they are in a different stratosphere...I'm just not seeing them closing for a runny nose. Half the parents here work in the same factory, they can't just turn on laptops and keep money coming in.
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I couldn't care less about the outcomes of these games. They need to get these guys in shape, I don't care what they were doing during the downtime, you can't replicate competition shape without playing. And acclimated to their new weird gameday routines.
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This is one of the things that concerns me about the whole school thing. There is one group of people that seems to acknowledge the likelihood of positive cases at school and is taking that on. Then there is another group that seems to assume it's perfectly "safe," and that the expectation is the risk of transmission in school is low to nonexistent. I almost wish the schools would come out and just say that there is a good chance your child will get COVID at school, but if they do that, they will likely face a mountain of public pressure to close. The school administrations are in a terrible position. There will be pitchforks in many places if they close, and a whole lot of shaming the instant there is a case. I dunno what their answer is.
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Yeah, illogical was not a good word choice, it was logical, but it was being stated as fact by some when it was a guess.
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I'm aware it's easy to look up as I did so before making the comment. On April 4, the one day I bothered looking up before I said anything, the temperature reached 72. Your hang up on this is frankly weird to me. Whether it was 64 or 75 I don't really care. It wasn't 27 like it is here in February. So a virus, doing just fine in the 60s and low 70s, is going to just fold in Milwaukee's/NYC's summer? Sounded like wishful thinking. That was my only point. I didn't do a deep dive on Iran's weather, but knew enough that it was not at all similar to ours when people were saying those things.
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That's one of the reasons it didn't make sense to me. "This isn't the flu" was an early mantra, there was all kinds of info (some incorrect) that the spread was way different than flu. It didn't sound like anything based in reality, just wishful thinking. That and it was thriving in 70+ temps in Iran.
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What about Iran's climate makes you think it's an example of a climate fantasy? The average highs in Tehran in Feb/March are probably about 50 degrees. They're significantly cooler in more northern cities like Tabriz or if you gain any elevation. The temperatures were in the 70s in Tehran when the virus was exploding there during the first week of April. That July and August would stop the virus in the northern US made no sense. If anything, it seemed to get worse in the South, where people went indoors, and in the North, where people started hanging out together again. But that didn't stop anyone, including some people here, from saying the summer would save us. As a person who badly wanted that to be true, it never seemed logical to me at all.
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Lorenzo Cain opts out for remainder of 2020 season
OldSchoolSnapper replied to Eye Black's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Don't underestimate the possibility of someone's wife in their ear about how they're scared and want a player to come home. For all you know Cain wanted to play and his wife hated it. No idea if that's the case obviously, but more goes into this than a player's thoughts. I'm surprised he showed up at all. He's at twilight of his career, has made tons of money, and is 2 months from his regular offseason anyway. That would be a hard sell for me. -
I don't know why people were clinging to the climate fantasy as long as they were. One of the first places it badly exploded was Iran.
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I don't think it's going to get cancelled either. That would have happened by now. I think they'll push through unless it's totally catastrophic, like a player is intubated. Of course, if the Brewers end up one the last 4 teams I'm sure I'll be all into it again.
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Missing the last weekend of games and then Cain dropping out took a lot of the wind out of my sails. If one of our best players and leaders doesn't care about this, it's pretty hard for me to care. I don't mean that as a criticism of him at all, but it's just difficult for me to take this sloppy mess seriously. You can't go to the games, then they're adding goofy rules, it's not really working and then guys are quitting. I felt before it started that I would take a WS title seriously, but I can't say that anymore. Something about the whole thing just feels off. When I watch the NBA right now, it doesn't feel as empty.
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It's confirmed in the Philly clubhouse now. This ain't good.
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I think all of this is out the window this year. The season is two months long.
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Online class has been a trend for like 12 years now. Whitewater has a huge program. It's just one problem the NCAA is going to have though. Getting a bunch of kids to isolate is not going to be easy whether the classes are online or not. The 18-22 demo is not great at this sort of thing.
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Joe Kelly suspended for 14.5% of the remaining season
OldSchoolSnapper replied to homer's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
He is a pitcher so the "8 games" is more statement than reality. I assume it gets appealed and ends up being not that big of a deal in practicality. But I think it was about sending a message that you can't troll the Astros all year because MLB can't afford 60 guys wrestling and drooling on each other in the infield this year.
