Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #40

[10ofRods]

Our elementary teachers are using Zoom. They love it. My husband/ the high school is using google classroom, as all the HS students a a district provided chrome book. ( high school has an excellent grant writer) the teachers all have document cameras as well (from another grant)

Do you think that the elementary teachers are all used to having their face be the focal point? I'm used to writing complex things on a whiteboard and I can't figure that part out. I mean, I can sort of hold up a piece of paper (no digital whiteboard at my house). I guess it's okay if I just appear perplexed part of the time. I hate having to fake being happy to see everyone (I'm not happy about this situation at all, but I'm not an elementary school teacher -further, the course content - human biology and human evolution, including natural selection - is already sort of grim).

I need to try it though. Because we're told we're not going back into actual classrooms until August.

Maybe some of us should try a WS zoom. How many boxes can a screen hold? (I have 70-100 students in some classes).

 

[Snoods]

WHERE were these cases? My gosh!

Virginia, Houston, New York, off the top of my head. I can check my back postings and post the links.

No worries, I believe at least one of them was subjected to wearing a GPS monitor. Oh the humanity!

 

[jvikes]

Duh. I think I can pull that off (it's a lie, although "webcam" doesn't really describe what happens on my laptop - it looks like fishbowl cam.

I am psyching myself up for it. I am a good public speaker, I just do not like appearing on camera. I've mastered the make-up techniques that keep me from looking weird, but...I don't want to see myself in a square with my facial expressions while I'm trying to communicate. I tend to look rather impassive even when I'm not (if I could walk around the room in my little square, that would be different).

Yeah, I've come to find peace in the fact that everyone else on the call probably hates being on video as much or worse than me.

 

[MamaOV]

While New York has seen by far the worst of the virus so far, the governors of Maryland, Louisiana and Michigan said in television interviews that their states’ health systems were at risk of becoming overburdened. The three states could become the next hot spots as cases climb in the Washington suburbs, Detroit and New Orleans.

Maryland? I had no idea!!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...99f262-71e8-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html

 

[jvikes]

Do you think that the elementary teachers are all used to having their face be the focal point? I'm used to writing complex things on a whiteboard and I can't figure that part out. I mean, I can sort of hold up a piece of paper (no digital whiteboard at my house). I guess it's okay if I just appear perplexed part of the time. I hate having to fake being happy to see everyone (I'm not happy about this situation at all, but I'm not an elementary school teacher -further, the course content - human biology and human evolution, including natural selection - is already sort of grim).

I need to try it though. Because we're told we're not going back into actual classrooms until August.

Maybe some of us should try a WS zoom. How many boxes can a screen hold? (I have 70-100 students in some classes).

It only highlights the few folks that are making noise, so sit real still and quiet and it will never put you front and center. If you're leading the call, all my condolences.

 

[10ofRods]

It only highlights the few folks that are making noise, so sit real still and quiet and it will never put you front and center. If you're leading the call, all my condolences.

Yeah I would be leading the call. I just keep feeling like it's Hollywood Squares.

Another weird thing. In a real classroom, the kids who sit up front are noticeable and are always the most polite. They at least bother to look interested. I can't even imagine having to look at 50 faces of varying degrees of interest (including some sick or sleepy ones? All of them equal on my screen?)

I'm overthinking this but that's what I do best.

 

[10ofRods]

Sewing aloha: Volunteers across island create masks for medical professionals - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Just a feel good story (that's my gorgeous niece at the sewing machine in one of the pix). Big Island Strong!

 

[momrids6]

Duh. I think I can pull that off (it's a lie, although "webcam" doesn't really describe what happens on my laptop - it looks like fishbowl cam.

I am psyching myself up for it. I am a good public speaker, I just do not like appearing on camera. I've mastered the make-up techniques that keep me from looking weird, but...I don't want to see myself in a square with my facial expressions while I'm trying to communicate. I tend to look rather impassive even when I'm not (if I could walk around the room in my little square, that would be different).

@jvikes Can you share your screen only? Then it would be like a voice over

 

[10ofRods]

Lol no I just stunk!!!

Exactly what I needed to know.

Back when I was a kid...(story time)...we only changed underwear daily but not pajamas and certainly not everything else. Especially during rainy season as there was no drier.

My students are struggling a very great deal with all of this (apparently, now that people have more time for laundry they are using up detergent pretty quickly and competing over washing machines at home).

 

[Alethea]

I cancelled my instacart order. An employee at our (small, rural) grocery store tested positive. The only things we really ran out of that we use are milk, eggs, and onions. I think we just decided to go another week without and then reevaluate. I’m just too nervous with the community spread all over.

 

[Yesiamapirate]

Sewing aloha: Volunteers across island create masks for medical professionals - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

Just a feel good story (that's my gorgeous niece at the sewing machine in one of the pix). Big Island Strong!

Thanks for sharing this story. You must be proud of your niece!

 

[ilovewings]

I think you are probably attractive also...... Did you have a lot of toilet paper, coffee, and cigarettes in your shopping basket ?... You gotta watch out for those smooth talkers, my Mom always told my little sister.....moo

I hardly had anything- Walgreens has no paper products and no disinfectant wipes- i bought some lipstick and candy- this guy looked like he was a degenerate or the homeless---he was kinda gross!!!!

i am in Australia and i knew who she was, that's insane expect us to see more of our famous people leave us as this goes on

i hope we remember these people just like we have for many others we've lost over the years to various things

ugly ugly virus this thing is, some people are fine and others die it almost seems so random

The randomness of it astounds me

 

[PommyMommy]

March 29 coronavirus news - CNN
Trump describes grim scenes from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens

President Donald Trump described a grim scene of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, including body bags and refrigerated trucks to take away bodies.

[...]

Trump added that he has never seen anything like this in this country.

This is in my community in Queens, New York. I have seen things that I’ve never seen before. I mean I've seen them, but I’ve seen them on television and faraway lands, never in my country," Trump said. "When I see the trucks pull up to take out bodies, and these are trucks that are as long as the Rose Garden. And they're pulling up to take out bodies and you look inside, and you see the black body bags and you say what is in there? (It's) Elmhurst Hospital, must be supplies. It is not supplies, it is people. I have never seen anything like it."

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[10ofRods]

@jvikes Can you share your screen only? Then it would be like a voice over

I really don't know. I have to sign up again, and see what happens. I wouldn't mind so much if it were just a voice over. Or if I could stand about 10 feet from the camera, ha.

 

[Cool Cats]

TIP:

4 eyes are better than 2.

My friend shops a little ways out of town where her dad lives and thus is in stores I am not in. She can find TP and peroxide (good alternative to hand sanitizer) I can't. So I gave her some $ and asked her to pick these items up for me when she sees them.

Likewise, I go to an out-of-the-way family owned market that she doesn't go to where I can find good quality ground round for her.

I figure we are doubling our chances of finding things and that is a good thing!

 

[10ofRods]

March 29 coronavirus news - CNN
Trump describes grim scenes from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens

President Donald Trump described a grim scene of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, including body bags and refrigerated trucks to take away bodies.

[...]

Trump added that he has never seen anything like this in this country.

This is in my community in Queens, New York. I have seen things that I’ve never seen before. I mean I've seen them, but I’ve seen them on television and faraway lands, never in my country," Trump said. "When I see the trucks pull up to take out bodies, and these are trucks that are as long as the Rose Garden. And they're pulling up to take out bodies and you look inside, and you see the black body bags and you say what is in there? (It's) Elmhurst Hospital, must be supplies. It is not supplies, it is people. I have never seen anything like it."

[...]

Thank you so much for this, PommyMommy. There was definitely a sea change in the president's tone and demeanor over the past couple of days. This is actually getting to him, as it is to all of us. It's good to hear him speak of his own personal connections to the situation.

I know he treasures New York (don't we all?) and I think it's good that he realizes that he hasn't seen everything...yet.

 

[PommyMommy]

Coronavirus updates: Trump extends social distancing guidelines until April 30
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The number of cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. continued to rise Sunday, with over 137,200 total confirmed cases nationwide and more than 2,400 deaths since the outbreak began. New York remains the epicenter of the U.S. crisis, as Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday a 68-bed makeshift hospital tent is being built outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Central Park.

In Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said the state had the second-highest number of per capita deaths. He said that within the last 24 hours, there have been 225 new coronavirus cases in the state and 2,710 tests run. The total number of cases in the state is 35,040, with 14 new deaths.

[...]

Abbott's mandatory quarantine came one day after similar measures were announced in Florida. That state's governor, Ron DeSantis, announced Sunday checkpoints would be set up along interstates that travelers from New York and Louisiana usually use. Any visitors from those states would have to go into a mandatory 14-day quarantine.

[...]

 

[10ofRods]

Thanks for sharing this story. You must be proud of your niece!

I am. She's amazing. So are her sisters and brother (my sister's kids). They have had their sewing machines for Hawaiian quilting (prize winning) for a long time. But now, of course, they are devoted to helping their island.

 

[PommyMommy]

Coronavirus live updates and news: Cases top 721,000 globally - CNN
Opera singer Placido Domingo is hospitalized in Mexico with coronavirus

Opera legend Placido Domingo has been hospitalized in Acapulco, Mexico, with complications related to Covid-19.

"He is doing well and is responding to treatment," Domingo's spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.

Last Sunday, the Spanish tenor announced on his Facebook page that he had tested positive.

[...]

 

[Trudie]

I cancelled my instacart order. An employee at our (small, rural) grocery store tested positive. The only things we really ran out of that we use are milk, eggs, and onions. I think we just decided to go another week without and then reevaluate. I’m just too nervous with the community spread all over.

Glad you know about the grocery employee!