Every means possible has been implemented to continue the educational experience. The problem causers are the typical group who want everything for no input and buck the system no matter what the system is. Teachers and administrators have bent over backward to help those who refuse it.
School systems are in a strange new world right now. There's no handbook for this situation. But, they seem to be doing it, kinda amazing. Prom isn't going to happen I'd imagine. One less chore for me, which is the only important thing anyway.
Our kids' school district actually did have a handbook. Schools closed in-person a week before spring break. It was a bit of a rodeo the first week then the teachers used the time off for spring break to iron everything out and it's been running smooth ever since. It's tragic but the Columbine school shootings 20 years ago is what caused the district to have a contingency for remote learning. All the kids already had ChromeBooks issued and administered by the district and were familiar with the use of Google Classrooms. I've found out I suck as a teacher but I've been more than impressed with how the kids and the teachers are dealing with it.
Chromebooks for seventh and up. Ipads for those younger. Set that up nearly seven years ago. Almost every student has internet access in their home. A local telephone company added hotspots in numerous locations around our district and others so that no one was very far from service. Good old paper items would be delivered to students' homes by our bus drivers who no longer have routes to drive but must be kept busy doing something. We are feeding more students than ever with daily home delivery by those same bus drivers and others who needed something to do with their time.
My son lived just northwest of High Point for almost 9 years. I really enjoyed being able to spend time in the area. Lets hope they can get back to business real soon.
I think the hardware and logistics aren't the hardest part, what impressed me with our district was that they actually had a plan and had done some training on how to implement it. I'm sure there are a ton of different districts across the country that are dealing with it well, I'm not trying to say ours is better than any other, it's by no means perfect but the decision to close the schools came quick and they were able to handle it without much warning. There are several neighboring districts that are better funded than ours and they sat idle for 2 or 3 weeks trying to figure it out. Let kids that age sit that long not learning and it becomes exponentially harder to get them to reengage. We have a close teacher friend in the Houston area and she's happy if she can get her kids to read for 30 minutes per day. There's always a certain percentage that, especially if they don't have any support at home, just aren't going to care.
Lockdown thought of the day.
Cleaning the house with everyone home is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.
I've been out 2 to 3 days each week and Traffic is light and I see few people on my boundary surveys most of the time anyway.
Midmorning. I actually had new client call wanting me to meet 45mi away to be shown where they wanted to build a house. Worked that out easy enough on the phone. They still have to find a builder and have a plan.?ÿ
Really have needy projects at home office to put two rooms of office equipment into on room and find time to rewire computers to monitors and backup drives.
The rest of the days has been rain from near every direction there is.
Can't go fishing without a license now because Governor closed down all the State Parks and there are several within a 30 min drive.
3 to 4 more weeks of the greater majority of Texas still under lockdown.
My daughter enjoys school broadcast from cell phone to the tv.
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Two new infection rate studies done in California:
Santa Clara County: between 50,000-80,000 infected-2.5% to 4.2% of the total population
There was a lot of angry push-back from this study out of Stanford University.
As the push-back got going a similar study done out of USC for Los Angles county:
Infection rate for LA County ranged from 2.8% to 5.6%.
Both studies suggest a death rate for COVID 19 similar to the seasonal flu.?ÿ
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That would be good news, if the test is really accurate.?ÿ We still need to avoid overwhelming the hospitals by having all the serious cases in a short time, but in many areas that hasn't been a problem.
But it doesn't seem to fit with the number of dead in places like NY City. They don't have that many flu deaths every year, do they?
Are those conclusions California specific? I wonder if they looked at Spain and Italy numbers for a comparative analysis.?ÿ
They don't have that many flu deaths every year, do they?
A quick search finds numbers 13k dead in NYC attributed to COVID?ÿ and ~2k flu and pneumonia deaths in 2018.
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As amazing as it may seem, I don't believe seroprevalence tests are being done much of anywhere. The two in California are apparently the only ones in the country so far published, as far as Spain, Italy, New York if I understand what I've read they haven't been done. Of course I'm getting this info off the internet so it must be correct.
One thing I will speak to is the statisticians criticizing the studies: Get your butt off your office chair, get out in the field and do your own study, publish your findings, if ever there was a time to step up and do some work in your field it's now!!!!
Thankfully, we're not as bad as New York. According to the state health department, we've performed 83,331 tests and found 6,951 positives for a positive rate of 8.3%. We have had 213 deaths. We still have 7 of 100 counties without a confirmed case.
The Butner medium security federal prison, home of Bernie Madoff, north of Raleigh has 53 confirmed cases and 5 deaths. 28 of the cases are inmates and 25 are staff. State prisons are also under seige as are nursing homes.
There's some pressure to reopen the state, along with some demonstrations. What's essential and what's not is confusing. i can buy prescription dog food from my vet, and a bottle of booze at the liquor store, but I can't take the dogs to the groomer nor can I get a haircut.
It's the sixties all over again; loaded and unkempt.
A concern with the statistics is that COVID-19 is being used as the default cause of death if there is any question whatsoever.?ÿ That was why the number in NYC jumped by 4000 in one day.?ÿ The were holding off from labeling a death, by say heart attack, if the patient tested positive and suddenly lumping the vast majority of those cases into the pandemic count.
We'll never know. The Washington Post said today that two people in Santa Clara County, California died from covid-19 in early and mid-February. And those people had no travel history, so it's likely that their cases were community-spread.
The history of this disease might be revised many times over the next decade. Great fuel for Ph.D. candidates and publication-starved professors, but pretty bad for the rest of us.
Two new infection rate studies done in California:
There is criticism of the Stanford study's statistical methods used to reach their conclusions. There is serious uncertainty about the false positive rate of the test, such that it might give a similar result even if no one was exposed.
Also, fears that self-selection may have led more people to volunteer who had reason to think they had exposure so that even if the test were perfect the result might not be representative of the population.
Then the way they adjusted their sample of people to try to represent the general population's gender, race, and home location (but they didn't adjust for age?) would increase the variability of the percentages.
Stay at home in Utah order, but not mandatory. A lot of business shut down manditory. I been tested, negative two weeks ago.
I??ve had walking pneumonia all winter. 4 runs of anti-biotics and two lung cat scans.?ÿ Think I??m clear, doctor says next time I get intravenous antibiotic.?ÿ Got a sore throat I just can??t shake.?ÿ Utah doing a lot of testing, if you have one symptom you can get a test.
I??m scared as heck to go out around other people.?ÿ This virous will probably kill me. I been to one store in the last month, auto parts for oil, early on.?ÿ Wife goes to Wal-Mart which I don??t like.?ÿ I stay in truck in parking lot, most people just acting normal.?ÿ Kids doing a lot of shopping for us.?ÿ I been doing field work, can do that in rural area without close contact to others.
I finally decided I would be willing to die other than not seeing my kids and grandkids this late in life.?ÿ Family being very careful.
I put in a GRAMMA request to the recorders office to get all the pdf files they have for plats. tax maps, subdivisions, abstracts, etc., about 200 GB that could be copied to a flash drive in a few minutes.?ÿ Denied unless I pay the copy fee of about $2 each.?ÿ ?ÿI??ve tried to appeal but so far it hasn??t even been acknowledged.?ÿ Pretty sure it will be denied.?ÿ They??d chuck me under the bus and have no problem if the virus killed me from going into the recorder??s office, got to collect their fees.?ÿ My county is so broke they can??t spend the night.They themselves walled of with plexiglas I've been told as I've not been there for a couple months.?ÿ I??m sort of paralyzed as far as research.?ÿ They will email plats for 2-4 dollars each, deeds also if on the computer back to about 1990.?ÿ I can??t identify older deeds I need without access to the abstract files, some scanned already.?ÿ It would be hard to tell them what you needed.
Other than take it to court I might just buy all these files and offer them for free online. It would be cheaper than going to court.?ÿ Start small, ask people to donate or forward any file to me they need to buy that we didn't have. The recorder will lose fees over time until they do put stuff online.?ÿ I have a lot of files already purchased over the last 20 years.
I just finished up remolding my home office about when this started, goog luck on that one.?ÿ Working at home other than field work just normal.
@ridge keep your chin up. and keep working. Once this passes so many things will change for the better.
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$2 a copy! Holy .....
In my 25 years in the Portland area I've been to the deed room 4 or 5 times. And that is 4 or 5 times more than anybody else I know in this business. We get our deeds by calling a title company and asking for the current vesting deed, or for specific documents. No charge. Occasionally, if we ask for a large volume of documents, they will charge an hourly research rate. Many of the companies have a dedicated email address to send the requests to. Some have web pages for the purpose. These days I usually get a response within an hou or so of makingthe request.
When in Oklahoma I was expected to go to deed rooms often, and usually welcomed the opportunity to get out of the office and see some countryside. But I was also able to get a few documents over the phone, from title companies.
My suggestion to you is to make a contact with local title companies. They have more records on line that your county recorder does. Maybe they would charge you something, maybe not. But it would save you a lot of time and trips.