In a Time of Pandemic

This is me having FINALLY (after two weeks of trying) gotten a COVID booster after SO MUCH runaround from pharmacies.

We have HMO BCBS, and we went to our regular Walgreens first, and they told us oh no, they don’t offer the COVID booster for HMOs, the HMOs contract with CVS, and they sent us away. Then Kevin got on the website / phone with BCBS (note that he HATES talking on the phone to

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Pivoting Online

Well. I sent my students an e-mail this morning letting them know we were pivoting to online today, because I don’t have the PCR results back, and I don’t want to risk this cold actually being COVID and my bringing it into our (fairly small and close quarters) classroom. That is all well and good.

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Everyone On Campus Must Be Vaccinated and Boosted

The U of I system just sent out a note that they’re requiring everyone on campus be vaccinated and boosted; decisions about masking will be made by each campus individually, and we don’t have word on that yet. We’ll be discussing appropriate mitigations for OPRF at the next D200 high school board meeting in a

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Stupid Cold

My head is not doing well with this stupid cold (coughing, sneezing, stuffy head, the works); I could take DayQuil and power through, or try to teach on Zoom to be less communicable, at least, but I have not actually cancelled a class yet this semester, and I’m going to set a good example of

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