Posted by a scientist friend, permission to cut-and-paste. I’m not stopping making cloth masks, because some people may be double-masking, or have budget reasons why disposables are challenging. But if you can upgrade to medical masks, please do. If you *are* double-masking, the surgical mask should be against your face, with the cloth mask covering […]
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Quick note as I prep for tonight’s school board meeting that we’ve added, per my request, a graph to the school’s public COVID tracker, that I hope will help people visualize the data more effectively. I’ll remind folks that although case numbers are going up dramatically right now, if you are vaccinated, you should still
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Grades are due today, which is the last official task of the semester, though I also have a ton of e-mails I have to deal with, many of them time-sensitive. My inbox is utter chaos right now, and it’s stressing me out. I’ve been thinking a lot about chaos and order, about how I got
I’m listening to Annalee Newitz‘s _Deep Futures_ podcast while I clean and decorate for today’s house party; it’s great company, if you’re looking for something historical and interesting and futuristic and weird. Second table all set up now for Alix Mikesell and her beautiful jewelry. Kev and the kids and I waffled for a while
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Boosted yesterday! No side effects aside from a sore arm (still sore today when I press on it, wouldn’t notice it otherwise). IMPORTANT NOTE for Americans: Boosters were approved on Thursday for 16+ age group. Please take your 16+ high school student for their booster! Was easy to schedule booster — jumped on Walgreens site,
It really is a little tricky taking selfies that show both a mask and a skirt. But I have persevered, just for you — it’s Monday teaching’s pandemic fashion, and we’re clearly going for the cozy librarian look, aka, “It’s almost winter, and all I want to do is fall asleep in a stack of
Pandemic teaching fashion this Monday is mostly me being cranky that I don’t have a solid brown or grey mask on hand, and trying to figure out if I have time to make one before I have to drive in (short answer: I do not). But I do like this outfit otherwise; it’s v. cozy
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I wouldn’t say the grading all got DONE this morning, but I got enough of it done that I could go in and teach in good conscience. I should be able to finish it tonight, if I don’t fall asleep — I promised the students I would, so I may have to have Jed and
We were talking in class today about mask-wearing and risk assessment, and at one point we transitioned to my feeling a responsibility to wear a mask to protect my students, in much the same way that at the start of every semester, when I walk into a new classroom, I take a minute to figure
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I think it’s not so much that Kevin and I disagree on risk, exactly. I actually suspect we both think the effect of mask wearing in our highly-vaccinated local population is fairly marginal, especially in our own house, with vaccinated close friends whose family and work patterns we know. It’s more that we ‘weight’ things
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