Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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OK this **** must be serious, she made this video from what looks to be a ******* panic room or a secret Taliban bunker.
There was an article in the DM Register today by someone in Ames . . .
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...y-trip-woman-shares-illness-story/5053605002/
I didn’t notice any SOS patterns in her blinking so she wasn’t being forced to make a statement.
That's actually really good information, and it feels like there's not enough of this kind of stuff out there.
a lot of people here are very supportive of closing schools, and I get the need for social distancing, but how do we deal with kids whose parents can't work from home? whose parents don't have enough vacation to stay at home? who rely on school lunches as their only true meal of the day? whose parents are forced to stay home and not get paid their normal hourly wage? to me, there are a ton of repercussions to this that could also get disastrous fast
The next step is to close restaurants and bars for a few weeks. The sooner we realize there’s a problem the sooner this may be over.
Those will be closing soon as well IMO. I think there is a national quarantine coming. I hope I'm wrong.
The problem is that it gets disastrous either way.
most schools have a plan in place for those whose parents have to work and ways to get meals to people.
There are lots of parents that have to work. But some will need to take leave.
maybe they can keep daycares open and strongly suggest that parents keep their kids at home.
Apparently it's cold there, since she's also wearing a sweater with another vest on top of that...
...indoors.
Not necessarily. I was talking to our daycare center owner Friday and she says privately owned centers like hers report to DHS. They do have to report cases of illness to state health but their operations are not mandated through the state as they receive no state funding. She said as long as they don't have any cases in the center she can stay open for as long as she wants. Crossing my fingers she doesn't have to shut down at some point, my wife can work from home while our kindergartner has to stay home but our not quite 3 year old would be a different story if we had to keep her home too as she requires a little more supervision than the older kid does.
I would guess Wintersteen will soon be announcing university closure and I'm hoping faculty/staff who can work from home will be encouraged to do so. That'll be a mess though, because there are many positions at the university which cannot work from home. Man oh man, how will they sort all that out?
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