Three more days until I go back to teach. We have a mask mandate, and a non-insane governor, but I still dread it. Even if, IF, I don't have to deal with any Death Culters in my own classes, there is almost no chance that some professors and their students don't blow it off and loll around rooms that I need to use later, hacking up their plague gobbits.
I am not 1/10th as exposed or stressed as Trauma Babe or other medical people, but I am still fucking scared. Been having nightmares almost every night about first day of class, how to finesse total strangers into taking precautions without blowing my stack.
Contingency plans include
-- Having assignments already pre-printed to give the students to take home and do, so I don't have to deal with mouth breathers who work in the office, or have to stick around inside if it's raining.
-- Rain matters, because if it's sunny, we will have regular class outside, and I will get to know them from a safe distance.
-- Gonna hammer hammer hammer that we are following the guidelines, maybe I'll have some Prior Service people in the class who can explain what real masking (MOPP4) feels like vs this little cloth thing.
-- My classes are not officially online, but damned if they won't be if I detect any foolishness in the building.
Shit fuck dammit.