Everything posted by smoky
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Lincoln Riley thinks Tom Herman is a "brilliant coach" and says 2020 is "the best year ever"
Lincoln Riley laughed when he heard Luby's was going to have to sell all their assets.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
Dallas moved theirs to May. Austin still on for Feb, as of now with a list of precautions/ possibilities on how it'll be run.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
For those of us in AISD were supposed to self screen at home before coming to school each morning using the app. The AISD app asks if you're experiencing covid related symptoms: fever, chills, cough, etc. It lists all of them, but then the last symptom they ask is "not feeling well in general?" And the next question is "have you been around anyone in the last 24 who's had any of the above symptoms?" That's like every other day in my house... In short, we need cheap, rapid results that can be administered easily if we're going to get through the Fall. Also, the app asks different questions in iOS vs android.
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Hey, Tim and Spencer...
Tim Brando brings his wife with him on work trips.
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Game Thread: Horns v. Raiders
Tim Brando sucks
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Game Thread: Horns v. Raiders
Hoo hoo
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Game Thread: Horns v. Raiders
So the obvious noncall penalties on us are egregious, but the ones on them are silly and two steppy
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Game Thread: Horns v. Raiders
Are we allowed to tackle during a pandemic?
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Game Thread: Horns v. Raiders
"play ja ja ding dong!"
- KState at BlowU - 11 am CST - Fox
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KState at BlowU - 11 am CST - Fox
Will they start our game on raycom or some shit?
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Running thread of the disaster that is the new school year
I agree, but the endgame should also be communicated. October 5th is the start of the "transition period" in AISD but they haven't really said what we're transitioning towards.
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Running thread of the disaster that is the new school year
Not knowing what your circumstance is, but what's your family's metric that it's safe to return face to face?
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
So the data they're collecting in the survey will be shit data. "See, no one wants to return to the classroom"
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Running thread of the disaster that is the new school year
I think there has to be a tipping point for the teacher to switch and start addressing the people physically in the classroom. But it'll take enough people to elect to come in even if the message is "zoom in the classroom" Eventually, teachers will resort to being teachers and start teaching to the physical kids with a camera broadcasting to the physical kids. It'll happen naturally as long as there are kids in the room.
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UT Emails ... Make it STOP!
My text from Emily had no link. I feel like sloppy 85ths. She didn't text me until 12:55
- New Site Motto
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
The City/ County is currently using 7 day average hospitalization rates as their metric to either ease or restrict activities. Many other organizations use that same Staging Levels to determine when it can do things. Scouts, Little League, Schools, Libraries... all of these things can be done in safe ways, but as of right now everything will be on hold until we move to the next level. To get to Stage 2 in Austin, we need to be well below 10 hospitalizations per day. That's a small window. Agree with Brad that every metric is looking great currently. We need to use that momentum as advertising that what everyone has been doing over the past month is working and to keep it up. Carrots need to be dangled in front of people to keep them moving in the right direction. We need to be marketing this situation as "You want that? Keep doing this."
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
So they don't count. Got it.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Both?
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Have we figured out what counts as a covid hospitalization? Meaning if an asymptomatic, expecting mom comes in to deliver a baby and tests positive, is that a covid hospitalization? Or just a mom and her newborn? That situation is going to be a fraction, but I don't see those situations going away.
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
I keep thinking no fans will be the norm, but we keep getting closer to the 12th without many of these announcements.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
We were under the hospitalization threshold for Stage 3 for weeks before it was official. Even if we hit the under 10 hospitalizations metric, don't get too excited. I wouldn't be surprised if the metric changed as Dr Escott recently cited positivity rates for some school metrics.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
I thought we had moved to the more nebulous "positivity rating". edit - yeah, the reason Brazil is thinking of 5, is that it's 5% positivity rating. Atom was remembering the old metric of less than 10 hospitalizations per day for Stage 2. also, travis county wants to make sure that it's under the metric for all ethnic groups before moving stages. So we could be under 5% positivity rating for a while before they officially move.
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Running thread of the disaster that is the new school year
You send K-5 back in person and middle and high schools stay virtual/ hybrid for the next couple of weeks and see how the phase in approach goes. High School can be done virtually for a while, 1st grade can not.