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when UM went remote fall '20, the admin was surprised to find the students all came to campus anyway and did a fine job of passing Covid around without ever going to class. With little to no transmission documented in classrooms, they've decided there is little point to going remote now. I guess we will see if that is still the correct logic for Omicron. With a 5 day quarantine, an asymptomatic positive test won't cost a student much class time. For me, the risk walking around the rest of A^2 right now is higher than it is on campus.

Regional manager (step below a VP) at a Fortune500 (my boss's boss) was a good guy and he had no illusions about the fact that even at his level (maybe even especially at his level) the company was most definitely not his friend. He wife's long term health was not good and he had been counting down to retirement for a number of years but couldn't go early because he needed to keep his health insurance (pre ACA days....). So he puts a screen saver on his company laptop that counted down the days, hours and minutes to "Bob's Retirement." Then he forgets to shut it off at a regional meeting when he had a presentation to make. Divisional Prez was not amused when it flashed on the screen, but Bob actually was too valuable to fire over it. ⏲️

ROTF!

I dunno if he is in Bill Walton territory yet but you don't like seeing big men with bad feet.

So now we have to solve all the world's problems before we have an effective public health regime in the US? I don't think so. But if you want to join the Peace Corp and get out from under that terrible job to make a start on on them, go for it!

the Pfizer therapeutic could be a big help if they can get distribution up and running, but with testing so backed up too many people will probably end up missing the window for its best use.

way back in the dark ages, Government recognized that with nothing but a profit motive, mass media could easily degenerate into a socially destructive force, so they required media to act in the public interest as part of the licensing process. It wasn't a perfect solution, but the fact that the Gov always held the hammer of being able to revoke a license still had a powerful effect - to the point that media companies didn't even operate their news divisions as profit centers. If conservatives are so hot to get back to 1950's values, that was one of them.

I guess I don't see the point of stating what is "usual." It's been 102 years since anything like this hit the US, so 'usual' is not the order of the day.

Cade is a guy that should enter the portal. If you believe the press about him he may be too stubborn to though. He could have some fun finishing his eligibility as number 1 somewhere else.

The tongue in cheek through the 1st half and the set up with Harris was a funny premise. Lot's of little digs at Hollywood, the gaming industry, therapy etc. The IO stuff with Pinkett didn't work very well (Pinkett wasn't up to it either) and the whole saving Trinity in the POD farm was kind of a mess. Also would have been appropriate in the Trump age for the movie to have just ended with Harris' "Sheeple" speech, but the fans in a lot of places probably wouldn't have liked that! To me maybe the biggest miss was they couldn't quite make up their mind whether Neo got his mojo back or not. Tried to have it both ways a bit too much. But anyone expecting a film that took itself as seriously as the 1st series will be disappointed. This film runs much closer to parody.

LOL - I've always figured the water drinking advice must have gotten its legs in SoCal. But SoCal is a desert - you DO need to drink more water if you live where it's hot and dry!

I think Leelenau is higher but yes Washtenaw has the highest vax rate of any large county - and new cases are running at about 175 per 100K, which is much higher than Wash Co has seen at any previous point. Omicron is simply racing through both vaxxed and un-Vaxxed populations. I saw one report from the UK that estimated that the booster no longer prevents someone from becoming infectious in as little as 14 weeks out from receiving it. OTOH, boosted individuals do still appear to have a far lower probability of suffering serious symptoms.

you could see the air letting out of the Wings' balloon about the last third of the 2nd. Caps had better legs through the 2nd half of the game.

gonna get ugly for Cinci in the 2nd half.

Rogers and Turnbull will be like having extra high round picks in '23

Yeah - but it's a dry cold......

I had to wear one pretty much 40 hr/wk starting last winter term, the key for me was masks with two soft cloth ties around the head. Take longer to put on, but so, SO much more comfortable than behind the ears or elastic around the head - plus they stay up. There are not many (any?) N95s with cloth tie backs, but I have seen hospital employees use cloth bands that hook to the elastics to achieve the same effect. Highly recommend trying cloth tie backs to anyone who finds other types uncomfortable/unworkable.

LOL - parents used to do that in the 50s/60s with ChickenPox.

yeah - I had caught a cold before we were planning to travel for the holiday so I tested twice to try have some confidence beyond the fact that the symptoms didn't play like COVID, though now with 'O' can't rely on that as much either.

One of the most cautious boosted people I know just texted me he is positive, trivial symptoms. May be in the future for a lot of us.

what surprised me with Seager is that his defensive stats were still OK. I sort of expected to look him up and see him at -20Rdrs and he was hanging them up because he felt he wasn't holding up his end in the field, but that wasn't the case.

Coach Sgt.Schultz! Maybe they are waiting/hoping for a negative Covid test.

If I invented the automatic transmission does that make me the worlds best driver? The clinicians who test a vaccine ultimately have more data about it's use and effect than the guy who designed its manufacturing process. One thing you learn working in a University is how narrow expertise can be. I don't know why this guy is off the reservation wrt vaccine use in children, and as I'm about to catch an airplane I'm not inclined to go down his particular rabbit whole to find out right now, but on general principle, being the inventor of the synthesis in and of itself gives him no particular leg up on the clinicians

Don't you get the impression that most American businesses succeed in spite of their management instead of because of it? Given the tools available today you could survey your employees at the cost of about 10 minutes of your exec admin's time and maybe get a dialog going with your employees? I'll give UM credit for that as an employer - we get surveyed by the admin a lot. I don't know if they use the feedback(!?), but they do solicit it pretty constantly.

Nobody cares about counting stats.