[AT] [External] Re: Covid-19

[Mogrits]

Spencer,

I'm sorry to hear of your loss and potential future loss of friends and
family. I agree with the member that said in so many words "enough is
enough, that ATIS is a place to read without all this garbage."

That said, I have two cents to offer: Barely any of what we hear about this
is true or settled. People have died, but they die of the flu every year.
How many months now has the death toll been between 150,000-160,000? It's
been a while. The virus has about burned itself out in the USA. It may come
back in the winter, or it may not. Who knows. The one certainty is the
hysteria about it will CEASE on Nov 3rd regardless of what's happening with
caseloads.

No offense to the respondent from New Zealand, but theirs is not a response
to be emulated. You cannot hide from a virus. Other countries will be well
and done with Covid 19 and NZ will become a new hotspot once they relax
restrictions.

Young folks figured out early on they have negligible risk and rightfully
so. That's why they went on Spring Breaks and the other nonsense of youth
months ago- it does not infect or at least affect them. So far there is not
one case of a public school aged child transmitting to an adult and any
youth aged Covid death is suspect at best. Teachers Unions are now holding
this Country hostage and by extension it's economy by keeping parents out
of work.

My personal opinion is if you have so much confidence in the stupid paper
or even worse, cloth mask then you wear your mask and protect yourself.
These cheap pieces of garbage take droplets which don't travel far due to
weight and aerosalize them where they go much farther. Don't tie a bandanna
on your face and tell me you are "preventing the spread". That is just
silly. Same with any other cloth or paper mask. Nothing but social
conditioning for an illness with a high 90% survival rate. Does not
minimize the losses but does not justify hysteria.

And that's enough for me,
Warren

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 9:18 PM Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought it was a big upgrade when I got to go from a blackboard to a
> whiteboard.  And that wasn’t an electronic whiteboard, just one that let us
> use erasable dry markers rather than chalk.  I still have my chalk chuck.
> I use it in the shop to make timing marks easier to see.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> *From:* Mark Johnson
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2020 1:48 PM
> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] [External] Re: Covid-19
>
>
> These days, a teacher, especially at the college level, darn near needs an
> associate's degree in Electrical Technology to operate all the classroom
> electronics.
>
>
>
> I had enough trouble, 10 years back, as an adjunct instructor, just
> dealing with the electronic whiteboard in a small computer-lab classroom.
>
>
>
> Mark J
>
>
> On 8/6/2020 1:05 PM, Gunnells, Brad R wrote:
>
> Hahaha..well I'm not sure it's really a thing. It was easier to say that
> then to say the installed computers, switchers, cameras, microphones, etc,
> etc.
>
> It's surprising how complex some of these systems are. Multiple monitors,
> multiple projectors that show different inputs, software to record it all
> for later learning.
>
> Brad
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> *From:* AT mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of Jim
> Becker mailto:mr.jebecker at gmail.com
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 6, 2020 9:41 AM
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] [External] Re: Covid-19
>
> “Podium technology” There is a phrase I never expected to hear.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> *From:* Gunnells, Brad R
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2020 8:29 AM
> *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AT] [External] Re: Covid-19
>
> I had a friend call and ask to use my trailer to haul some furniture for
> his son going back to college. It's going to be interesting how this all
> unfolds.
>
> I work in IT at University of Iowa, so for me this work from home has been
> pretty much business as usual so I'm very lucky in that regard. I work
> closely with the folks that maintain the classrooms (due to podium
> technology) and they are equipping far more rooms to keep the class sizes
> down. In addition some will attend the classroom while others participate
> online.
>
> But as John says, the dorms and apartment complexes are confined spaces.
> And lets be honest, when Friday night and the weekend roll around, how many
> teen and 20-somethings are going to want to social distance? We saw
> pictures of Spring Break in the south. I presume we're going to see an
> uptick in our county numbers in early October.
>
> 2020 has been a shit-show of a year, plus it's an election year on top of
> it. I'll be so glad to put this year in the rear view mirror, things have
> got to get better....right?
>
> Brad
>
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