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<DIV>“Podium technology” There is a phrase I never expected to hear.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim Becker</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=brad-gunnells@uiowa.edu>Gunnells, Brad R</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 06, 2020 8:29 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=at@lists.antique-tractor.com>Antique Tractor Email
Discussion Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AT] [External] Re: Covid-19</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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.</DIV>
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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.</DIV>
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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.</DIV>
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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?</DIV>
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