Monday, August 17th, 2020
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activities around MCPS school reopening plans, BCC HS reopening (virtually) and what this means for our students. Following initial periods of dissatisfaction with the proposed schedule, I have now after lengthy discussions with education experts resigned myself to the fact that it is what it is. I am still not happy with the plan, if students do go back next year, to bring Seniors back last. To me that is completely insane. Why bother to go back to school at all if the year ends three weeks later? Just to say hello to the building?
Concerned about our students having to compete with students from all over the world as the IB exams are the same all over the world, some of the IB parents have now banded together in an attempt to help not only the students, but also see how we can support our great IB coordinator. One idea is to see if we can form smaller study groups to help students help each other. A call has now been scheduled with the IB coordinator to listen how parents may be able to help.
Otherwise a largely uneventful day. Stand at 21.7 million. Total infections worldwide Somehow it feels as if the USA is making up most of the incremental increase of new daily infections, which in the USA today stand at 5.94 million and no one is talking about the 173k dead people. Instead the moron in chief has found a new cure to promote. Obviously, it has not been tested anywhere and on anyone. Suffice to say it is made of a – for humans – poisonous plant. At least there is a glimmer of hope as a study found COVID-19 immunity may be longer lasting than initially feared. And we may be closer to herd immunity than we think, as it may well be enough if 70-80% of people in densely populated areas Develop resistance. The most bizarre article related to Corona changes I came across is about a nudist/ swinger club beach resort In Jamaica reopening and the safety standards it is pursuing.
Socially distanced swinging seems an oxymoron to me, but each to their own I guess.