I start today’s post with an Arts and Entertainment recommendation. Last week my friend, RT, messaged me and said to get the new Bob Dylan album “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” so I did just that and man was he right on. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard charts, setting a new record for Bob. He now becomes the only artist to have achieved a top 40 album in the United States in every decade since the 1960’s. I kind of lost it with Dylan over the last 20 years or so, as I didn’t think his later albums compared at all to the ones he produced in “the good old days.” This album has brought him back to me. Don’t just trust RT and me on this one, read this review from Rolling Stone, “at 79 he’s still channeling cosmic American mysteries like no one else in music.”
Okay, so last week I mentioned that I was so lucky to be retired and not having to deal with the logistics of getting schools reopened this fall. Now I’m thinking about how lucky I am that I don’t have a school age child and have to make a decision about sending her or him to school in September to meet the expectations of Betsy and Donnie of showing that everything is just hunky dory. Today I saw a post from a retired teacher with lots of questions that I won’t take credit for because she put a lot of thought into this before I even started thinking about it. So here goes,
• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks?
• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?
• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids’ families need to get tested? Who pays for that?
• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine?
• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?
• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?
• What if a student in your kid’s class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?
Hey, Betsy Devos, can you please give us some answers? Yes, I know you’re about as smart as a sack of cement, so I’m not expecting a cogent response to these questions. You showed us what a tool you are yesterday on the Sunday morning telecasts. It looks to me like she’s puttin’ on the same makeup that Donnie boy uses.
Just another day of “same shit, different day” so keep on smilin’ and stay safe and healthy! Ziggyman
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