@debrasol @AliMCollins you don't have to caveat: planning should have started months ago. the board is more interested in chastising parents than accomplishing substance.
latest UESF video update says they want to teach synchronously for 2 hours. 2. is that for all grades? when do we get info?
@wooster Mine, they were like “you’re going to gag and then cough, ok? Let’s go.” I wonder if it’s more accurate or faster results or anything.
@wooster UCSF administered mine, the next tent over.
@wooster That’s where I was! So you did not get a throat thing and then nose thing? Full ~4” long stick?
Pandemic pregnancy: just got a drive-up COVID test to get cleared for UCSF L&D. It was full back of the throat and then back of the nose. It really does not feel very good. I’d thought testing had switched to some tiny swab.
@antoniogm SF children’s hospitals are some of the best in the country — our girl actually enjoyed the special treatment and efforts they made to keep her happy during recovery. Yours is in good hands.
@antoniogm My then-2yo had a surprise emergency appendectomy while I was on a 15 hr transatlantic flight last year. I got off the plane to get a whole string of update texts all at once. I felt guilty for not being there but also would not have wanted to get them in real-time.
@JulieScelfo Interesting that wasn’t offset by having to set calendar alerts to put kids into zooms, or constantly hearing 5000 micro-needs (“the milk cup I like is STILL IN THE SINK, mommmm”)
Pandemic as stress-reducer. Looking forward to seeing this paper.
One theory in here: pregnant women were less stressed, leading to fewer preemie births because we could just rest and nap. Second+ time moms wrangling kids during SIP: curious how many of you were more relaxed and serenely napping? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-01/why-do-coronavirus-lockdowns-lead-to-fewer-premature-births
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Few bills that pass through #CaLeg have as much potential to save lives as #SB793, which would ban #flavoredtobacco products, including menthol cigarettes & vaping liquid, from being sold in CA. Fruity flavors lure teens, risking creating future addicts. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-04/editorial-no-more-excuses-ban-flavored-tobacco-products
@MeaganBright Yes, and freelancing “consultants” are trying to fund a campaign so they make money. So cliche...and obvious.
Everyone should be suspect of the Prop 24 opposition. It’s all about hiding inherent opposition from tech companies who are trying to hide. Just watch.
International conspiracies, you know.
Winning https://twitter.com/ted_newton/status/1290469169054527493
@Revkin @JohnMashey I had 6 when I was a trader 🙂
@rypan @jffmsl @Erie @shawnbot Whole lotta people with zero kids to homeschool, who did not personally experience what it’s like to have the district absolutely *fail* (and then learn nothing from that failure) sure do have strong twitter opinions about pods.
@rypan @jffmsl @Erie @shawnbot SFUSD is a disaster. The board is run by identitarian incompetents. I am deeply sympathetic to people doing whatever they can to make this coming year work.
Lol. The parents of the U.S. are gonna need you to mask up, mmkay? 😷😷😷
END IT.
@MAXIM_MLA @SpiroAgnewGhost Oh my. It’s actually sad how easily you missed the point.
@jmschwab
Just so we’re clear, this is the tweet the Sacramento Sheriff “liked.”...from his official account...what’s that they say? When people show you who they are, believe them...or blame staff. 🙄
Earlier today, a member of our social media team was monitoring our Twitter account and inadvertently “liked” an article, which has caused concern among some of our followers. The “like” was not intentional and the issue has been addressed.
Aug. 11: Our next FREE #CovidRoundsCA webinar: The State of the Pandemic, Children and Opening Schools https://www.cmadocs.org/event-info/sessionaltcd/CME20_0811_GRCOVID #VirtualRounds #GrandRounds #CME #COVID19
@retornam this is on the desktop 🙂
laptop has its own tabs.
I upgraded my WFH setup with a second monitor and my number of open browser tabs has doubled as a result. I'm not sure if this counts as a productivity increase or decrease.
@zittrain @whstancil @ryanlcooper Amazon responded to WaPo calling them for comment on the issue by mass-nuking some of the worst offenders and then trying to pre-empt the story w/their own in Business Insider. 😉 FB took down some of the groups...others reconstituted. I'm still in a few, names change regularly.
@zittrain @whstancil @ryanlcooper i did some work a couple years back - joined the FB groups where reviews were brokered, got barraged w/offers for free things, particularly from China, often w/Paypal kickbacks. it's a prob for regular products as well as "info products" like books etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-merchants-secretly-use-facebook-to-flood-amazon-with-fake-reviews/2018/04/23/5dad1e30-4392-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html
@wesyang we gave up on basil, needs high heat and direct sunlight. my parents' place in NY grows amazing basil in summer. SF never gets hot enough.
@harryh My son learned in an afterschool program IRL in K but we did virtual chess camp for him this summer so he could keep playing. DM if useful...if he’s a kid who likes Zooms there are little 5-7yo clubs out there.
Non-COVID care has collapsed, with billions of dollars lost by hospitals and physicians constituting huge savings for health plans, fattening their bottom lines. But that doesn’t mean consumers will see lower premiums next year. #COVID19 https://californiahealthline.org/news/dont-count-on-lower-premiums-despite-pandemic-driven-boon-for-insurers/
“Why are they threatening our funding? I keep waiting for someone higher up to take this decision out of my hands and come to their senses. I’m waiting for real leadership, but maybe it’s not going to happen.”
"I’m sorry, but it’s a fantasy": Jeff Gregorich, superintendent, on trying to reopen his schools safely https://wapo.st/33hz4nN
@Expherience i would like to see more media acknowledgement of the role media plays as a participant in amplification. though, design choices/infrastructure for groups online took natural human dynamics (desire to find ppl with shared interests etc) and enabled them to go off the rails.
@harryh @alicetiara congrats!
While CA's avg number of new daily infections has been inching down since Saturday, Dr. Swartzberg cautioned that even if that trend continues, it will take time for the state’s death count to follow. “It’s not going to be pretty.” #WearAMask #COVID19 https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/30/coronavirus-with-california-deaths-surging-will-newsom-have-to-do-more/
Some online conspiracy communities behave like decentralized cults, operating in a bespoke reality. They very effectively evangelize using coordinated-activism techniques that social media has made available to any determined group. This thread dissects one in particular:
QAnon, the continuously evolving pro-Trump conspiracy theory, is good at Twitter in the same way as other successful internet-native ideologies—using the platform to manipulate information, attention and distribution all at the same time. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002781/kpop-fans-and-black-lives-matter/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1595820501
@sm Also now extremely committed to helping turn over the board - parents need to vote out every one of the unresponsive ideologue incompetents over the next 2 elections.
We will be lucky to have any clue what’s happening before start date. ICYMI: https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/With-a-new-year-starting-teacher-unions-and-15447707.php
@sm Homeschooling to supplement whatever the district pulls together. Our K class has a pod sheet set up, weekly calls, and is currently sorting out details on hours etc, families arranging by risk tolerance. We will prob do virtual + join for occasional outdoor field trips.
@jenyalissa @AliMCollins oh, we're at the strawman phase of the conversation.
our elected leaders are accountable. the end. 👋
@sm i'm so pissed about the whole situation. it really didn't have to be this bad.
we are trying to figure out what to do for the 3yo,I think i have a plan for the 1st grader.
#3 arrives soon so maternity/paternity leave at least gives some flexibility but...we want to be working
It’s Pitch Perfect and a chocolate chip cookie time o’clock #ThingsINeverSaidBeforeCOVID
You might argue it was further back than that, particularly given this particular instance was not even just a social media problem - it was a *media property* live-streaming in FB that drove most of those views.
@jenyalissa @AliMCollins The person with the actual power here - the person who voted to screw our kids - is the one chastising (“reminding”) parents now. That strikes me as problematic.
No, it was not this week. It was over half a decade ago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/this-was-the-week-america-lost-the-war-on-misinformation/2020/07/30/d8359e2e-d257-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html
@jenyalissa @AliMCollins And yet the Superintendent - the person best positioned to know - disagreed.
Here’s another article, from today. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/With-a-new-year-starting-teacher-unions-and-15447707.php
Also, judging ambition or loyalty of some VP candidates implies others are unambitious or can be controlled—both implications are offensive. Newsflash: They are all ambitious. They all have loyal relationships. They are all top notch. Stop it. #AmbitiousWoman
Contra Costa joins Beverly Hills & Napa/Marin counties in ramping up penalties for violating requirements. Other local gov taking that approach include Monterey & Yolo counties, as well as Costa Mesa, Santa Monica, Fremont & Manhattan Beach. #WearAMask https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/07/29/california-local-leaders-take-harder-line-on-pandemic-order-violations-1304189
