Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

So does that mean all 82 kids who tested positive in this one summer camp are all A-OK and none got sick? Does the Governor know?
How a Christian Summer Camp Ended Up With 82 Cases of COVID

 

Fauci will throw out the first pitch at Thursday's Nationals-Yankees game.

Fauci to throw out first pitch at Nationals opener

 

Gotta give them props. They hosted a Trumpist klan meeting (GOP quarterly meeting or some such thing) a couple of years back, and they invited Trump to throw out the first pitch in 2017. (He declined.) But they're making up for it.

 

Defending Las Vegas RNR Marathon champ may have it. He’s on a vent with significant lung damage.

How to support ultrarunning champion Tommy Rivers Puzey - Canadian Running Magazine

 

Florida teachers have escalated against DeSantis. I don't see Florida courts helping out teachers here, but this was coming given how DeSantis wants to pretend like nothing is wrong in Florida.

Florida's largest teachers' union sues state over reopening schools

 

I'll be an interested observer. The 1968 state supreme court ruling prohibiting the union from striking obviously takes away their heaviest hammer. And a Republican-dominated legislature in Tallahassee won't be too compassionate. But some pressure from the NEA and AFL-CIO would certainly be welcome, especially given the GOP's decision to hold their rally in Jax.

Georgia and North Carolina are "right to work" states with no teachers unions to speak of. The Georgia Educators Association has no more sway than the local PTA, sadly.

 

Sick outs. Ten percent of teachers calling in sick stops any school in its tracks. Or, just wait until a teacher gets the virus and walk out en masse. Non-unionized teachers did that in several states in the last two years over pay and working conditions. Send notes home the first day of school. Just so you know, little Johnny (or Jenny) isn't safe here. In fact, send the notes now.

 

I just read up on the statewide strike in February and March of 1968 which led to the court ruling. We didn't move back to Florida until September, so I wasn't affected as a kid. But that was pretty ballsy at a time when southern states were still segregated, let alone pro-union.

And Florida's teacher pay is still among the lowest in the country -- I guess a "benefit" of no income tax. My sister-in-law found that out when she moved from Savannah (like Georgia's is so much better).

 

Alabama is worse - but what else is new? The unofficial state motto is "Thank God for Mississippi."

 

I think a good way to gauge whether American parents are planning to send their kids back to school will be how backpack sales fare in comparison to other back to school supplies.

 

Tax-free weekend here is Aug. 1-2. I'll be interested to see how crowded the parking lots are that weekend. Normally it's a madhouse.

 

Colleges Are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students