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My wife's grandmother's brother passed away today. He had covid and was quite old, but i think that he had other issues as well. I've never met him so I can't say for sure. But that is the closest I've been to someone that died from covid.

At least it's the actual teachers from the school teaching what they would have, probably in a different way. It's first grade so most of it is early learning to read and do math.

My daughter's school was following the status of some measures the county is tracking for being able to have in person class. They had to go back to 100% distance learning like a week ago. So glad we had already committed to distance learning for the year so it didn't change anything for us.

Oooh my turn for stupid family stories. My wife's side of the family wanted to get together for walk around the neighborhood to look at Halloween decorations. There are 4 families that are all about in the same like 5 square mile community, so I thought it would just be them but it ended up being ALL of them. My wife has 8 siblings and there are 8 grand children between them. We get to this fountain in an outdoor area first, all masked up (4 and 7 year old no less). The first SIL who had Covid (fairly mild case without any complications that I know about. Oh yeah, she is temporarily living with the grandparents) like a month ago shows up without a mask and her 2 & 4 year old do not have masks either. Grandparents and other younger kids show up without masks either. 2 other SIL's and family w/kids show up masked, one who is very strict with precautions because she had bone cancer as a kid so she doesn't want to risk anything. 12 masked and maybe 11 that aren't. Of those 11, 2 are freaking nurses! They had to go back to their cars to get their masks after my wife asked her dad if everyone was going to wear masks. I was ready to leave if they said no. Everyone got them and put them on with lame excuses about forgetting them in the car except for one sister and her husband. They had their dog and said they would walk in the back away from everyone...My wife was talking with them about 20 feet away asking them to put a mask on so I couldn't hear everything. They were so inconsiderate and selfish with their own family that they wouldn't wear a mask for a walk. They didn't even have ones so they had to borrow them from the covid sister who had a box of disposable ones. We started walking and I didn't look back at them much and it was dark, but I'm pretty sure they took them off. AYFKM, how hard is it to do this for your family? This is the first time the whole family has been together since like Christmas. My wife is pissed and is all worked up about the confrontation because that is not something she likes to do.

Non-freedom unit 10 day forecast for my area. Freedom unit version.

That was our thought too, even though we are all working/schooling from home. Definitely hasn't been cold here 😛 Expecting 100+ temps again for the next three days.

My daughter had a 99ish temp for a couple days. So my wife and her got tested (my wife only to show my daughter that it was no big deal) I think it too 2 or 3 days for the negative results. We have all had allergy/runny/stuffy noses for a couple of days. Just normal stuff though thankfully.

Distance leading is tough for my daughter in first grade, she gets sooooo bored and just walks away from the computer. She drives my wife crazy talking to her all day because they are in the same room. My wife worked from home normally before and wants her empty house back. I don't blame her.

So sorry Galeigh.

No pay cut for us but the normally scheduled merit pay raises are on hold for a couple of months. I can't complain about how much they pay me already so not getting an additional 2-4% for a couple months isn't going to hurt right now. All the VP level and above got all their bonuses put on hold also.

Daycare's don't technically fall under the same heading as schools. One of the reasons to keep them open is for the people that still have to work at essential businesses. We took our son out of daycare, so at least we will save like $240/week on that.

Work is still happening, hospital construction site. We cut back to 1 person on site managing the contractors. I'll be working from home as much as possible and taking some stress away from my wife who works from home normally while both of the kids are home.