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[deckeda]

"Your appointment is confirmed. Please print your appointment details."

But really, it was already being less-than-perfectly-healthy that allowed me to qualify. Ain't that a beotch.

I should not have dragged my feet, but then again don't know when this became readily available in my county. Chicken-or-egg conundrum with getting info out on this.

[edit to include sample headlines from local news]

"Newly-elected council member resigns" (he moved to just barely outside city limits)
"Two arrested in stolen van, pulling stolen camper" (self explanatory?)


3.1 miles away, at the fairgrounds, same place I cast my vote in November. Timeslots all open starting mid-week.

Expand your search to rural areas if you can. I really don't think anyone cares where you live or what your pre-existing conditions are. Please go get jabbed.

[Sarcany]

deckeda wrote:
Expand your search to rural areas if you can. I really don't think anyone cares where you live or what your pre-existing conditions are. Please go get jabbed.

My brother in law qualified by having high blood pressure.

His state registry offered him sites 90 miles away and more. Had his first shot last week.

If he didn't have a car and the opportunity to take a day from work, he'd have blown his chance.

[deckeda]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
Expand your search to rural areas if you can. I really don't think anyone cares where you live or what your pre-existing conditions are. Please go get jabbed.

My brother in law qualified by having high blood pressure.

His state registry offered him sites 90 miles away and more. Had his first shot last week.

If he didn't have a car and the opportunity to take a day from work, he'd have blown his chance.
That's me, hypertensive and with the ability to tell my boss I'll be taking a half-day this Wednesday and another half-day later.

Although actually, I can probably just roll both into my lunch breaks.

[deckeda]

And now that I will soon be even more pompous and righteous have started looking for "jabbed" masks.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/jabbed+masks

[deckeda]

Two lamentable items related to the pandemic.

1) The H.S. basketball team is once again at State, so as a dad it was a bummer weekend to know my kid wasn’t there, she having been forced to skip playing this year due to the school’s homeschool policy.

She and her mom watched a game hosted online and enjoyed it. My kid is more resilient than I am about such things. Maybe it was the wrong choice but I preferred to get some work done instead.

2) And today is her 15th birthday. To help herself celebrate herself she spent last night getting ready for today by donning one of those weird face mask skin conditioner things LOL and is today doing her schoolwork all dolled up with fresh nails and makeup.

It’s a remarkable age. Young enough to wanna play a form of dress-up of sorts but old enough to where it can be appropriate. “Dad! Come look at my makeup! You must loooooooook!”

However. Her grandmother / step grandfather invited to take her out to dinner but we declined. There’s no way to be safe in that restaurant. We’ve come too far to possibly get sick now. We offered to pick it up and bring it to their house but I don’t know if they want to do that.

[TheCaber]

Well, a very happy birthday to your daughter, D! And many many happy returns of the day!

[Sam3]

If you chose to be virtual at home, the school doesn't allow those kids to participate in sports???

That's horrible.

[deckeda]

Sam3 wrote:
If you chose to be virtual at home, the school doesn't allow those kids to participate in sports???

That's horrible.

That's small-town "thinking." They just barely were able to respond at all to the pandemic and trying to figure it all out on their own (i.e. the school board). Nearby school districts didn't do it this way.

First, they offered a virtual option which we might have done except that the edu package the school district bought did not employ any of their own teachers and did not include any honors courses. Full stop ... we chose to homeschool and buy our own edu products.

For the kids its been good because there's no live instruction, which as someone who works with instructors in my job can tell you that's only a good idea when done right. And my kids are not compelled to stay glued to a screen all day long.

But what the District claimed was that homeschool kids were a risk, and not eligible for any extra-curricular activity. Let that sink in. We're here isolated, masked in public (not that they care) and yet we're the health risk, not the families desperate to send little sniffling Johhny off to the bus so that they can go to work or not be interrupted at home.

My daughter, still receiving the group texts from the team she earned a spot on but could not join, watched team mates contract Covid throughout the year. She's slowly agreeing to join an AAU team to help keep up her skillset. We'll see how that goes. I want her to play, even though my gasoline expenditure is now going to go through the roof driving her all over the region.

[Sam3]

AAU might not be a bad way to go, it could open more recruiting doors than just sticking with high school. My daughter played volleyball and I kept on hearing that more college recruiters go to club tournaments than high school games and tournaments.

[Acer]

We used a public cyber-charter school for the majority of our kids education, pre-COVID, and have many friends and family in the pure homeschool world as well. YMMV, but in our experience school districts in general are very cold toward either format. It does not surprise me they made up their own illogical rules.

That said, among our homeschool friends, there is anecdotally a higher anti-mask sentiment.