Yes! Silverwood is in North Idaho. They have announced their opening will be delayed, no set date to open yet.
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Good analogy. The same problems in each scenario, really.
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Goodness - northern Idaho
Sounds as tho the owners are sensible anyway.
Schools need to open, but yes also a potential disaster area. ok, so this is discussed recently in another thread in a different context. But maybe schools will have go to full year track systems. So kids go all year, but have different on/off schedules. This type of system has been used for overcrowding. Most parents hate this system; but it might be preferable to homebound school and regular density.
I saw your comments on the other thread. There has been some discussion about the summer. It is tough in the north east where none of our buildings have air conditioning. I think the schools will be willing to try anything to get the kids in the buildings-anything. Will a split schedule delay an economic rebound? Will it add to family stress? Or will 33-50% help?
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I was daydreaming yesterday about potential solutions to the school problem - one far-fetched idea that I wondered about would be doing boarding schools. Put everyone under age 25 in a closed campus for 2-3 months. The older teenagers and 20-25 year olds would be the counselors and teachers so at-risk individuals wouldn’t be exposed. Then the virus could be introduced so that all the kids and young adults would get herd immunity (like a giant chicken pox party). Once the infections have cycled through, you’d have 40% herd immunity and could open up more of the economy.
Like I said, far fetched, but I could imagine it working in an alternate universe.
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I’m not sure it’s such an alternate universe kind of thing. I mean, most parents aren’t going to have their younger kids go away for several months.
As to getting used to getting exposed, yes. That’s going to have to happen. NYC and a few hot spots are scary. Here in Missouri, most of us are staying at home - even before the “order”. Most hospitals have plenty of beds. I don’t know about PPE. It would seem on the surface that we’ve self isolated almost too well.
As we have more info about immediate symptoms/person, we can perhaps make better plans going forward. We’ll have to cross the chronic aspects bridge later. Pretty much all boils down to antibody testing.
We have a couple of months to try to get that in place - and ramped up to a meaningful level - to perhaps save the fall semester for colleges.
Another point: apparently folks have self isolated through out history during pandemics. And here we are, still. Possibly even having prospered.
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Yeah no. As much as i hate this homeschooling thing there is no way I would be doing that and set my kids off to be at risk for targeting by pedos and other abusers
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Yeah, there’s a zero percent chance of it happening. But sometimes you have to think of the bad ideas to get to the good ones. 
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OMG!!! Blast from the past. My favorite Podcast is back for a live stream.
It feels so nice to have the old gang back together again for another show. It is like they never stopped. This makes me feel so warm and cozy inside.
Loved it!
I am looking forward to future video podcasts!
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Yeah, I’m not sending my kids to a school camp/boarding school.
Would this be government mandated? Because you’d have to pry my kids out of my dead hands to send them off for edukation.
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Umm…
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That was intentional.
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On the other hand, this isn’t that far off from what they did in London during the Battle of Britain in WWII - a lot of kids were sent off to the countryside to keep them safe from bombings. Also, the British are more accepting of boarding schools as a concept. But there’s no way it would work in America, or most places these days for that matter.
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True.
But then I want MY kids to go to visit a professor with a lovely house with many rooms to play hide and seek.
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Like the kind with giant wardrobes and such?
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War Drobe. Yes.
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This week’s show:
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Wonderful!
Watched it last night. Need to make sure we let them know to keep it up. I think they still believe only 3 people are watching!
We should also put up some side bets:
- Which city will Len be in for the show next next week?
- How many times will we see Laurel in the reflections?
- How long until we see Len with a Mullet?
- Will we see Len buy and use a Flowbee on his “Bride of Frankenstein” hair?
- What background will we see Mike Newell use next week?
- How much longer can Annette last with only one role of toilet paper in the house? … can you spare a square…
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