My concerns are Joe citizen calling in neighbors or whoever they see not conforming to Joe Citizen's perceptions of lockdown/ shelter in place.

A few hours ago, city of Bryan put out a press release re-emphasizing the rules and asking people to call BPD on the non-emergency line if they see violations. It was reposted to nextdoor.com to the Bryan neighborhoods. Not a big fan of their request.

Yep. My thoughts exactly. Imagine the reports from panicked citizens? The leaders of this community should be the model of calm, rational thinking. Obviously not.

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Typical politicians.....make policy with incomplete information. Snowflake population ready to panic despite lack of said data. Perfect storm.

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agreed - they think they can't be held accountable for going to the extreme on shutdowns/ lockdowns/ cancellations/ all online classes/ etc.


they should be held accountable for the destruction that is in their wake.

moving to online classes for TAMU in summer session = most students not in town = many businesses having to close.

I would just like for people to quit hoarding groceries for no damn reason at all

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-should givernment employees (professors. administrators. teachers/ city/county employees) stop drawing a paycheck to mirror the private sector? seems like decisions are easy when your livelihood isn't effected.

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I don't think there's an easy or uniform answer to this question. I assure you the average professor (my wife is one of them) has put in far more hours than usual since this began, preparing to start remote teaching this last week and getting grad students etc adjusted to keep working as possible under the new norm. But certainly some of the other positions you've mentioned aren't stretched in the same ways right now.

Of course, nothing will change while this keeps going. However, when it ends, I hope there's a post game analysis to identify those that stepped up and those that dropped the ball for one reason or another. Society is inevitably going to change at least some deal after this. Some companies will realize they can do more remote and will do so. I think many will re-evaluate their family's participation in the public school system. I hope we all don't accept this kind of government imposition on our lives as the norm and demand more data driven and precise rules to guide these actions.

Blame whoever you want, but we got caught with our pants down on this one, and we need to take reasonable measures to ensure any level of lockdowns is avoided to the greatest degree and that the inability of some of our public agencies to adapt is rectified.

A part of the way out of this was and always has been developing herd immunity. Singapore and South Korea have had much better results than almost any other countries by asking for social distancing but not having the extreme lockdowns we are seeing in the US.

The CDC (i.e. scientists and doctors) never even recommended that schools in places like Texas with no outbreak close down and go remote.

Yes you can't prevent exposure at some point

Agreed.

This needs to be called the Wuhan / China / Chinese Virus. Anything that constantly reminds everyone what government lied, kept it a secret, and unleashed this mess on the entire world.

And is now painting themselves as an international hero.

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get that teachers didn't have a say in how all of this went down, but it's ridiculous to think that we, as working parents, can just absorb another full time role while the teachers are just chilling at home monitoring FB and checking a few boxes here and there to keep up with who is participating and who isn't, all while retaining their full rate of pay because it comes from taxes, which don't stop.

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I know several teachers in B/CS and other communities and NONE of the ones that talk to are doing that. They are figuring out ways using Khan Academy and other programs to formulate an entirely new way of teaching their students when they are given a green light. From what it sounds like, they are communicating with each other on a regular basis in order to share ideas.

They are also highly stressed because they are worried about their students and the long-term effect this is going to have on them. Especially on the juniors and seniors.

I realize that not all of them out there are putting forth that effort, but unless you have first-hand knowledge that most teachers are doing what you're insinuating, that is a very ignorant an insulting comment.

Edit: Neither I nor my wife are teachers, but I'm getting sick of people...not just on here...bashing these people when they are caught up in the whirlwind like the rest of us.

It's baseless and ignorant.

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get that teachers didn't have a say in how all of this went down, but it's ridiculous to think that we, as working parents, can just absorb another full time role while the teachers are just chilling at home monitoring FB and checking a few boxes here and there to keep up with who is participating and who isn't, all while retaining their full rate of pay because it comes from taxes, which don't stop.

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I know several teachers in B/CS and other communities and NONE of the ones that talk to are doing that. They are figuring out ways using Khan Academy and other programs to formulate an entirely new way of teaching their students when they are given a green light. From what it sounds like, they are communicating with each other on a regular basis in order to share ideas.

They are also highly stressed because they are worried about their students and the long-term effect this is going to have on them. Especially on the juniors and seniors.

I realize that not all of them out there are putting forth that effort, but unless you have first-hand knowledge that most teachers are doing what you're insinuating, that is a very ignorant an insulting comment.

Edit: Neither I nor my wife are teachers, but I'm getting sick of people...not just on here...bashing these people when they are caught up in the whirlwind like the rest of us.

It's baseless and ignorant.

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AGREED!

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The mayors are blaming this mostly on the college students and other young people for the spread.

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They are exactly right

Was are HEB yesterday ( Saturday) and several groups of college age kids buying ton of beer/ alcoholic drinks talking about " corona parties"

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When I was an undergrad, I would have been at Skaggs doing the same thing! Now that I'm older and wiser, I had the foresight to acquire such provisions before the shelter in place order.

The silver lining is that these young morons are among the least vulnerable to the bad impacts of covid19, and they're probably just passing it to each other and building herd immunity for future generations. My advice today would be to avoid these young people by at least 10 feet anytime you see one.

Signed: A Former Young Moron

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Baseless? You mean other than the fact that my kid's teachers and my friends who are teachers aren't putting in near the time that they do when things are normal? Daily FB updates to their class pages of "lol enjoying the sunshine," "water day in the pool," and "bath day for the farm animals" solidify my experiences. A buddy is a teacher and has spent more time on the lake lately because there's nothing he can do from home. White knight all you want, but when he says things like "I hope no one wakes up and realizes what a joke this all is because it'd suck if they cut off the paychecks," there's obviously less work getting done than normal. You want to argue that things are more stressful at times because of all of the uncertainty, I'll give you that. But to act like it's an 8-10 hour grind now that everyone is stuck at home is laughable.

I get that there are juniors and seniors in high school that are getting the shaft, and that sucks for them. What I'm talking about, though, is elementary school. We just got a notification that all assignments are due by midnight tonight. That's crap, especially when they just email out a bunch of worksheets and check out. We've offered our personal Zoom account (with enough spaces to accommodate multiple classes) and got a "thanks but no thanks" in return. I get that not everyone has Internet, but for those that do, why not spend an hour or two teaching on Zoom and helping go over assignments? If the concern is finding a way to teach, there are extremely easy ways to do that that aren't being utilized.

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Your argument is not with the teachers because we all know they didn't choose this. It's also a bad side of the argument to be on. By in large, we appreciate our teachers around here and the state of normal affairs is that they work long hours, have to sometimes/often dip into their own pockets for school supplies, and should be paid more. Now we're in a weird crisis situation, the teachers have had to stop doing what they normally do as a result of other people's decisions, and now some of them are enjoying a little slack time as the situation allows and some think it's right to come down on them.

The problem here lies with the administrators who clearly didn't have a plan for a 2-week disruption much less a potentially several months long disruption. I suspect the teachers are either getting very little direction, or direction that does not include what you want them to do.

I also think a lot of people are coming down on teachers (and others) out of petty jealousy, ie - "I gotta work hard now/can't work now and the teachers are still getting paid for doing less!" This only makes things worse.

I am not a teacher, nor is my s.o., nor do we still have kids in school here who are/are not getting screwed by all of this, but we still pay our property taxes.

Plan a school restart 1 May, run through end of June.
Assuming the state somehow agrees to cooperate/coordinate.

Or even later restart/finish, if needed.

You are talking about elementary school teachers and you are disappointed that their teachers are communicating to them like that? One of mine is in elementary and I'm glad that the teachers are keeping in touch with them on a regular, friendly basis in that manner in addition to asking what they need as far as academics.

They need some sense of "it's going to be ok" at that age.