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In-person classes in the time of Covid. 6 foot spacing and plexiglass shields. Almost all work done on computers to avoid touching things.

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 24, 2020 [SPOILER]

My son missed all of this. He graduated last spring (with the ceremony in July), and now he's waiting a bit before applying to a college.

Nicely done.

Awesome Belita. Not sad, but real!

And masks! You remembered the masks! Shields block aerosolized (i.e., moving, even just hovering in the air) air but don't filter it.

Actually, shields don't do much of anything, but maybe they make you feel safer. Thank you for the comments. I'm going back to 100% online, but I know there are some students and teachers still in the classrooms.

My Grands have In-person classes...highly regimented...so far all has gone well. All children are brought to school by car. Temperature taken before they are allowed out of car. Masks worn. Desks shielded on three sides. Special air exchange in use in all classrooms. Lunch is eaten outside and the students are socially distanced. The children are still so happy to be going to school instead of staying home.

We had in person classes at the college where I teach, with masks, distancing, testing, contact tracing, the works. It really went quite well. After arriving on campus, everyone was tested, and cases gradually declinded. For several weeks there were no cases on campus. Then there was a surge in the community, and students who live off campus had a few infections. But as far as we know there was no spread on campus.

Since people are tired of the precautions, I'd say only do what science actually says is helpful. Skip the shields. Don't bother washing surfaces. Its mainly about masks and distance and air filtration and symptom reporting and testing and tracing.

My middle kid, James, spent the semester at a college that had a long list of precautions. And it went fine! It seemed like a strange way to do college -- but better than no college at all, and he seems to be thriving there.

My youngest, Corbin, has online school only, and he can't do online school, so it is like an endless, endless weekend that has been going since March, with nearly no childcare, and I am tired. Sigh.

Harry, that sounds lovely! I'm glad it went well. It sounds similar to James' college.

Great illustration. Very understandable. Very doable. No guessing.

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