I woke up Friday with body aches all over but didn’t feel otherwise sick at all. I took a home test and it was negative. I started feeling like I had a cold over the weekend and this morning woke up with a sore throat so I tested again. A bright pink line showed up super fast today. Ugh. This is the first time any of us have had it. It just feels like a cold to me so far. Not the easiest cold but not as bad as some (definitely not as bad as the flu for me). We’re all boosted and so far everyone else feels fine. I’m really hoping no one else get it, so I’m taking over the master bedroom until I test negative. Hope you and your Dh are back to 💯 soon!

https://youthsociable.com/sitemap/all-cities-hotels/washington-dc/amp/ This showed a few. I checked the Holiday Inn one and it says the policy is just 18 and over.

I did what Jean said. Ds and a friend went to an Elton John concert years ago out of state. I called and spoke with manager and there was no issue checking in. They hotel had my credit card info and I informed the manager that Ds could show his own credit card as well.

Dh and I are pretty equal usually on who drives. We love road trips and switch drivers pretty much every time we stop for gas and such. He has been driving more recently because we moved to Chicago and I wasn’t very comfortable at first, but now I’m good to drive solo or with him. It’s never been an issue with us.

We prefer Honeycrisp over Fuji, but most of us in this house are team Pink Lady.

It’s only Dh for me. I stopped trusting many people when oldest came out six years ago and haven’t really allowed anyone new in yet.

I honestly think part of the problem is that after these things happen so many write off survivor’s experiences just because they’re kids. It may be why more and more of them, no matter their age, want to talk and get the stories out, because none of the adults in charge are actually doing anything to change it.

So, let’s not call the cops cowards because we don’t really have all the facts and it’s a valid excuse if they just didn’t want to get shot, but let’s talk badly of parents and reporters for allowing some of the kids to tell their stories? I may not like most reporters but at least they’re just doing their jobs unlike the law enforcement officers who ignored everything they were supposed to do and just let children be murdered. Maybe those kids and parents want to make sure the truth of what happened gets out instead of waiting and letting the police completely cover it up? Or maybe we should just let them process this however the heck they want and not judge them for it.

They’re saying the Border Patrol agents who went in did so on their own.

Oh, I agree. I honestly don’t believe anything they say at this point because it just feels like all they’re doing now is trying to cover they assess. The officers there that day are worse than cowards because they even prevented those who showed up ready to engage and do their jobs from saving some of those kids. None of it makes sense.

I thought they already admitted that was their thinking because they assumed all the kids in that room were killed immediately and apparently they assumed he would just stay there. It makes no sense because of the ongoing gunfire and the 911 calls from inside. Every time I think their story can’t get worse it does though.

I think it’s like Sneezy’s been saying all along. What happened is this incident completely destroyed the “good guy with a gun” trope and none of them know how to explain the actions of those “good guys” since it didn’t go the way they thought it would.

I don’t know how to post the whole article but here’s one Twitter thread about it with parts of the article. There are others which show different parts.

I was just coming to post this. It looks like she had time to drive 40 miles to the school, be put in handcuffs, talk her way out of the handcuffs, and then go get her kids herself. WTAF were the police doing?

There are actual videos of how the police interacted with the parents while the shooting was happening.

I don’t know what to make of the stories and videos coming out regarding how the police acted. I also don’t know that we’ll ever get the truth but what I’ve seen and heard makes me very angry. Unless big changes happen, we know we’re going to have more school shootings and I don’t get how anyone sends their kids to school knowing there’s a good possibility the police aren’t going to do what you’ll expect them to do. These teachers and kids are really on their own.

I also wanted to address that I don’t really get how adding school security in the way of metal detectors and buzzers will really do anything. If someone wants to shoot a bunch of school kids and can’t get into the building, they just have to wait in the parent pick up line, at one of the bus stops, or go in a window. If a shooter wants the notoriety of killing school kids there will still be ways to do a serious amount of damage. It won’t stop until people start voting for those not of a certain party but too many actually believe God doesn’t want them to do that (I actually think He is livid they are being so stupid).

I really don’t understand how some keep talking about arming teachers when trained, armed police weren’t able to stop him for almost an hour. Some of the stories seem to suggest police were too afraid to go in so how in the heck are teachers supposed to stop these people? Most of my family are teachers and none of them would be useful with a gun in a crisis.

I grew up in small town Texas. We had shotguns on a wall rack with ammo underneath. They were used only for hunting and never locked away. We also had one handgun in my parents nightstand for protection (that was never used) but also not locked away. This was the norm for pretty much everyone, including my grandparents and other family, where I grew up but there were no mass shootings. There were a few suicides though. Those same kids I grew up with that still live there are very different today. Their social media is terrifying to me. It’s full of talk of how no one will take their guns and how if someone tries to do anything, even the smallest of things, they will “take them out”. They also have way more firearms than any of us had growing up and way more powerful ones as well (they get their kids AR 15 type guns). I have stopped talking to basically all of my childhood friends at this point because I don’t understand who they are at all anymore. It’s crazy to me how much it’s changed and I still don’t understand why or how it happened.

One of my dc’s high schools in Florida was mostly all outside. There were no hallways because there were just a bunch of different buildings with classrooms and each had an outside door. There was no way to have any security other than the one armed officer they had. Their other high school was huge and did have buzzers at the main doors. It was so big though that there were many other ways to get in without having to use the buzzer. I just don’t think most schools can have really have the security they need these days.

It’s been reported the shooter was from there and went to the high school.

I don’t think it’s been confirmed but I’ve seen it mentioned maybe a handgun and a rifle. Some are reporting he purchased two long guns on his 18th birthday (which would be legal in Texas). So many keep using different descriptors and such and I just don’t think they really know.

It’s now 18 children dead. They reported his grandmother was airlifted to a hospital and is still alive. This country really needs to do something about gun access but I have zero hope we will.

It’s so weird to me to hear others say things about the other side at this moment in time. I was a die hard Republican until 2016. I am from a family that rubbed elbows with these people and have met past Republican presidents and thought they were good people. Things have changed! I don’t understand those who don’t see it.

Ds, 22, is engaged and lives with girlfriend. They know each other’s passwords. I asked Ds because I wanted to know if I should expect girlfriend to see anything I send. It doesn’t bother me but is good to know. Dh and I know each other’s and I would think it’s weird for us to restrict the other from it. Anyone who knows me also knows I share everything with dh (he is the same way) and it’s not been an issue.