What is beef mince? (And they have no ground pork at ours so I'll have to look at sausage. That sounds like minceis ground meat?)

I also ordered one early after seeing Karen Kingsbury's SIL mention that they checked the pulse oximeter often to determine whether it was time to go to the hospital.

I had no idea they were doing this. thanks!

My friends in Honduras (where they JUST started the school year in February) is thinking the poorer kids they serve are going to end up losing a year of school and having to take the year over next year. In a lot of these countries, it is normal for kids to drift in and out of school because of family needs so kids are not promoted until they learn the work. So they are already set up without the same outside pressures for kids to be promoted no matter what.

Also some areas are requiring masks. (And locally the grocery stores won't let you in without one)

If he's going across on I-10, he needs to be aware that some of these areas don't have a lot of food/rest stops in the best of time (we drove Austin-Phoenix,AZ-Tucson, AZ at Christmas time) And I believe El Paso is considered a hot spot for coronavirus in TX if I remember the last briefing I saw.

:( They may be down overall, but in my circle of acquaintances they are up. I normally don't hear of any and we've had two over the last two weeks. My sister's husband's uncle and a former's teacher's husband (Though Mrs. Bump stated this was caused by the stress of working to put his classes (He was a teacher at Houston Community College) online.

Our elementary school has half-round washing stations outside the restroom proper. (only toilets behind the door. So the teacher can monitor against playing around with water while waiting students are lined up) The middle schools have no soap in the restrooms though 😞

But only if they are -accurate- My sense is that testing has been dropped partly because the accuracy is not there. If people are going to get tested and then use that as their golden ticket, the accuracy of the test needs to deserve that level of trust. What we have doesn't.

We've always been protecting other people from our germs.

Whoa. I'm missing something. Hadn't seen that.

My husband is an essential worker. But if I went to the hospital he'd be "exposed" and unable to work anyway. So he could care for the kids. I doubt as much school work would get done though.

No we can't know in the US if the weaknesses they are seeing are likely to be long term or not. And I wouldn't call it a failing. It's the nature of a novel virus. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/more-bad-news-on-the-long-term-effects-of-the-coronavirus.html

My daughter is a 3rd grader and REALLY upset not to be seeing her classmates. Right now art (specifically Lunchtime with Mo) is the highlight of her day. Most days she sits down, she'll spend twice the time of the episode just drawing, working with the things he talks about. It calms her down and gives her a tangible thing to show off at the end.

And not just testing once -- multiple times. There's a reason you have to test negative TWICE to be considered recovered. (And even with that some have turned up positive later!)

I have put the phone number of family friends on the white board. If something should happen and both my husband and I end up in the hospital, my 12 year could call the Shumans and they'd take care of things as necessary. They also have my parents number they can call and either my parents or my sister would come and take care of them (Both parents and sister are 2 hours away so I feel the need for local friends as well as family) I'd prefer it be my sister due to the age of our parents. But I'll be in the hospital -- it's not my decision to make. (My daughter would NOT be well off in this situation. She already gets really upset when she's home alone *with her brother* for an hour and cannot get a hold of me.

Ours does Breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have gone some days and not others. (trying to stretch our supplies) It has varied a lot. The baggies of vegetables end up usualy being put into a soup with meat we have here. The sandwiches get eaten. Sometimes the cereal gets eaten. Sometimes it gets trashed. My son likes the fruit and the cheese sticks. The hot dogs were soggy and had a hard time finding people to eat them. The milk and juice gets drunk. My son liked the cheese "pizza" roll like things. So it varies a lot depending on what they send. we don't go often because we don't strictly need it and the room it takes up in the fridge we don't always have it. (we have to show some proof we have kids in the appropriate age levels -- I use attendance records for the school but birth certificates are also acceptable)

We watched It tonight with our dd8 and ds12. My son loved it. My daughter liked most of it but cried through the crucifixion (though I think that was more because she was afraid the actor had gotten hurt in filming. It was very realistic even though they did well at touching lightly for kids)

Oh? we have Roku. I'll have to look into that.

I really dislike folding sheets.

This is why we remove sheets in the morning.

I've been to two of their productions in the theater. I'm going to see if I can figure out how to get it on the TV so we can watch together.

Yes. Our tree did NOT land on our roof. But only by the grace of God. We have nowhere else to go local and I don't think hotels are open anymore either.

Underdtood until a tree lands on a roof during a spring storm and one starts to figure out how to recover

I grew up in the Aldine school district "in" Houston. I have also lived in the Greater seattle metro area. Houston is a beast of its own sort. (And evidently Dallas-Fort Worth is worse!)