It is full hysteria mode now. Colleges are closing down campus and telling the kids to go home or at least get off campus. Any classes will be conducted online. Local (AK) k-12 was supposed to be on spring break, but have extended it by at least a week to allow teachers to gin up some manner of online classes while the custodial staff is swabbing down schools as quickly as possible. Would be better off with DDT in the hallways.. but nobody asked me. There is the possibility schools remain closed for the term depending upon how widely hysteria takes hold. So far only one truly infected person on the ground. Member of the flight crew of a “foreign” air cargo transport. Full contagion actions taken to sequester the offender.
SWMBA has had all her travel rescinded for the next six weeks if not longer. Out of an abundance of caution all the conferences and other meetings were canceled outright, so no travel to worry about. Her office purchased two of the jumbo cases of 90% alcohol dispensers and each desk has a half gallon container. She flew in to ANC in the early hours of this morning 0210 with a 737 packed to the gills with travelers out of SEA (connections more than likely). Her flight out of RNO to SEA had been fully booked as of Tuesday, but was minus 43 passengers flying out Thursday. The oil fields have their own charter flights, but now have “health screening” for workers boarding. As for me, the youngest child is going to be flying up from PDX at the end of next week for spring break from university. Campus has closed down classes and food service gathering spots, so any meals will have to be delivered to the dorms for pick up at the front door. Grub hub and Pizza delivery are getting a work out. School administration has suggested the kids not return to campus and remain home with parents or other guardians and complete online instruction. I just got off the phone with my 90 year old mother. She is self isolating, but running out of food and is on a restricted diet. She tells me there was a fatality in her town, her geriatric group is disbanded, the olde folkes homes are hermetically sealing up, but the weather has been nice and she spent two days this week playing in her garden. Pissed off that she voted for a Dem in the primary and that evening the candidate dropped out. SO, I have going to be stuck with an unemployed college child, in a town with diminishing employment opportunities, who will be trying to surf the web and attempt to keep up with online lectures on a dead slow DSL connection that on a good day will get 1.1mbps. Extended learning term for the Olde Phartes is supposed to begin April 1, but most of the venues have been declared no go zones for the aged and infirm. The drop in oil prices has yet to translate into reduced cost at the pump, because AK oil is shipped south to WA refineries, which are headed for nationalization by the socialist governor, then shipped back up for use on the road or as JetA. My $0.02 would be to allow the forest to burn itself out, which it will, given time. All this hand wringing will not have a discernible impact other than to crater things that would be better left chugging along. clay > On Mar 12, 2020, at 4:42 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > With all of these places closing down, our company is suspending a lot of > business travel and our scheduled company meeting at the end of the month has > been postponed is this actually real or people blowing things out or > proportion? > > Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
