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GreenPartyVoter

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3. We have in-service on Monday to prep 2 weeks worth of work for our area of Maine. Just

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 05:04 PM

Mar 2020

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an island away other schools are already closing. Nothing uniform here at all.

Edit: Just got word, more students in school. In-service is still on to brainstorm how to teach and feed our kids.

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Schools closing for two and 3 weeks? This virus is really going to be taking off in 3 weeks [View all] Quixote1818 Mar 2020 OP

I think so... Phentex Mar 2020 #1

Because the situation is moving so quickly that it's easier to start small and scale as we go than WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2020 #2

We have in-service on Monday to prep 2 weeks worth of work for our area of Maine. Just GreenPartyVoter Mar 2020 #3

Why NOT disperse people/students now and slow this shit down? BusyBeingBest Mar 2020 #4

Cause now we're just hunkering down with other sick people since there's lack of testing uponit7771 Mar 2020 #11

It will be much longer FreeState Mar 2020 #5

It depends on how overwhelmed our hospitals get and if the virus spread curve flattens out. Freethinker65 Mar 2020 #6

We could flatten out in the red, the hope is not to but we're going to hunkered down longer than uponit7771 Mar 2020 #10

Less than 2 weeks, IMO shanti Mar 2020 #7

THANK YOU !!! We're hunkering down now because we don't know who's sick !! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #8

Yes but no one is ready to pull that trigger yet. MissB Mar 2020 #9

UMass sent students home initially for 2-week period; Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #22

Just as an FYI - for what some schools are doing...Daughter-in-law asiliveandbreathe Mar 2020 #12

Schools in Ireland closed on Friday for 3 weeks initially but realistically they won't be back until OnDoutside Mar 2020 #13

This can't get any worse! It just can't!!! Initech Mar 2020 #14

Republican just told me that this will all be over in April, that's what SammyWinstonJack Mar 2020 #17

God I wouldn't get on a cruise ship right now if you paid me. Initech Mar 2020 #18

they'll have plenty of elbow room on that cruise. I see the travel industry recovering Demovictory9 Mar 2020 #20

2 to 3 weeks is just the beginning. Volaris Mar 2020 #15

+1, uponit7771 Mar 2020 #23

I'm guessing it will be extended. Crunchy Frog Mar 2020 #16

they are probably going to decide in 2 weeks, what the next step is. Demovictory9 Mar 2020 #19

Totally selfish on my part AwakeAtLast Mar 2020 #21