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How is COVID-19 Affecting You?

Started By RushmoreAnts , Mar 13 2020 6:49 AM

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#201 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 1 2020 - 5:06 PM

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Yes, unfortunately California is a big hot spot for this pandemic so the state is a bit stricter.

So is the DMV region: District, MD, and Virginia.
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#202 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 1 2020 - 6:05 PM

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So apparently, a 102-year-old woman in Italy made a full recovery from COVID-19 after around 20 days in the hospital. Finally some good news  :yahoo:

That’s awesome! Good for her.


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#203 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 1 2020 - 6:12 PM

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Must have had a great immune system. We should all eat healthy and try to be like her.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans

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#204 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 1 2020 - 6:20 PM

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I’ll say. Yeah, we should.


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#205 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 2 2020 - 6:45 AM

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We are still allowed to walk around here. I am going to get worried about this country when they say that we cannot even move around...


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#206 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 2 2020 - 6:54 AM

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I hope we don’t miss parasitic Lasius if the state would declare a stay at home order.
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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#207 Offline Broncos - Posted April 2 2020 - 7:17 PM

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My school got closed for the rest of the year


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#208 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 15 2020 - 11:56 AM

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The new largest hotspot in the country is a South Dakotan meat packing plant. Great.
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Edited by AntsDakota, April 15 2020 - 12:00 PM.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#209 Offline Temperateants - Posted April 15 2020 - 12:01 PM

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I am running low on feeders, I am currently catching bugs in my house and researching how to breed feeders that I obtain a starting population in the wild.


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#210 Offline ANTdrew - Posted April 15 2020 - 12:10 PM

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I was supposed to start “teaching” online today. Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc. -that my county canceled the whole thing today. To top it off, random strangers were logging in to sessions. A HOT mess, to put it kindly.
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#211 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 15 2020 - 12:12 PM

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Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc.

Glad I’m not the only one who has a problem with destroying one’s body.

Edited by AntsDakota, April 15 2020 - 12:12 PM.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#212 Offline Mdrogun - Posted April 15 2020 - 12:56 PM

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I was supposed to start “teaching” online today. Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc. -that my county canceled the whole thing today. To top it off, random strangers were logging in to sessions. A HOT mess, to put it kindly.

I am a college freshman, but my younger brother is a Sophomore in high school. It honestly surprised me to hear how horribly unprepared so many schools were to go online. Do you guys do all your grading in a gradebook? When I was a Senior in high school our teachers used canvas to give out and receive assignments, as well as infinite campus to show us our grades in real-time. Theoretically, it'd be very easy to move to an online-only format in that situation.


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#213 Offline NickAnter - Posted April 15 2020 - 1:13 PM

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My online learning stopped for spring break. :mad: Even though we had 2 weeks when the idiotic district and state said the teachers could not teach anything online because there was probably one or 2 people that did not have a computer or internet. And all the teachers were prepared. Luckily, the zoom meetings we had were not too bad. But, there were people messing around(walking around, eating, playing on their phone), and most of the meetings were useless anyways. It's really annoying for me, because they will have to alter next years math curriculum, which means that it will probably always be altered, as it was multiple chapters missed. And, the math teachers can't even teach full lessons in a day because it breaks guidelines of 30 minutes only. Therefore, we go about 3 times slower. :ugone2far: :ugone2far:  :facepalm: All in all, I would say that the school district I am in is completely useless.


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

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I was supposed to start “teaching” online today. Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc. -that my county canceled the whole thing today. To top it off, random strangers were logging in to sessions. A HOT mess, to put it kindly.

My school sends online work and self learning, such as using textbooks sent home in the beginning of the year, newela articles, and various videos all mashed up into lessons crafted by the teachers. All the zoom calls are optional Q and A sessions or office hours


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#215 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 15 2020 - 1:31 PM

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Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc.

Glad I’m not the only one who has a problem with destroying one’s body.

 

What do you mean by that, AntsDakota?


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#216 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 15 2020 - 1:34 PM

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Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc.

Glad I’m not the only one who has a problem with destroying one’s body.

 

What do you mean by that, AntsDakota?

 

Vaping, smoking, dope.........


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#217 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 15 2020 - 2:31 PM

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It sounded like you do those things. I know you don’t, but that is what it sounded like.

Do you see what I’m saying?


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#218 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 15 2020 - 9:37 PM

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I was supposed to start “teaching” online today. Turns out the highschoolers were so awful - vaping/smoking dope on camera, asking obscene questions to teachers, signing in with names like Ben Dover, etc. -that my county canceled the whole thing today. To top it off, random strangers were logging in to sessions. A HOT mess, to put it kindly.

 

It's no wonder why the majority of the people in this country are so stupid.


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#219 Offline dspdrew - Posted April 15 2020 - 9:39 PM

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For those who think COVID-19 is just the Flu.


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#220 Offline FSTP - Posted April 15 2020 - 11:02 PM

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has your brother seen that video ?


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