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Scott's supervisor informed everybody at the shift meeting last week that they're trying to find out how to get everyone vaccinated. The plant is considered essential services since it's part of the food/drink production chain (they make bottles for milk and water and cider and other things), so we're all hoping that Scott and the other people working the factory floor can get the vaccine relatively early on.

Scott getting vaccinated will reduce my risk and Cordelia's considerably. She and I don't go out very much, so most of our exposure would be via Scott.

Work for Scott has been unexpectedly busy for January. They're still getting orders for cider bottles, and that usually stops at the end of October. This has meant weekend work considerably more often than normal for this time of year.

The local school district is hoping to transition back to physical classrooms starting in March. I feel like that's still going to be unsafe, but they want to start with pre-K, kindergarten, and special education, and those are the groups that are worst served by online classes. High school and middle school classes will go back last, and online classes are supposed to be available until at least the end of the year.

I have no idea how the district will manage a hybrid approach for high school and middle school students. March will be the middle of the semester, and teachers won't really be able to teach both online and face to face classes. The online schedule is very different from the normal high school schedule. Online classes start about 45 minutes later than normal high school does, and the normal schedule is necessary based on bus availability.

I'm a little worried that Cordelia will be pressured to go back to face to face classes because of the competitive choir and because of the peer connections class. The choir director will want to go back to rehearsing in person if it's even remotely feasible, and Cordelia can't get to the school without taking the school bus.

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I just defaulted on my Past Imperfect assignment. I regret it because I love writing time travel stories. I'm keeping my FFFEx assignment because it's partly done, because there're a few days more until the deadline, and because I suspect that it will be harder to find a pinch hitter for it.

( Cut for family illness )

Anyway, I expect this will mean that my parents stay in Louisiana all summer. I'm pretty sure that treatment will be easier in Baton Rouge than in Lawton. I suppose it depends on the duration of treatment and recovery/follow up. Mom tends to drive north alone in March or April with my step-father following in June, with the dogs, and that seems likely to be a bad idea.

Then again, two of her three kids are in Michigan. My brother's less than half an hour from Lawton. I'm two hours away. The pandemic and my inability to drive complicate any prospects for visiting, though, so I don't know that proximity to us will be a major consideration. If it is, I think that will be a bad sign.