Yeah, my governor also put out a roadmap for moving forward. It's pretty well 100% focused on what can open when, to the point that even under the final "new normal (No Disruption)" step, you still stay 6 feet away from people you don't live with. There's also a lot of real vague terminology "physical distancing and safe practices" vs "open with adjusted safe practices" vs "fully open with safe practices." Are those explained? No. But the graphics are real pretty, so it's fine.

A friend just suggested to our friend with a five year old that they just drop her off at the zoo, since that will be open!

BWAH I would love that. "Here's $15 for lunch, say hi to the elephants for me see you in 6 hours!"

It would be educational.

A number of years ago there seemed to be a wave of parents doing something like this - they'd drop their kids off at a library or toy store and then go on to do something they didn't want to haul the kids along for. This may have been the source of a sign I've seen reading something like, "unattended children will be given espresso and sent home with a puppy".

Being raised by the zoo can't be worse than being raised by wolves, right?

Depends on who, at the zoo, is doing the raising.

I guess hyenas might not be so good

Or pythons.

several months ago there was some grandparents with their grandsons in the store, the boys kept going up the escalator and back down in a loop and they started running and rough housing and I had to say "Please don't run!" a bunch. And another employee overheard the grandparents plan to let the boys play on the escalator while they shopped up stairs. I think right about this time I finally said "please don't play on the escalator" and the grandparents shot me a dirty look.

One of the reasons I don't expect we'll be opening the libraries as public spaces anytime soon is many people already treat the public library as child care. At ages that are really not appropriate.

I just got word that my community college course will be online only in the fall. We should have the funding to send some home lab kits to the students. Meanwhile my summer contract got upgraded to full online lecture/lab for 6 credit hours instead of the original 3 for just the hands-on lab it would normally have been.

The uni is making contingency plans for online for the fall, and even if classes are held on campus, numbers per section will be drastically reduced, meaning more sections to be covered.

All of my grades for the spring are in, and my students did much better than I expected going in. It took awhile for many to get their feet under them, but in the end most of them got the required work done.