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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:49PM (#23707169)
I'm 18 and am working two jobs this summer, though I have had one for over a year. While I'm in development, I've got several friends who are working as lifeguards at a pool. It stinks that your son can't find one, but there are jobs.
Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by irrational on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:25PM (#23708053)
Are your pools still open? All of ours closed down at the beginning of quarantine and they have already announced that none of the pools or rec centers will open this summer ( and possibly this year).
Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @09:12PM (#23708885)
Open-ish. They've got physical distancing enforced, and some have limited hours, but yes. Water isn't known to transmit the wuhan coronavirus (and these pools are chlorinated), so I figure it's decently safe as long as people aren't dumb when out of the water. No lounging around on pool chairs, though.
Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:27PM (#23720774)
Follow-up: why the down-votes in response? I'm very confused given that my prior comment wasn't.
Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by Doxin on Friday July 03, 2020 @09:53AM (#23724028)
I imagine it's due to calling it "wuhan coronavirus" instead of simply "coronavirus" or "covid-19".
Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by collegeburner on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:03PM (#23725131)
Coronavirus isn't descriptive. SARS-CoV-2 is unbearably clunky. Covid refers to the disease caused by the virus (it's short for "coronavirus disease"); people don't communicate a disease, they communicate a virus. This is like the HIV/AIDS distinction: you can't "catch AIDS". Hence my terminology. Talk about petty, though. It's from wuhan, so calling it "wuhan coronavirus" or "chinese coronavirus" strikes me as more than reasonable.