Community dinner

 The church that is across from my house has been doing before this mess a monthly community dinner. The dinner was very popular in the town and they most of the times were very full close to max capacity which is around 123 people at once. This thing started by a semi-famous local chef named Ouita Michel. The church has been trying to continue this thing partly, by handing out the meals while trying to follow all of the regulations right now. 

They took calls earlier to try to find out how many there about they need to have made. At around 5 or 5:30 my mom went over to help hand out some of the boxed up to-go containers that weren't reserved. The church handed out the leftovers on the street for anyone to pick up. While they were still there, me and my dad needed to walk the dogs and we happened to walk by there and a couple of people that was there started to pet them for a short amount of time.

UK Core Issue: How Do We Distribute Covid Vaccines?

I'm not sure entirely what is the best course of action to distribute the vaccine, I could see that a couple of options could be viable. I can see drawbacks, but positive stuff to almost every option that I am thinking about. My thoughts of this was with the notion of the vaccine being free. I'm thinking that maybe the best could be to split the vaccines to those that are apart of gen z and gen y(millennial), that way we have most of the working age to be able to hold up the economy and businesses for everyone. However doing this option would most likely leave out the most vulnerable people and they would have a harder chance to survive without the help the vaccine would be able to give.

Another option would to be able to give it those the front-line hospital workers first then go through with any of the other options listed here.

weaken immune system could be good so that they could have a better chance of surviving if they actually come down with it. Then if there's any left over give it to those that are working and have a high contact risks in order to lessen the spread and to help them if they need it for work.

elderly could possibly be the worst way maybe, but then they would be good and could possibly help lower the mortality rate and infection rate.

even could possibly be a good way to spilt it up, that it doesn't discriminate against anyone when distributing the vaccine.

cost: so if the vaccine does cost money then those that would be able to afford it, and then they would hopefully if there's any left to distribute them amongst those that are at high risk and then others at a bit of a reduced rate.

I think that the first would be the best option but that would be based on whether or not the thing is going to be free at least in the US. However if the cost will be a factor then the last one I would assume be the way it would be. 

Online class Math test and Among Us

 I spent Wednesday of last week having to take a Calculus 3 test. We were asked to join a zoom meeting to be on as we take the test. While I get why they're doing it, I found it a bit annoying because I had to have my camera on while taking the test, and it was slightly uncomfortable for me. Part of the reason I didn't like it that much is that the camera on my laptop seems to be bad. If I have my camera on, I would be cast in darkness even if I had the sunlight and an overhead light on in the room. On one of the zoom meetings with my family I was sitting on my own laptop with the video on and I was not very illuminated and my parents were sitting almost next to me on a different laptop and they were fine. This photo was some of my work on the test, I felt fairly good about it when I was taking it.

On Saturday, I spent a little bit of time to play 2 games with my parents and grandparents, of the game called Among Us. I made a discord server for us to do it on because I'd thought that that would be the best way, partly because I was watching some people stream the game and that was how they were doing it. However there is a slight mistake with that right now, the other people were on discord on their phone so I had to mute them myself during the game to try to make it better to play the game. I was possibly the only one to be on discord on the laptop myself so I had to split some attention to play the game and to be ready to unmute everyone. I will need some more help with that if we were to try that way again.

Social Media stuff

I've been watching this group of acapella called home free and they've done a song called Quarantine. This group has been doing some releases of music videos of songs while the members are filming their own part at their own part of the country and has been doing social distancing in the videos. I also like another song that they did was Everybody Walking this Land. You can tell by the videos that they have to adjust to doing things in their own homes, and do their best to record their own part and combine all of the videos to blend nicely.

There's a Facebook group that I became a part of, towards the start of this pandemic. The group is like a support group for some people in Kentucky, but there's some people in the group that are there even though they aren't from here or currently live here. The group is called Andy Beshear memes for social distancing teens. They started the group to show support for Andy and the decisions he has had to make during this time. The page has a bunch of great memes that have come out of the semi-daily press conferences.

there's another youtuber that is French and gives her reactions to things as well as to inform about some of the misconceptions about the French. She has also done a few vlogs lately to show some of France, mainly the countryside. In this video she talks about what's it has been like and some of the restrictions and some of the loosening that has happened at the time of the video was posted, which was about 2 months ago.

Watching Football

 So I spent this past Sunday tuning into the live worship service that the church does. The church was suppose to have a soft reopening for some of the congregation if they so choose to show up, but they had to follow certain guidelines for being there. 

After that I spent most of the rest of the day watching NFL, and being excited to actually watch sports again. I'm a decent fan of the Bengals and Cowboys and watched most of their game's that they played respectively. Unfortunately for both of those teams, they both suffered losses that were a bit questionable with penalties late in the game. I have some hope for both teams to have a decent season, but I think that the Bengals need a better line and the Cowboys need to play consistently with a bit help from Tight End's and secondary is needing help. Both teams had a few key injuries that could have possibly altered the outcome of the games. 

Continuing about Football, I really hate Brady so seeing that he lost yesterday I was happy about that, especially since it was the saints that handed him the lost, I happen to just really like New Orleans. My uncle is a big Chiefs fan, so them winning on Thursday was nice to see for him. I am hoping that the Steelers either lose or tie the Giants tonight, because I hate the steelers but also the giants are in the same conference as the cowboys so I want it a bit easier for Dallas to have a better chance at getting a playoff berth that is why I'd want it to end in a tie.

Food and Andy's Address to Kentucky

I think that my family has gone out and do takeout from restaurants a bit more now than before because of convenience. So our diet didn't really change that much but it probably got a little bit worse for myself at least. We have done some things that we make ourselves at the house. It seems that at the beginning we were a bit more active because we were walking our dogs a bit around town, but then the walks been getting shorter because one of the dogs started to have problems walking. So the distance has become a bit less, and now we partly just let them out around the front yard and then sit and watch objects pass by us for a bit until the mosquitoes get to be too much then we go inside. 

My parents work hasn't really changed much because one works for papa johns and volunteer at another place but they closed down, the other works for the state. My mom is still doing for the food place as a delivery driver and my dad has been working at home.

This photo was taken during Governor Andy Beshear's address that he gave to the residents and citizens of Kentucky having to announce that Kentucky has to report that we now have over 1,000 covid related deaths here in the commonwealth. I found that the address he gave was really emotional and sincere about having to mourn and remember those that we've lost around the world but also here in the commonwealth.  

Response to Pandemic and Trusting info

I typically turn to find information about covid at least for Kentucky's response from Governor Andy Beshear and the updates he gives 4 times a week now. I trust the team that do those updates that the Governor gives and for the most part the WHO, I don't really trust the white House because they are handling this horridly and dismantled the response team that could have been helpful and saved a bunch of lives. The white house team besides Dr. Fouci have given contradicting statements about it as well as not following their own guidance that they give.

I think I might know some people that are following the silly maybe faulty information given by the White House that also goes against what has been done here in Kentucky. I'm sad when I see people walking without their mask on because they are the reason that quarantine is lasting as long as it is and helping to cause the almost 1,000 deaths that has been reported in Kentucky so far in this pandemic.

I probably would say that it's the politicizing this pandemic and the responses that could be the most dangerous for people in the US especially those in Kentucky since we're a swing state that typically has the cities tend to be more liberal while the rural areas are more conservative.

This video is of me walking one of my dogs with my mom walking the other but wasn't shown in the video because they were behind me and the dog has some balance issues. I was around the church that was across the street from where I am residing. This one is a female American Staffordshire terrier mix named Selma.

Online Church

 With me being home with my parents, I've been watching the online worship services that my home church is doing. The church started to do online worship services the first Sunday every thing started to close on March 13 of this year. They started out with a bit of bad quality but that's to be expected, the average age of the church before this was fairly old, so it would make since that they weren't ready for it at the beginning. They have been learning but it's still sometimes iffy on the streaming technology front, some of my family, including me, could help them with the technology but we don't want to because we know that it's a bit of a time consuming task and it's not going to be perfect either way so we don't want part of the blame for issues. Also we know that saying yes to helping is going to make us be the reference for other similar tasks for a long time following that.

Zoom Meetings

 My family every 2 or 3 weeks has a zoom meeting to talk. We've talked about current stuff and asked about classes that the under 25 kids are taking at college or high school. We talked about several other current stuff like possibility of sports and some of the sports starting back in the next few weeks. The ones attending were my grandparents that live in Versailles Kentucky, my other grandparents that are outside of Columbus Ohio, and my Aunt and Uncle that lives outside of Chicago. My cousins didn't join but we talked about them and their school stuff, like one of them is in their school's band and they are sort of meeting. The latest meeting we've had was the day after the Kentucky Derby, so we talked about it for part of the time. We've usually talked for about an hour or two then decide on when we will do the next zoom meeting.

In Versailles, the public library does a writers group program almost every week that I've attended for a while now. When I was in the dorms on campus during the school year, I didn't attend as frequently but now with me staying in my hometown and zoom partly taking over the communications platforms the group is now not meeting currently in person but they are doing zoom meetings which I can be apart of. The meetings are fun, and still has the same sort of atmosphere as when I was going regularly in person, even though were are now online. My sibling, that hasn't attended for a bit, has now attended the online meetings so that's a bit nice.

Online classes on zoom have been fairly well, there's been a few times when people aren't muted when they thought they were.

Andy and class adjustments

 This is me watching the update that Kentucky's governor is doing. The rest of my family wasn't able to watch that day because they had to work and can't get off in time. My father works from home but he is typically somewhere else working. After I hear the numbers, I get out the papers we need to make the cranes and then give him about half of the ones that need to be made for that day.

My family also really likes the ASL interpreter, Virginia, partly because we think that it's fairly cool, as well as we a bit of experience in signing a bit. We really enjoyed it when they had the daily learning of a word or phase in ASL from either Virginia, Rachel, or Rachel(I don't know how they spell their name).

I'm doing my best adjusting to taking all online classes and trying my best to keep up with my work since i'm not in classes or in a dorm to keep track of myself more easily. The one thing I'm hoping to not do again is to not do my online homework for my calculus class because that hurt last semester especially after the switch to online.