Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

@bstacey same, I'm just having such a hard time processing what is happening. They are even saying that if you mailed your absentee ballot without a witness signature, as was allowed for about a day, you have to bring your own witness to the polls tomorrow to have them sign the ballot you already mailed.

I think this might be the first Wikipedia article that I've contributed from scratch. Written about someone I found in my family history. Something like 11 generations back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Felton

@ashwinvis That's good to hear. I think I might have muddled mine with a bad plugin update or something. I had been watching this update on the repo as it took them a while to get around a PHP issue.

@ashwinvis I just did that last night! Had some issues with it though and ended up uninstalling and reinstalling to make it work again.

Current status: On an MS Teams call with 90+ faculty and admin. So many unmuted mics and unnecessary video streams.

I manage the internship program for my students and we've now started seeing the COVID19 related cancellations of internship offers. This is going to be difficult to cope with for students trying to progress in their careers.

Made it back to the US after a long day of travel from London, through JFK, and on to Minneapolis. The extra screening at JFK was very minimal and quite quick. Now we isolate for a couple of weeks in an AirBnB. The kids might lose it being so close but not being able to see the grandparents.

We are slightly closer to getting home. My flight has now been changed twice due to cancellations. If the latest one holds, we should finally get to fly home on Wednesday. We'll be leaving out of London rather than Paris and now have a stop on the East Coast rather than direct.

There is probably a twist or two yet to come, but hopefully we are close. Of course, when we get "home" we won't actually be home. Instead we will self-isolate in an AirBnB for two weeks.

@robertwgehl that stinks! I'm currently working on ending my sabbatical trip early as well. Trying to get back to the US from the UK.

@VictorVenema
Yes, assuming no further changes before then, we should be able to fly. As long as the flight isn't cancelled due to reduced demand.

The market almost immediately triggered the 7% circuit breaker after opening. Seems like the president's speech is being quite well received.

@VictorVenema
We have a flight out of London next Wednesday. We'll see if we can still get to London by then. Currently in Edinburgh.

I think I just have one remaining conference that is still up in the air. I'm rather hoping that they offer a remote participation option or, even better, go full virtual. However, I'm guessing that is unlikely.

Then, within 15 minutes of each other, I get emails from our chancellor and Engineers Without Borders USA discontinuing travel. So that will clear the schedules of my students as well.

Today we decided to cut our trip short and head home next week rather than continue on to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and back to Paris as originally planned.

Watching how the US is handling the Coronavirus, I'm thinking my family might be safer if we just stayed in Europe/Scandinavia.

Watching it spread across the map isn't much better.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1yCPR-ukAgE55sROnmBUFmtLN6riVLTu3

Just watching the numbers climb and wondering about our upcoming flights...

https://outbreak.cc/