COVID-19 Policy Update #141
COVID-19 Policy Update
TUESDAY 11/3
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE ELECTING
Understanding the Forecasts:
What's On The Ballot: Helpful cheat sheet of all races (state and national) and ballots across the country.
The Economist
Understanding Election Night Week
The Atlantic's hour-by-hour cheat sheet.
How Long Will Vote Counting Take? Estimates and Deadlines in All 50 States
Exit Polls:
Dixville Notch: Sweep for Biden-Harris. Also a great episode of the West Wing.
Just 1,188 days to the 2024 Iowa caucuses!
Understanding Each Other
Want to understand "media bubbles" and the echo chambers we self select into? Tristan Edwards created a tool that allows you to view what people see over Twitter based on their political orientation - liberal to conservative, socialist to alt-right.
Amanda Ripley: We’ve created cartoonish narratives about people in the opposite party. They’re not true.
Nisha Anand's Ted Talk on the Radical Art of Choosing Common Ground
Via NYT, "He Already Saw the Election as Good vs. Evil. Then His Tractor Burned."
FEDERAL
PPP: The SBA began asking PP lenders to issue over 50,000 loan necessity questionnaires to borrowers that received $2 million or more in funds from the PPP. Both nonprofit and for-profit borrowers received questionnaires, for which there are two different forms: one for nonprofit borrowers and another sent to for-profit firms. Our partners at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck have additional information.
COVID-19 RESEARCH
Physical Distancing By Income: New study in Nature that found lower-income communities increased physical distancing less than higher-income communities. Working outside the home contributed to these differences in physical distancing, and no evidence that non-work activities outside the home contributed to these differences. Financial constraints to physical distancing may have been an important factor contributing to higher COVID-19 burden among economically marginalized populations.
STATE
California: Carlsbad Unified giving out more than 300% more 'F' grades.
Maryland: Baltimore City plans to bring students back for classes at 44 schools, some five days a week.
Washington: Schools are reversing course on reopening plans due to local outbreaks.
INTERNATIONAL
Germany: German ICUs had sixfold rise in coronavirus patients in the last month.
Rwanda: Schools partly reopen.
Singapore: Students have to start using either the government’s contact-tracing token or mobile app.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Tech Can Scale Gov Delivery of Services: In the third quarter, mRelief got $80 million in food stamps for 70,602 families.
LEARNING PODS
Learning Pod Regulation: SPN has a 50 state analysis of learning pod regulations.
RESOURCES
6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager: Great First Round interview with the wonderful Molly Graham whose career has spanned Googled, Facebook, Quip, CZI, and now Lambda:
Rule #1: Management is not leadership.
Rule #2: Don't try to create robots. Focus on managing the what, not the how.
Rule #3: Never create a second patient.
Rule #4: Spend more time than you think you need to with your high performers.
Rule #5: Set expectations, but know that you're not always the one who needs to bring the clarity
Rule #6: Remember direct is kind, and have the hard conversations.
Navigating Race and Injustice in America’s Middle Class: Via Brookings.
Schools Need to Be Bolder About Reopening: EdWeek interview with Dr. Ashish K. Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
We Build Boring Schools, Then We Put Them Online--Science Has The Fix: Good piece from Tom Vander Ark.
COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Was Already Broken: New piece from Corey DeAngelis.
What Students Want: How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students.
Whole Child: EdTrust has a great resource: Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens which provides a new framework for schools and education leaders to approach supporting the whole child.
Celebrating the Life, Mourning the Loss: Of EdLOC's Layla Avila. A college fund has been established for her children.
Useful Reflection for Today: MLK in a speech at Cornell: "I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other. And God grant that something will happen to open channels of communication, that something will happen because men of goodwill will rise to the level of leadership."