Covid-19

A-level work When you got the e-mail about the “Free! KN-95 masks! For Spring ’22!” you did not check your surroundings to see if you’d slipped into a pedagogical twilight zone where up is down and good is bad and you now teach English Comp wearing a device formerly reserved…

TL;DR Mostly accessible isn’t enough. Mostly accessible also doesn’t always mean good usability. — Personal opinion, not the opinion of my employer Like tens of millions of other people, I jumped on the Covidtests.gov website this week when I heard that they were starting to take orders for the four free tests every US household is entitled to. As an assistive technology user, the…

The sun stays up past 5pm now, symbolizing that there may, indeed, be some hope, though I don’t know from where said hope would emerge. This solstice and winter were darker for me than most. Maybe for you as well. This was perhaps due to the long and winding tunnel…

The City endeavor financially supports SF’s most at-risk workers — Memes of “The CDC recommends [this and that thing]” became internet fodder amid the government agency’s back and forth about certain Covid-19-safety protocols. Should you quarantine for five or ten days? Yes. Is it ethical to grab more than one Covid-19 rapid test? Idk, tbh. You should probably still wear…

The past two years could lead to a fundamental change — As more and more countries locked down over February and March 2020, almost everyone across the globe had to adapt to a new reality — working from home. All the familiarities of work, such as the daily commute, the chatter in the office canteen and the trips to the local…

I already mentioned this to GMU through a Covid-19 study that some people were doing, where I was interviewed. My university has given millions of dollars to GMU students as part of the money that was received from the government through the Cares Act. I got COVID-19 emergency funding three…