re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

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if you don't want to be tracked, leave the phone at home

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Ahh, the fatal flaw for every college student!

Don't want to have Mom and Dad tracking you on Life360? Leave your phone at home!

...But they just can't manage to do it (nor could I).

Glad I went through high school and college before cell phones became ubiquitous.

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So if you're comfortable tracking your kids, then you're definitely ok with the government tracking you for COVID-19 purposes, right?

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What?

Hell no. I track my kids to make sure they are safe and where they are supposed to be. I don't want the government tracking my every movement and I'm a federal employee.

By the way, I checked the apps on my phone and I don't see any Covid tracking app.

Notre Dame had to roll it back on live classes after an off campus party with no masks and no social distancing caused a spike of over 100 cases.

Yeah TSaint, that post was full of sarcasm. Kids today are going to be so used to being tracked that they won't care about the government tracking them. I never tracked my sons. They are good kids and I trust them. They have phones to call me when they need me. I worked with a helicopter parent that tracked their daughter at college and would get upset when she wasn't where they thought she should be at certain times. At some point you have to trust your parenting. Just a little different perspective. There obviously is no right or wrong here. But I would assume everyone here made it without their parents tracking them 24/7.

And yeah, at this point I don't trust or love our government, so no thank you on the tracking. Although, that is somewhat out of my control at this point. And just to be clear, tracking as a parent (love for your child's safety) is not the same as the government tracking us (not thinking there's any love there - except maybe for our taxes).

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Notre Dame had to roll it back on live classes after an off campus party with no masks and no social distancing caused a spike of over 100 cases.

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This is a weird situation, because what I read was students couldn't report to campus until they submitted a negative test. Of course, if a student lived off campus, there's little the school could do to prevent them from returning to town.

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Notre Dame had to roll it back on live classes after an off campus party with no masks and no social distancing caused a spike of over 100 cases.

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They didn't "have to". They just panicked. If a school's standard for having on-campus instruction is zero clusters of infections, then they never should have opened to begin with, because that's impossible.

I understand phil. If I had daughters, I'd probably do the same thing.

As a professor of mine said long ago, "You don't take chances you can't afford to lose." Lots of crazies out there.

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Faraday bag. Blocks all major signals: 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, Bluetooth, WiFi (2.4Ghz and 5Ghz). Bluetooth, RFID, Wifi,GPS

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Well, sure that will work but it doesn't cost anything to just power the phone off.

I have a 16 year old son, and while I don't really track him, I do pull up his location every now and then. Mostly to make sure he's where he told us he was going to be. I was 16 once and lied my arse off to my parents on my whereabouts all the time.

Kids today are just as sneaky. Found out a group of his friends have a "trap" phone they pass around to each other when one's parents are being strict with them. So Kid A has his phone taken away, they slip the trap phone to him so he can still access his social media accounts.