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rebeccmeister1. Alerted about a new NY State Executive Order today: 100% non-essential businesses ordered to stay home beginning Sunday evening: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cuomo-orders-all-non-essential-workers-to-remain-15145598.php
2. Start to wonder: I'm pretty sure we're non-essential?
3. Oh #$%$#@^, if we're non-essential and completely shut down, what am I going to do about all the reptiles, amphibians, and insects??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!
4. Trying to imagine scenarios by which I transport all of the animals to my home, and where I will put them. I can triage my teaching at home, no problem. Thankfullyscrottie has provided me with multiple computer backup systems. He has to have them, for his (terrible) line of work (programming). Teaching's the least of my concerns.
5. Cuomo announced via Twitter. Send tweet plea, breaking my personal social media rules. But this is an emergency.
6. Sent a somewhat panicked message to my department chair asking for help with getting clarifications on ramifications.
7. Find a tweet that notes that liquor stores are considered an essential service, lolcats: https://www.nyslsa.com/news/494970/LIQUOR-STORES-DEEMED-ESSENTIAL-BUSINESS-CAN-REMAIN-OPEN.htm
8. Liquor store article finally actually links to what I need, the guidance list of definitions of "essential services" from the prior "75% reduction" order issued Wednesday:
https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026
9. Read and scroll, read and scroll, ... item 5, "Essential services including...animal shelters or animal care or management."
I suspect my higher-ups here are also going to be up against this thing, scrambling. So there will probably be some follow-up messages in the near future. A colleague dependent on instrumentation on campus for their teaching is also pretty worked up.
Quite the ride.
Oh, contacted my brother in the midst of things, too, for advice, because he also has live animals on campus. He commented that his Vice Chancellor has a much better understanding of research animals now than they did a week ago.
It was good to talk to my brother. He used to call me fairly frequently (like once every two months, which is frequent for my family), but we haven't done that as much in the last couple of years. I mean, we meet up as a family on Zoom, but that's different.
Now where was I.
Back at it.
Updated to add...
After a conversation with our Department Chair and a fortuitous encounter with a colleague who lives near me, I've sent my work desktop computer home with her by van (slightly too bulky for me without my bike trailer). My student animal care workers and I will still be permitted on campus for animal care, but it would be unwise for me to linger in my office to get work done, under present circumstances.
Inconvenient, but not nearly as inconvenient as relocating all these animals would be. We just aren't set up at home for the amount of dishwashing and climate control that involves.
2. Start to wonder: I'm pretty sure we're non-essential?
3. Oh #$%$#@^, if we're non-essential and completely shut down, what am I going to do about all the reptiles, amphibians, and insects??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!
4. Trying to imagine scenarios by which I transport all of the animals to my home, and where I will put them. I can triage my teaching at home, no problem. Thankfully
scrottie has provided me with multiple computer backup systems. He has to have them, for his (terrible) line of work (programming). Teaching's the least of my concerns.5. Cuomo announced via Twitter. Send tweet plea, breaking my personal social media rules. But this is an emergency.
6. Sent a somewhat panicked message to my department chair asking for help with getting clarifications on ramifications.
7. Find a tweet that notes that liquor stores are considered an essential service, lolcats: https://www.nyslsa.com/news/494970/LIQUOR-STORES-DEEMED-ESSENTIAL-BUSINESS-CAN-REMAIN-OPEN.htm
8. Liquor store article finally actually links to what I need, the guidance list of definitions of "essential services" from the prior "75% reduction" order issued Wednesday:
https://esd.ny.gov/guidance-executive-order-2026
9. Read and scroll, read and scroll, ... item 5, "Essential services including...animal shelters or animal care or management."
I suspect my higher-ups here are also going to be up against this thing, scrambling. So there will probably be some follow-up messages in the near future. A colleague dependent on instrumentation on campus for their teaching is also pretty worked up.
Quite the ride.
Oh, contacted my brother in the midst of things, too, for advice, because he also has live animals on campus. He commented that his Vice Chancellor has a much better understanding of research animals now than they did a week ago.
It was good to talk to my brother. He used to call me fairly frequently (like once every two months, which is frequent for my family), but we haven't done that as much in the last couple of years. I mean, we meet up as a family on Zoom, but that's different.
Now where was I.
Back at it.
Updated to add...
After a conversation with our Department Chair and a fortuitous encounter with a colleague who lives near me, I've sent my work desktop computer home with her by van (slightly too bulky for me without my bike trailer). My student animal care workers and I will still be permitted on campus for animal care, but it would be unwise for me to linger in my office to get work done, under present circumstances.
Inconvenient, but not nearly as inconvenient as relocating all these animals would be. We just aren't set up at home for the amount of dishwashing and climate control that involves.
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Date: 2020-03-20 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-27 05:08 am (UTC)For some of these things, I feel like the only thing you can do is give students a rain check and try to work them in later, as difficult as that would be.
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Date: 2020-03-27 12:28 pm (UTC)