<div dir="ltr">There's an odd ghost-town feel here in Worcester UK, hardly anyone is on the streets, although there is currently only 1 confirmed case in the county (population about 600k). It's possible to pop into a coffee shop and still keep a reasonable degree of separation from other people as almost nobody is around, the gloom is mostly economic uncertainty rather than about catching the virus. <br><br>Today at the University 50% of students had decided not to come in, several have gone back to their families early, even though we still have 5 weeks of teaching left this year. We have quite a large number of Chinese exchange students who now wear masks 24/7, but I'm proud to say we have zero cases of any racism against them. Work has been quite odd for me, as I have a reduced teaching load this semester in return for doing a 10 day teaching session in China that was supposed to happen 2 weeks ago, but this was of course cancelled. Today I was midway through a lecture when the head of computing came to say we are stopping all face-to-face teaching from the end of tomorrow, so I quickly ran through all the rest of the course content with the students and will be doing video sessions for the rest of the academic year. Then at 5pm we have had another spanner thrown into the works, as the Government announced that there will be no A-level exams for school leavers this year, which throws our admissions process into chaos because we use those results to decide who to accept.<br><br>Family and friends are all healthy so far, and I'm currently expecting to work mostly from home until late September. <br><br>Stay safe and keep in touch, folks.... and make some music with all this enforced free time!<div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 20:18, deeplfo <<a href="mailto:deeplfo@gmail.com">deeplfo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">San Francisco is very quiet as we are all practicing staying at home and luckily Lisa and I can work from home. NYU campus is pretty much closed and my son is home and starting next week they'll be doing online classes; as will my other son's high school will. Our travel plans for Euro2020 got canceled; had tickets for a Glasgow game, so that's that.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It's nice though having no Uber and other ride sharing services clogging SF streets :-)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">mohsen</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
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On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 06:37:38 AM PDT, Jay Vaughan <<a href="mailto:ibisum@gmail.com" target="_blank">ibisum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">How’s things looking in your neighbourhood, folks?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Here in Vienna, its a beautiful spring day. Nothing COVID-19-related happening in my immediate neck of the woods. Vienna sure is quiet, though.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">j.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">music-bar mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <<a href="http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html</a>></div></div>
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