As we careen toward the fall semester, I’m getting lots of polls about whether I prefer to teach/meet/have talks online vs face-to-face, and none of them include my preferred answer choice which is:

It depends on whether my children are back in school.

1. Pragmatically: No, staff and faculty cannot commit to being on campus if their children are still home ALL DAY EVERY DAY, unless you’re assuming that faculty/staff also all have a full-time caregiver at home, which is as an assumption that is all sorts of effed up

2. As this thread points out, our choices reflect priorities, and we *could* be minimizing other forms of face-to-face contact so that we can more safely reopen schools. Schools>>>>>>> bars. But also schools >>>>>>> conferences and colloquia. https://twitter.com/SarahCohodes/status/1277639091425882112?s=20">https://twitter.com/SarahCoho...

Forgive typos; tweeted, as usual, from my phone when I should be paying attention to my children who have not been in school or camp for 109 days