Prereleases can be fun but they can also be awful. I had someone get up and “go to the bathroom” in the middle of a game in a pre-release only to go to the judge’s table and write down that he won. I’ve also had someone threaten to stab me during a pre-release for playing an aggressive BR deck. I would still be playing magic if it weren’t for its players who are, imo, the worst in the board gaming community.
I had to keep teaching online (kindergarten) during the lockdown in Shanghai. The online teaching tools provided were a little rough at the start but got better over the course of the lockdown (and after I set up dozens of macros to manage the class, and eventually some OBS gimmicks). Major difference between what I saw and what American teachers saw was supervision during class time. Almost everyone lives with their grandparents. I had to constantly beg grandma and grandpa to stop answering for students, stop hand feeding students during class so they could answer, to wear clothes during class, to tell their grandchild to wear clothes during class. My students all met academic goals pretty close to their normal ones. The only thing that was really hard to teach was tracing and copying for the computer kids, but the tablet kids did okay.
I lived in Shanghai for the lockdown. We were really inside for 3 months, not allowed to leave our apartment complex except for a daily test at the local school. To get out of the lockdown you would have had to jump over a 10 foot gate and people did to buy cigarettes on the black market. About two months in I found a man online that was delivering some expat foods (the government declared foreign foods nonessential) to expats. I bought a baguette. That man was arrested.
but there are some differences
I do like that Stein is out there, at every major left wing protest causing trouble and getting arrested for it. I remember she vandalized a bulldozer at the DAPL protests and thought that was worth some support. PSL is invisible. I have literally never seen La Riva or De la Cruz in person. They aren’t running around trying to be seen. No one knows who they are and it is because they aren’t hustling like Jill is.