AN UPDATE : Make sure you read the ps after the blog!
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The set's ready. Now we just have to see if Mother Nature (and the people of the UP) play along.
It's two days until we start taping the new season of “High School Bowl” (the main reason, as I said yesterday, that the Corona Curls are gone). We did a run-through yesterday, which went well, and allowed us to explore our new set.
How new? Well, if you've ever watched the show, be prepared for quite the change--
I know. It took me a while to get used to it, as well. There are only three students per team instead of four, and the alternate(s) and coach will be off camera. Still, if things work as well Friday as they did yesterday, we should be set.
However, there is one other factor that's kind of out of our control. Right now, there are a couple of UP counties in which Covid-19 infections are just surging out of sight. We're okay in Marquette County, but once you get close to the Wisconsin border or in the Copper Country you're looking at some of the highest infection rates in the state, on a per capita basis.
So the question then becomes...what to do with students who are coming from those high-infection areas? Postpone their taping dates? Give them some time to have their hometowns get clean (or at least cleaner?) It's not a problem we have to face right away, but in the next couple of weeks we'll have to see where the numbers are and what we (and NMU's Public Safety Department) decide to do.
I'm hopeful we'll get through 20 show tapings and the entire season fine. After all, as I say every week on the show, these are some of the brightest young people on the planet. I'm sure they're fine. The people who live around them? Perhaps not so much, and I'd be loathe to think that a school couldn't participate because some butt-head (or group of butt-heads) decides that they're not wearing a mask doesn't have an effect on the community in which we live.
Keep your fingers crossed that doesn't happen. After all, if I got rid of the Corona Curls for the show, I'd at least like to think their sacrifice wasn't in vain.
8-)
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The update---no more than 10 minutes after I originally posted this this morning I was informed that part of it is moot, as we will not be shooting the season opener Friday because because, you know, it's 2020. More details tomorrow)
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