As non-essential businesses closed their doors and millions of workers across the country shifted to working online from home during this COVID-19 pandemic, dairy farmers and workers have stayed on the job, on the farm. You can’t turn off a cow to put milking on hold, and you can’t feed livestock over Zoom.

With the halls of the Texas Capitol all but empty, it might look like the summertime slowdown has hit. But the building remains quiet only because it’s still closed to the public (and vacated by many staffers who are working remotely) because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, there’s a lot going on.