From the CDC website:
COVID19: 29
Pneumonia: 176
Flu: 100
Further, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently released a statement which strongly supports schools reopening.
Opposition to school re-opening is solely based on one thing - Trump supports it.
Link: Statement
If you can’t understand why a teacher - or a school secretary, or a janitor - would be scared to go back to work (maybe they live with their elderly mom; maybe they have heart disease), then you are a bigger tool than I thought.
It’s only about Trump because he made it about himself. And tools like you bought it.
The usual mindless lemmings cite no data and rush to chime in.
They know so much more than 67,000 US pediatricians.
Join BLM protests is one...
But don't you think that from a high level that school policy should be primarily focused around the good of the students? With only secondary concern for the teachers?
Everyone else who has gone back to work has done so with restrictions like masking and social distancing and enhanced hygiene. Don’t you think adults and children deserve the same protections in a school setting? Israel has already proven the risk here. But yeah, just wing it, nothing to worry about.
"Even before CoVid, why did we not have children wash their hands between recess and lunch?". "CDC and others have for the last 100 or so years cited hand washing as the best and easiest preventative measure for communicable diseases."
I had signs put in all the restrooms on this floor to wash your hands for 20 seconds.
I was gonna put others in telling them to use soap and to wash after either number 1 or 2, but was told that would be over the top.
The problem is rather than trying to make it work, the response is either just send them back and read this Science Mag article, or its too dangerous to reopen. If we would have handled our earlier reopening better, we would be in a lot better place. But that involves telling too many base constituencies on both sides to just STFU.
Wash your damn hands people!
School districts across the country need guidance about how to do it. And they are not getting it.
The evidence supports opening...but it is risky. The Israelis have found that their schools were the super-spreaders. And in some regions - Houston, for instance - it could be disastrous.
In New Orleans, schools have been told that they should not expect to be able to give COVID tests to students. Our testing centers are essentially overwhelmed.
We need to do this wisely...and we need experts to tell us what that means.
States, localities and individual school districts deciding what makes sense for them. What a Novel concept...
And, FWIW, I think they will, broadly speaking. Today is day 4 of both kids being in camp/daycare and it is a complete game changer at home. My son's camp is at his school so perhaps this can be considered a dry run.
That said, the original post's facts have little to do with whether they open. The concern isn't that a bunch of kids will die. But it fits the annoying trend on both sides of the aisle in the past couple of months. I'm glad I'm so busy at work.
Your term of "game-changer at home" is as apt as it could possibly be.....for the kids and for the wife and I.
And I agree with you that the original post doesn't really have much to do with whether the schools will open - I think it will vary across states depending on party leadership, which is just insane to believe. I hate what has happened to this country.
My SIL is in Lexington, MA and they have already announced that kids will alternate weeks at schools in the best case scenario, and instruction will be all virtual at worst.
Cuomo ok'd camps as of a couple of weeks ago. Absent a spike (and we are generally doing alright here), I am optimistic that he will let schools proceed although with continued precautions that they have now (e.g., parents can't enter the building at all, temp checks, etc.). He said early on that they understand that business can't get up to speed with schools not operating, which gives me some hope.
People need to chill out on both sides and find more hobbies or work more. A perusal of the front page of this site shows a bigger dumpster and a bigger fire than usual, which I didn't think was possible.
Maybe we can have a virtual Kumbaya circle? Can you get that schedule?
But get back to me on the Kumbaya circle please.
Thanks to Donnie's brilliance we also have 24% of the world's Covid deaths. Donnie inherited his brilliance from his uncle who taught at MIT.
Cliffnotes: Young kids don't seem to spread the virus very well at all. Not to each other, not to adults.
...and you know that the MSM is the mouthpiece of the Democrat Party.
This is a sure sign that what I told Chris yesterday will come to pass. the Dems will oppose reopening and shrug that "it just can't be helped" and that "it's due to Trump".
They cannot say this politically at this time, so they are paying lip service for now. But the MSM direction is a 100% indicator of Dem policy (MSM narrative defined as showing up on mutliple different MSM sites with identical catch phrases and/or thoughts after they all receive the same talking points memo of the day).
Are you saying it’s okay that 29 kids die because Orange doesn’t want to follow CDC guidelines?
