It's worth repeating....opposition to school opening is 100% political and has no basis in fact.
Children are at extremely low risk and even then, they don't pass it to adults.
Link: Facts don't matter
The only large study shows that older children spread it the fastest.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/health/coronavirus-children-schools.html
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But, yet, schools - where the money coming in is guaranteed, and powerful unions see the opportunity to collect their full salaries for less work - have to close. It's complete bullshit.
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Hopefully it goes smoothly.
Everybody wants schools to open. Those who disagree with you on timing are not just “being political.”
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But then he can always say it’s gonna get worse before better and blame too much testing.
Everything in our current extremely partisan, devisive country is political at the moment.
Obviously reason number one for that is our president.
But it's been trending trending in the direction of this level of disfunction for a long time.
This would have to be the calculation being made in school districts for this to be political: "Well, we surely could open, but if we stay closed it will fuck Trump hard. So screw the kids!"
People around the country are struggling to make the right call for a situation in which we have incomplete data. In the Netherlands, there was almost no kid-to-teacher transmission; in Israel, schools were super-spreaders. We just don't know.
The people (like me) who want to see schools open are not doing it to support Trump; the people who want to take it slowly are not hoping to hurt him.
We are all just trying to do the right thing for the kids.
The reporting, also bullshit.
The hatred for Trump politicizes everything. And the CDC and WHO fuckups make it worse.
Who are all those people in ICU’s? Why are counties in Texas locking down?
It's been wrong since the beginning and continues to find new ways of being wrong 4 months in.
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Great example of lawyers being the biggest problem in our society.
Doesn’t take a lawyer to know that. You have no idea how much of it is right or wrong. Yet you broad brushstroke say it’s complete BS.
The situation could be way worse or way better than the currently available information, no one knows.
A week from now we won't know with certainty, and a week after that we'll learn that everything we thought we knew was wrong and okay we'll keep trying but oh BTW there are new problems with the test data.
From a data and information perspective, it's a complete shit show Frank. There is no actionable data.
That’s the point.
generally. It is because they are funded and not forced to earn their funding. Tenure, tenure, tenure. Does a teacher every worry about anything else as much as tenure.
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Pretty much nonsense.
Orleans Parish schools just announced that they are going virtual through September, though, so all that could change.
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