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Only if we can't open them in July.**Quote:
Originally Posted by Indndawg
But seriously, I really wish they would have planned to open in July to give an option to shutdown for a week or two in the fall or after Christmas. In hindsight, they should have opened schools back up in May to finish the semester but that's water under the bridge at this point.
I realize that's all a logistical nightmare and there is the question of contracts and compensation, but if we find out that school aged children do act not just to spread COVID to each other but also to less healthy populations outside of school, it would be nice to have the option to shut down for an extra couple of weeks without completely fubarring the school year for the kids.
And if we find out that school aged children do spread COVID to each other and also to parents, grandparents, other caregivers, and less healthy populations inside and outside of school, it would be nice to have the option to not overwhelm our medical system.... Again....
It depends. Based on where we are now, in Houston Metro, kids should be back on learn from home.
If we can get back to the level we were in early May, and everyone will wear a mask, then I could see some sort of in class instruction.
But the USA has shown we are not mature enough to follow basic instructions.
Did you really expect people to sit in their houses til we have a vaccine? I mean how asinine and na?ve are you to believe that was a possibility. A rise in cases was going to happen, it was inevitable. We're testing at a rate that is triple most other countries. It's past time to get back to living life. Let people make their own choices regarding they and their family's safety. No one is forcing parents to send their kids back to school in the fall just as no one is forcing people to go to a ballgame. Most administrators I've talked to have plans in place to handle any type of situation. If you want to hole your kid up for the rest of time, then I'm sure the school will be more than accommodating towards distance learning.Quote:
Originally Posted by SheltonChoked
100%.
For working parents, Where are the kids supposed to stay if there is no school?
My kids have been at a daily 8-530 summer camp for a month with 150 other kids. No issues from any of the kids or teachers (or parents that I know of). It makes me wonder if there is smn to the theory that asymptomatic people (like kids) don't shed the virus.
Liverpool's houseQuote:
Originally Posted by William Tecumsah Sherman
Leaning to yes. I don't wish anyone to get Covid, but I believe the young and healthy are the least at danger.
Where I live, the school district is offering two options for the fall: 1) Send your kids to school or 2) Home school your kids using distance learning (like how the spring semester finished).Quote:
Originally Posted by William Tecumsah Sherman
In this scenario, it's the parent's decision on what best works for them. I've spoken with some parents who are going to distance learn while others are going to send their kids to school. I would rather have the option as a parent versus being forced into the scenario that you describe. During quarantine when nothing was open and most jobs were working remotely, it was somewhat feasible. Unless a parent stayed at home full-time, distance learning isn't really an option.
Yes. I do think they will open regardless but it could very well be only two grades every other day. Example 9th and 10th one day and then 11th and 12th the next.
No, but you would hope they wouldn't make a federal case out of wearing a 17n mask and not congregating in groups over 10 damn people. Dumb 17s.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
The virus is not going away. We have to learn to live with it. Plus for kids, it?s the same danger as the flu.
It is less than the flu.Quote:
Originally Posted by MafiaDawg
Yea, point being keeping your kids out of regular school for another semester will do waaay more harm. They may never be able to catch up.
If places don't require masks then most people aren't going to wear one. That's just the facts. They are definitely uncomfortable and if you don't HAVE to wear one then it's much easier to not. Now I'm not deciding on where to go strictly off who requires to wear a mask, but some people do. It's the world we live in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord McBuckethead
Does the flu scar your lungs for life?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Lambert
Good luck getting kids K-12 to wear masks at all times. Talk about a headache enforcing. If you send the student to the office for not wearing a mask, you are opening up a can of worms for lawsuits from parents. It's like saying that girls must wear skirts if they are female. That shit works in private schools, but not public. Getting 1,000 students to wear a mask at all times is harder to enforce than you throwing on your Hail State mask when you go to Target to buy your boot cut jeans.
Our school system polled all the families and 57% said yes. Only 18% said they prefer e-learning and the balance said they would like more info on the safety protocols before deciding. I was among the 57%. This is in the Birmingham area.
This doc says the current spike can be seen as a positive as it will inevitably cycle through & schools should open & gives reasons why. Also says...
50% of cases Are asymptomatic
48% - 49% are flulike only
1-2% are more serious
Lots of other info in here
https://youtu.be/kZqGSnVt8c8
Umm that doesn?t happen to children. Freak out much?Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
I asked a question. We don't know for sure what the long term effects of this is and if that is only for old people.Quote:
Originally Posted by MafiaDawg
I just would be hard pressed to believe parents could be so unconcerned for their children.
I'm pretty sure the long term lung issues your referring to come from the "cytokine storm", so I don't think there is any reason to think that kids that are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms will suffer lung damage just from having it in their system.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
It's very concerning, but what are you going to do? You can't lock people up forever. Hopefully it is as benign as it looks for children and there aren't any latent issues that we are going to find out about later.
"Vaccine" is not the only answer. We could've also deployed a national testing and tracing strategy, which would've helped control and manage the outbreaks and allow us to effectively manage hospital bed space and ICU/PPE/Treatment capacity. But if it takes more than 2 words to explain, many Americans will ignore it and just go on killing their neighbors. For example, "wear a mask" is too complex. We should've just said "wear mask" so the Neanderthals still living amongst us could understand that they're hurting everyone around them and quickly contributing to a situation where will have no choice but to shut back down. Idiots.
I've said the same thing. It seems heartless, but makes sense. The higher the case count the quicker we can get to herd immunity if this thing continues to show no significant mutation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schultzy
Why would you want to shut back down? Deaths are plummeting. I would argue the higher the case count the better at this point unless we start to see mutationQuote:
Originally Posted by Political Hack
Yes. It is time. It needs to be done right.
We do not know that definitively yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Lambert
You would never be able to implement a tracing strategy with how rural the US is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Political Hack
Y?all tell the four set of parents I know who kids have come down with Covid that its not dangerous. Yea, none of them had to be put in the hospital but could barely get out of the bed for around 3 to 4 weeks and still to this day 6-8 weeks later they are still having to take breathing treatments and can?t compete in baseball softball and cheer because of it.
In rural areas you do it through the hospital system and health department, same as any. You're right that it's more difficult to recognize clusters in a rural area, but you'd still know the saturation rate locally which would give state and local officials the info they need to manage the gas and the brakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bass Chaser
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Originally Posted by confucius say
We can't shut down. That's the point. If we don't learn to manage this as a "slow burn" we'll have to shut down again. And that will be 100% the fault of the "fully open, no mask, don't care, economy first" crowd. We have to manage the gas and the brakes. No groups of more than 50, or 25 or 10. LOCAL mandates to wear mask in public settings when the virus is present. Etc... I WANT FOOTBALL and everyone seems intent on screwing it up!!! If bed space in hospitals, ICUs PPE or medical treatments become scarce we have to shut down. This is a manageable situation that we've refused to manage. It's maddening. If we have to actually "shut down" again, it's the fault of the federal government.
No disrespect, but there are 60 million kids under the age of 14 in this country. Going to need a larger sample size.Quote:
Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless
Also, I personally know one person (in their 40s) who contracted COVID in March and ended up in ICU. I also know others (same age) who contracted it in May that were back on their feet after a week with no hospital visit. I can't deduce anything from either situation as the sample size is too small...
More kids die from the flu than the virus. Maybe five years from now that will not be the case since the virus has only been around for 7 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
I’m sure there are exceptions but home schooling is the sports equivalent of participation trophy’s .
Agreed but as of right of right now yes. All indicators are kids are not affected like the flu. They seem to be able to fight the virus off and not get sick. Have some gotten sick sure have but if the kid gets the flu that kid is going to get sick. If a kid gets the virus the kid may not even know it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord McBuckethead
I don't disagree. I guess the question is whether that stuff is going to get scarce even with spikes in cases. In MS at least, that doesn't appear to be the case with this spike in cases we've seen the last few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Political Hack