Parents, you want public schools to open in Aug if cases are still spiking in Ms or

[Jacksondevildog]

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.

[RiverCityDawg]

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.

[Schultzy]

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

[MafiaDawg]

Does the flu scar your lungs for life?

Umm that doesn?t happen to children. Freak out much?

[dantheman4248]

Umm that doesn?t happen to children. Freak out much?

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.

I just would be hard pressed to believe parents could be so unconcerned for their children.

[Johnson85]

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.

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.

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.

[Political Hack]

"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.

[confucius say]

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

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.

[confucius say]

"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.

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 mutation

[Dognabbit]

Yes. It is time. It needs to be done right.

[Lord McBuckethead]

It is less than the flu.

We do not know that definitively yet.

[Bass Chaser]

"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.

You would never be able to implement a tracing strategy with how rural the US is.

[WinningIsRelentless]

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.

[Political Hack]

You would never be able to implement a tracing strategy with how rural the US is.

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.

[Political Hack]

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 mutation

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.

[Gutter Cobreh]

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.

No disrespect, but there are 60 million kids under the age of 14 in this country. Going to need a larger sample size.

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...

[Jack Lambert]

Does the flu scar your lungs for life?

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.

[Dawgbite]

I’m sure there are exceptions but home schooling is the sports equivalent of participation trophy’s .

[Jack Lambert]

We do not know that definitively yet.

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.

[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.

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.