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Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

given how long it took to get medical professionals the PPE they needed, I'm sure we learned the lesson and have all those commercial grade air cleaners ready to go for every classroom in the United States
 
They've been available just fine for every medical office who wants them over the past few months. Obviously they don't get thrown out after every use so last a wee bit longer than typical PPE as far as reordering necessity and supply chain management.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Yes i understand the difference, but it is not an insurmountable difference with a little bit of effort, especially in light of the #science and #expert statistics as they relate to kids. The current attitude of throwing up our hands and saying there is no possible solution, shut it all down is a lazy, bullshit move. Relatively easy, safe solutions are available, but our school boards are too concerned with covering their own ass instead of objectively looking at the situation. It is the same milkwich snowday analysis played out over an entire school year.
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What are these “relatively easy” solutions? Spending $30 million on unproven air filters across the state? It’s very unlikely they would make any difference - the issue is sitting next to an infected classmate for 8 hours every day. And what happens when one kid is infected - do the rest quarantine for 14 days? Who’s going to replace the infected teachers? How is bussing going to work in regards to quarantining?

Attending schools in person will almost certainly greatly accelerate the spread of COVID19. And as it spreads it will eventually reach vulnerable people. As we have seen play out all over the world, an increase in cases leads to more hospitalizations and eventually more deaths.

Masks and distancing will help, and if everyone could do this consistently it would be very beneficial in slowing spread. Hopefully vaccines arrive by January.

No one is throwing their hands up. They have all been trying to find solutions, but the only effective approach so far is distancing+masks, and this is unlikely to work in schools.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Yes i understand the difference, but it is not an insurmountable difference with a little bit of effort, especially in light of the #science and #expert statistics as they relate to kids. The current attitude of throwing up our hands and saying there is no possible solution, shut it all down is a lazy, bullshit move. Relatively easy, safe solutions are available, but our school boards are too concerned with covering their own ass instead of objectively looking at the situation. It is the same milkwich snowday analysis played out over an entire school year.
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The future is learning online. It's not learning math from someone who never took any AP classes in high school themselves in a building that costs $50 million dollars of taxpayers money to build. The pandemic is just forcing us into the future.
 
stugotz said:
The future is learning online. It's not learning math from someone who never took any AP classes in high school themselves in a building that costs $50 million dollars of taxpayers money to build. The pandemic is just forcing us into the future.
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A first grader can't, and shouldn't, learn effectively online. A big part of the learning that occurs in school is not just what is contained in the books.
 
Rafi said:
What are these “relatively easy” solutions? Spending $30 million on unproven air filters across the state? It’s very unlikely they would make any difference - the issue is sitting next to an infected classmate for 8 hours every day. And what happens when one kid is infected - do the rest quarantine for 14 days? Who’s going to replace the infected teachers? How is bussing going to work in regards to quarantining?

Attending schools in person will almost certainly greatly accelerate the spread of COVID19. And as it spreads it will eventually reach vulnerable people. As we have seen play out all over the world, an increase in cases leads to more hospitalizations and eventually more deaths.

Masks and distancing will help, and if everyone could do this consistently it would be very beneficial in slowing spread. Hopefully vaccines arrive by January.

No one is throwing their hands up. They have all been trying to find solutions, but the only effective approach so far is distancing+masks, and this is unlikely to work in schools.
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Why ever bother to send kids to school at all any more? Bus wrecks on the way there, ice once a year, shootings could happen, various contagious colds and diseases, slip and falls on wet floors, injuries on the playgrounds, bullies, fights, stuffed in a locker, hurt during sports, asbestos, papercuts, shits from bad cafeteria meatballs. Let's just say fuck it and shut it all down now, it isn't worth the risk.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
Why ever bother to send kids to school at all any more? Bus wrecks on the way there, ice once a year, shootings could happen, various contagious colds and diseases, slip and falls on wet floors, injuries on the playgrounds, bullies, fights, stuffed in a locker, hurt during sports, asbestos, papercuts, shits from bad cafeteria meatballs. Let's just say fuck it and shut it all down now, it isn't worth the risk.
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This is such a clueless argument. Why would an adult even make such statements? Stuffed in a locker vs the greatest pandemic in 100 years with 140,000 US citizens dead and tens of thousands more to come. Your takes could not be worse.
 
Rafi said:
This is such a clueless argument. Why would an adult even make such statements? Stuffed in a locker vs the greatest pandemic in 100 years with 140,000 US citizens dead and tens of thousands more to come. Your takes could not be worse.
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The percentage of deaths below age 18, not the percentage of the overall population who caught it and died but the percentage among those who actually died, is 0.3%. So combine the two and take out the vulnerable situations and there is virtually no risk for the kids going to school. This is a fucking farce. There is no reason why schools should not reopen. All rational thought has gone out the window with this.
 
The #science and #experts show they don't. But believe whatever the media pushes in your face, that's how we got to this shitshow.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
The percentage of deaths below age 18, not the percentage of the overall population who caught it and died but the percentage among those who actually died, is 0.3%. So combine the two and take out the vulnerable situations and there is virtually no risk for the kids going to school. This is a fucking farce. There is no reason why schools should not reopen. All rational thought has gone out the window with this.
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Again. The death rate is not a constant. In Florida they have 20,000 people in the hospital now. Nurses are calling in sick at alarming rates, and they have accountants covering their shifts. What’s the death rate become when there are 200,000 people that need hospital care and you only have 30,000 beds ?
 
Aggressively and proudly ignorant is no way to go through life
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
The #science and #experts show they don't. But believe whatever the media pushes in your face, that's how we got to this shitshow.
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You mean the anecdotal story from Germany where there isn’t much virus going around as your #science and #experts? Or are you referring to something else?

Cause I’m trying to figure out how those 85 campers in Missouri all got it if the kids can’t spread it amongst themselves
 
There’s no spread of coronavirus in New Zealand bars so bars should be open in America cause they’re safe #science #experts
 
It'd be kinda cool to be able to see my parents again.
 
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