Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Get ready for a long, painful wave of mental health crises.


This N.J. man took his own life during the pandemic. Is coronavirus making the mental health crisis worse?

 

Yes, sadly.

 

http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/19861/urlt/FLDOEReopeningCARESAct.pdf

What I see is a heavy focus on the reasons why schools need to re-open, primarily because it is necessary for student learning and for the economy, with very little detail on how they are going to do it safely. The state is pushing the how onto the local districts. I've only had time to give it a quick glance, but I have zero confidence that this is going to be done safely. We are already seeing spikes in COVID cases in the states who have re-opened without proper precautions and it is only going to get worse in the fall.

 

Here in Mass. tentative guidelines for re-opening schools have been issued indicating that class sizes must be smaller to allow for distancing. This came out the same day local school districts sent layoff advance notices to between 10-20 percent of the teachers in the state because of the holes the shutdown blew in their budgets. Another dilemma no one in authority seems to be thinking about.

 

That is the real killer, one that I've brought up multiple times. I haven't heard of any viable plan for re-opening schools that isn't at least a little more expensive than business as usual, but nobody seems to want to pay for that.

 

Well, no. You can’t catch AIDS by being in the same room with someone who has it like you can with Covid. The two are not comparable.

 

Our district in Florida has been polling parents, but there aren't many good options. I agree the kids should be in school. I don't think you can start a year with distance learning. But going to school every other day is a non-starter. You can't do that to kids. Wake up one morning, but not the next. wake up one morning but not the next. Every other week? Maybe. But that leaves everyone except the students being exposed everyday. It's a puzzle and DeSantis basically said he's not helping.

 

Basically, our leaders are giving up on a health crisis. They'll reopen everything by the time school rolls around. It's every person for themselves at that point.

 

South Carolina just reopened bowling alleys.

 

That's true. But you CAN make a conscious decision --- "I am going to make my chances of catching COVID as infinitesimal as possible" (as you can do with AIDS) --- by adjusting your behavior accordingly.

Several vulnerable people on this board are doing just that.

I think what the poster was trying to say is that we may have to grudgingly accept a reality that says, "Do whatever YOU feel is necessary to stay safe, but beyond that, the world will continue to function close to normal."