Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

FWIW . . .

Review of School Closure as a Pandemic Mitigation Strategy

NYC and Chicago kept schools open, BTW.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.w1066

 

Oh, then by all means, if the kids are going to get sick anyway, let's just send them back! What could possibly go wrong?

 

not sure how valid any data on transmission is going to be from the age before air conditioning and recirculated central heating and cooling.

 

But, but this study of a completely different disease from more than 100 years ago says we should send our kids back. Whatever are we to do?

 

Amongst the talking points our school district has issued for the startup of school next month, it says the news of any outbreak we'll go through the local DOH. By letter. So that means if there's an outbreak at the school, or worse in my kids class, it will take a week to find out? Maybe more? Maybe not at all? To me this is the most egregious disregard of their moral obligation to families. I mean if a student at the school dies, we get an all call about it. Doesn't it follow that if there's an outbreak on Monday by Tuesday we should have an all-call? they want us to make sure we adress the mental health of our students, but they're just going to let a contagion float around the school without telling us?

 

Do what you want. But it's probably not a good idea to post comparisons from 1918 . . . and then a few weeks later criticize someone else for doing the same. Like Trump, there's always a tweet post.

 

Well played...

 

Oh well now I'm really convinced I should go back to the classroom. Because a study of how social distancing works from 100 years ago means I should totally follow a study showing kids still get sick whether they are in school or not from 100 years ago.

Never mind that the whole fucking point of this is to limit how many kids get sick, limit how many teachers get sick and inherently implies that kids still need to social distance. Oh and the study doesn't say kids don't get sick at school, they get sick at school just as much as they get sick when they don't socially distance.

 

Know what one of the things St. Louis closed in 1918 was? Schools.

 

sorry, but you're making a specific comparison to students in school buildings then and now.

the difference in the example between St. Louis and Philadelphia was 'hold a parade' / 'don't hold a parade.'

so the gotcha you're trying to build would more accurately be presented as 'hold school' / 'don't hold school.'