Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...ows-low-coronavirus-infection-rate-in-schools

I'll take actual kids and actual teachers in actual schools over "what if what if WHAT IF!??!!??" but that's just me.

 

Someone posted the stat that 31 kids under 14 (not sure of the 15-19 demographic) have died so far from coronavirus, and that's with schools being closed the whole time. So we are back to what's acceptable for people -- 10 kids per state dying? 20?

 

Child abuse is terrible and sadly it does occur and teachers are the No. 1 detectors of it.
The other hurdles surely can be overcome by the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, no? Particularly since my plan removes all the uncertainty once and for all, literally for all.

 

Does the state require these schools to ensure students are vaccinated against polio, smallpox, etc? Or are they allowed to be parties to the spread of disease in all cases because their religious precepts are those preferred by the politicians whose palms they grease?

 

"You see, kids gotta go to school. Can't stay home. Let's send
'em to school. They'll get COVID there...and then they'll stay home."

 

There are secondary educators around here who might better quantify this, but a year's worth of lost school is a pretty dire thing, especially for the lower grades. You can kind of see this in PSAT scores for 10th graders as compared to those for 11th graders. Scores of 500 on each half are well-above median scores for a 10th-grader (61st percentile on "verbal," 68th percentile on "math") ... for an 11th-grader the same scores fall to the 45th and 52nd percentiles respectively.

 

144.

CDC: 8 more children have died of flu; 144 total

 

We accept kids dying from shootings by the boatload.

 

Water samples have shown the virus has been in Italy since at least December.

 

Except you're playing what if also. What if we go back and everything is fine like Germany. I can point to Israel needing to shut down schools again, so we're even. Also, this again discounts everything else Germany has done.

But to not to be a complete asshole every time you post, kids do get this less seriously than adults. That however appears to be less so as you start to look at teenagers. It is encouraging that fewer children appear to be getting this and maybe we can get back to school sooner rather than later.

But right now, our rise in cases dwarfs that of Germany. It's not a small gap. That in it of itself dictates we move slower than Germany. Also kids aren't the only ones in the room. Kids are affected less, but they do get it and they might pass it to teachers who will see more serious reactions. And the first case in a school or even first suspected case in a school is going to cause a panic among parents. Governors can force schools to stay open all the want, if parents don't think it's safe, those kids are not being sent. Hell, look at the panic whenever there's a vague threat of violence on social media. The threat is fake and police can say all they want that the threat isn't realistic, but attendance does go down. A Covid case will do the same.

 

Unfortunately yes. But like I told BTE, that all changes whenever there is even a whiff of a threat on social media.

 

Schools around here have been on the verge of shutting down on certain days the past few years because of just normal winter crud, chicken pox, strep, stomach viruses, cold and flu. Gwen said there were several times when more than half of the children and staff in multiple elementary schools in her county were home because the infection rates were so high.

I understand the LOGIC behind opening schools. I just don't understand the idea of using our children and teachers as guinea pig test subjects to prove or disprove scientific theories based on small sample sizes and educated guesses.

Better safe than sorry? That keeps repeating in my head.