Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Jul 13, 2020.

  1. Ricter

    Ricter

    It's sad. Americans worked their asses off to win WWII, which made the country "exceptional". (I don't disagree.) That work ethic is gone. Now, throwing on a mask, keeping your distance, until a vaccine is developed, is just too hard.
     
    #131     Aug 5, 2020
  2. Buy1Sell2

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    #132     Aug 5, 2020
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Do you have a listing of all states where schools are reopening (should be all states, but maybe there is one where it isn't) and the R0 levels? Because Florida is currently below 1 and trending lower.
     
    #133     Aug 5, 2020
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  4. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

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    #134     Aug 5, 2020
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  5. Cuddles

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    #135     Aug 5, 2020
  6. Hotcakes

    Hotcakes

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    #136     Aug 5, 2020
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    super excited for that first day back at school
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    #137     Aug 5, 2020
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    There is not a single state in the U.S. below an 0.8 effective reproduction rate. As of August 4th the state with the lowest COVID R is Vermont with 0.86
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1119412/covid-19-transmission-rate-us-by-state/

    A state-by-state lit of school re-openings (updated July 10th)
    https://www.today.com/parents/when-will-school-open-here-s-state-state-list-t179718

    A second source on school re-openings
    https://ballotpedia.org/School_reop...ear_after_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic
     
    #138     Aug 5, 2020
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Facebook, Twitter pull Trump posts over coronavirus misinformation
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-trump-idUSKCN25136Y

    Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.

    The post contained a video clip, from an interview with Fox & Friends earlier in the day, in which Trump claimed that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19.

    “This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19, which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,” a Facebook spokesman said.

    A tweet containing the video that was posted by the Trump campaign’s @TeamTrump account and shared by the president was also later hidden by Twitter Inc TWTR.R for breaking its COVID-19 misinformation rules.

    A Twitter spokesman said the @TeamTrump account owner would be required to remove the tweet before they could tweet again.

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that while adults make up most of the known COVID-19 cases to date, some children and infants have been sick with the disease and they can also transmit it to others.

    The White House and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment. During a briefing at the White House, Trump repeated his claim that the virus had little impact on children.

    “Children handle it very well,” he told reporters. “If you look at the numbers, in terms of mortality, fatalities ... for children under a certain age ... their immune systems are very very strong and very powerful. They seem to be able to handle it very well and that’s according to every statistical claim.”

    It was the first time Facebook had removed a Trump post for coronavirus misinformation, the company’s spokesman said.

    It also appeared to be the first reported instance of the social media company taking down a post from the president for breaching its misinformation rules.
     
    #139     Aug 5, 2020
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #140     Aug 6, 2020