The level of COVID in Florida in March was very low. A very different situation than what is occurring now.
How many kids have died since the beginning of Covid, and how many kids have had Covid? On the whole planet, if you like. Just the numbers, please. No worthless rhetoric.
The risk is low, but it ain't 0, this one makes 45 apparently. No underlying conditions known. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/7...9-victim-in-georgia/ar-BB17Hkx6?ocid=msedgdhp
No idea, just happened to come across that one. If I weren't high risk and wasn't taking care of my mother in law currently who is also high risk, I would send my kids back I think. The risk is low enough that balanced against missing your first year in high school/middle school, I would send them. I just don't think in person should be mandatory, there should be accommodations for distance learning required until there is a vaccine.
See, you can't just talk death statistics. Its unfortunate that people die all the time. Kids die all the time, horrible as it is. There was a 9 year old who died close to here and it turned out she died from Covid, but the media left out that she had an organ transplant. As part of an organ transplant, you take anti-rejection drugs that suppress the immune system. That's high risk (and precaution should be taken for ANY flu or cold virus). The chances of a kid dying from COVID is less - considerably less statistically - than a kid dying in a car accident. No one is saying kids should never get in a car again. Families with kids who want to return to school should be able to return to school. Families with kids who want to distance learn should distance learn. In person shouldn't be mandatory, and no one - anywhere - has suggested it should be. But the narrative - and this is precisely what it is, a narrative - that we shouldn't open schools because the risk to kids is too great is complete and total horseshit.
Mostly agreed, life is a calculated risk, was just saying it's not 0 even for healthy kids. The issue to me isn't so much kids. If nothing else you do have the option to home school them if you really don't want to take that risk. The teachers are another matter, do you force them to take that risk or lose their job. If obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are underlying conditions, I would guess a fair amount of teachers qualify, not to mention the older ones.
For decades Conservatives have pushed "school choice" -- now suddenly they are demanding that everyone show up in public school classrooms.
Welcome to the first week of school... Eight Cherokee schools now affected by COVID-19 quarantines https://www.tribuneledgernews.com/l...cle_b401bb0e-d807-11ea-9411-ef379b9f579e.html As of early Friday afternoon, a total of eight Cherokee County schools have implemented some level of quarantine based on cases of COVID-19, according to school system officials. On Friday, the system revealed positive tests for COVID-19 at Bascomb Elementary School, Creekland Middle School and Cherokee High School. The first quarantine was at Sixes Elementary School on Tuesday when a student tested positive for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the second day of the new school year. (More at above url)