DIYbanter - View Single Post - School Opening -- The King has spoken

Rod Speed

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On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:44:09 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
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On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:35:22 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 7/18/2020 7:50 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 07/18/2020 08:23 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 17:12:41 -0700, Bob F
wrote:

On 7/18/2020 1:35 PM, trader_4 wrote:
On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:00:09 AM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 7/17/2020 9:38 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 07/17/2020 08:33 PM, wrote:
They sent their kids back to the brick and mortar las year,
mostly for
socialization. Now they are home again. No huge shock, excerpt
for the
kids, who liked being with other kids.

Socialization is one of the arguments for public schools. No
classroom
or playground activities for a year or two might make for a
generation
of weird people. Or weirder, I should say.

Kids parents and grandparents dying is anti-social too. Bu no, the
Repubs want to rush schools open in a major pandemic blowup, even
after
Israel proved it doesn't go well. This thing is not in control,
which is
absolutely necessary before opening schools.

No, we can't look at Israel, learn what they did, learn what works,
what
doesn't. No, No, No. This is AMERICA, we're the best, screw the
rest.
That's Dear Leader and the New Republican Party. If we had only
looked
at China, South Korea, Taiwan, EU and learned we wouldn't be
totally
screwed now with Covid.

If trump wants to open schools, he need to get testing and tracking
working. The longer he waits, the harder it will be to open anything
up
safely.

How do you test and track kids who are in a school with 1000 others
who are in the wild for the other 18 hours a day? Do you really think
a teenager will tell anyone where he actually was all day? That is
particularly true of the most at risk kids.

Good luck with fast, accurate, and cheap testing. That's like the old
engineering joke that has 'pick any two' as the punchline.

There was an article about testing employees. It said the tests ran
$100
a pop and the insurance companies were coming up with new, creative
ways
to not pay for them. So, you test 50 employees this week for $5,000.
You're not done by any means. When do you retest? Next week? Tomorrow?

Now think about a school with a couple of thousand kids. What's your
plan, Bob F?

Have real testing and tracking so when you get the numbers down, you can
keep them down, instead of trumps method of giving up, setting the virus
free, and pretending it would go away. Testing and tracking means EVERY
case possible. Most other countries are managing a pretty good job of
it. The US is doing crap.

And states like FL let Covid get so out of control that tracing is
impossible now. Who's going to track down all the contacts for 10,000
cases a day? Also tests are taking a week to process. By the time
you get the results, it's too late. Welcome to Trump's America.
We've fallen badly and can't get up. Besides the sickness and death
our enemies have taken note too. Trump can't beat Covid, why should
anyone think he's any better at beating them?

The spike in Florida was when we opened the "meet market"
bars and the people most affected were those customers.

Thats very arguable indeed with the massive numbers seen with ag labourers.