Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadPosted on 11/19/2020 9:18:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
A close friend of mine only knows what he hears on CNN.
And so far as I can tell, according to him, the death rate of COVID-19 is somewhere between 108 and 112%.
Hence, the only way to fight the virus: No one move.
For maybe half a year.
Then we all get up, the music starts again, and it’s around the chairs we go.
Funnily enough, on Thursday, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield presented a shocking clash to my friend’s best advice.
As reported by The Daily Wire, Robert said K-12 schools should actually remain open.
And why? Because, in his view, houses of education are some of the “safest places” for kids to be.
In fact, he asserted, efforts to shut them down are nothing but an “emotional response.”
Here’s how Redfield reckoned:
“Today, there’s extensive data that we have—we’ve gathered over the last two to three months—that confirm that K-12 schools can operate with face-to-face learning and they can do it safely and they can do it responsibly. The infections that we’ve identified in schools when they’ve been evaluated were not acquired in schools. They were actually acquired in the community and in the household.”
CDC Director Robert Redfield pointing out the obvious that triggers teachers unions, which is "[t]ere is extensive data" that "confirm[s]…K-12 schools can operate with face-to-face learning and they can do it safely and they can do it responsibly." pic.twitter.com/o4nMS81Axp
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 19, 2020
And check this out — the biggest problem isn’t anything to do with publicly shared space:
“Today, as Dr. Birx said, our big threat for transmission is not the public square, it’s small family gatherings, family gatherings where people become more comfortable, they remove their face-mask when they get together and it’s this silent epidemic that begins to transmit.”
School’s A-Okay:
“[I]t’s not interschool transmission. The truth is, for kids K-12, one of the safest places they can be, from our perspective, is to remain in school, and it’s really important that following the data, making sure we don’t make emotional decisions about what to close and what not to close, and I’m here to say clearly the data strongly supports that K-12 schools—as well as institutes of higher learning—really are not where we’re having our challenges.”
It’s a good thing to hear — in my opinion, school kids being quarantined is terrible for their emotional health. Youngsters are made to be running around, hanging out, socializing and trying to look cool.
That’s also, from what I’ve observed, what adults want to do, too.
But keeping kids in cages — even if it’s their own house — can’t be good for ’em.
Dr. Rob put a point on it:
“[I]t would be counterproductive from my point of view, from a public health point of view, just in containing the epidemic, if there was an emotional response, to say, ‘Let’s close the schools.’”
Keep it comin’, doctor.
Meanwhile, “an emotional response” seems to be suiting many folks just fine.
Speaking of emotion, see my May article, “Sleepless and Sea-Addled: Thanks to California’s Closure, Last Month Saw a Year’s Worth of Suicides.”
Last century, we had the Great Depression. Now we’re having a different kind (dive deeper into doubts and disguises via my colleague Michael Thau’s “Sorry, Wearing Masks Is Anything but Harmless. Here are 5 Reasons Why“).
Rather than fighting the Wuhan Flu with feelings, I hope we find a different way — back to the way things used to be.
The thing we used to call life, liberty, and happiness.
Ya know — that thing we called America.
And in that place, kids go to school.
Of course, these days, much of that time may be spent learning the evils of the U.S.
But one step at a time — maybe let’s get everybody back if it’s safe, then we can figure out what the heck’s going on while they’re there.
All these arguments are fine, but nobody ever asks the follow up question:
1) What about the older and more sickly teachers ( e.g., a teacher with a weak heart condition, asthema, etc. ).
2) What if an infected kid comes home to a house with an elderly person living there?
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Honestly here are the answers: the old and sickly teachers should retire, or get the vaccine ASAP, or try to get a remote teaching job. Otherwise they can try to stay 6 feet away and use the plastic shield around their desk, and wear a mask and wash their hands a lot. Science is finding very low (or no) transmission from schools.
This isn’t the time to mix school aged kids with elderly grandparents in the households, when possible. Many elderly people (the ones I know) want the young kids in school. It’s not good what’s happening right now with the K-college set of students. They need to get back to the classroom ASAP.
This new data out of the UK is pretty convincing due to the very broad and high number of participants.
And it says primary and secondary schools are 2nd and 3rd behind only supermarkets for spread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3907807/posts
Most, if not all, indoctrination centers are safe... when re-education or first-time education is being applied - they take safety very seriously... they need manipulated workers now and in the future if the powers-to-be are to stay in power... so, that comment by the CDC Director is true...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE ! ... it might be our last!
Really?
On Drudge this morning they list supermarkets as the the leading place to catch COVID-19 with schools a close second.
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