Arizona Teacher Dies of COVID-19 After Sharing Classroom with Colleagues Who Also Tested Positive

People Magazine ^ | Claudia Harmata

[Morpheus2009]

Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom for a summer school course all contracted coronavirus last month. One of them has died, according to several reports.

Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd died on June 26, just under two weeks after she was hospitalized due to coronavirus complications. The other two teachers — Jena Martinez-Inzunza and Angela Skillings — are still battling the virus, according to CNN.

[fr_freak]

I have observed how the people around me use their masks and gloves, and their behavior makes both useless for any real protection. Most people don't have the slightest clue about proper mask and glove protocols.

Gloves don't give you magic protection from any virus - you just don't get it on the skin of your hands. You still shouldn't touch your face. Masks don't give magic protection either - you touch you mask and move it around constantly, even with your magic gloves on, and they still will become contaminated and allow air flow.

This is the greatest fallacy with the "everyone must wear masks!" hysteria. Even with proper training, masks and gloves aren't meant to be worn all day. There is a certain way to sue them, and most people don't know it. This renders the mask orders moot, except as a useless show of fear and power.

[Wuli]

So - I am assuming they shared classes and did not remain masked during classes - close contact for more than ten minutes - and did not remain masked at other times they had close contacts with other students and teachers for a considerable time.

The report WILL be used for claims about not opening schools, but that concern is misplaced. It is about how to conduct the classes to minimize transmission of the virus, which schools in Sweden and some other countries that did not close their schools have proven standards that work.

[9YearLurker]

She was also, unfortunately, obese, as a quick google would show.

[Richard Kimball]

Maybe a thread slide, but in the original Jurassic Park, there was a scene where Laura Dern was going through triceratops feces, and was wearing gloves that went up to her shoulders. When she took the gloves off, she held them by the outside, which had been exposed to the feces.

[Mr Rogers]

” they had close contacts with other students and teachers for a considerable time”

Nope. No kids present. Just 3 adults in a classroom, wearing masks....

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Expanding charter schools would allow for more social distancing via more classrooms, but the American Federation of Tyrants and the Not Even Americans are apparently against that.

I’m sure those two groups were also diligent in making sure that this news article got wide circulation, IMO, so that more schools would remain shut down, crimping our economy in an election year.

PING!

[1Old Pro]

CV “complications” - she died of something else while positive.

Of course, but that's easy for the media to leave out and trick people.

[HIDEK6]

We have an uneducated populace now.

[CharlesWayneCT]

She had lupus, I hope she didn’t stop taking her HCQ because the democrats and media told her it would kill her.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Although I bet at least once, they all decided they were safe, and did something together that wasn’t social distanced, or protected with anything.

I was watching three women working at a rec center I swam at this past week. They all had masks when I entered, and one had gloves. But as I watched, the gloves were discarded, and they all had the masks down, and they were running around, and running into each other, and going in and out of the same doors over and over, and then all three were in the room shouting at each other over some sound outdoors.

If they all got sick, I’m sure the report would say that they followed ALL THE GUIDELINES.

[DouglasKC]

She had asthma, diabetes, lupus, chronic sinus infections and was put on a ventilator. Not intending to be insensitive, but she was perhaps fortunate to have lived to the age of 60 with all that. But yes, the ventilator may have been the final blow.

She was also obese...she was a ticking time bomb.

[Morpheus2009]

Doctors change their masks with each new procedure. They don’t wear the same mask and gloves all 12 hours.

[Wuli]

Yes. The adults were the students I was referring to. Someone they - all three - had close contact with for too long was infected, was not asymptomatic and not always masked.

[Lizavetta]

I remember reading something about the heavy death toll in Italy, and how the previous years had relatively low flu deaths and that the COVID was taking out those who would have died by flu.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan Media Shills update.

[Morpheus2009]

My children are charter school attendees. I can see the states demanding that homeschooling and private schools stay closed, because how dare someone have school while the rest are closed!

[Morpheus2009]

What you do outside the protected environment matters, you could easily defeat the point by what you do outside the secure environment.

[dragnet2]

because I knew her lungs were compromised even before this

Whoops~

[Wuli]

“What you do outside the protected environment matters, you could easily defeat the point by what you do outside the secure environment.”

What are you referring to as “outside” the “protected” environment or “outside” the “secure” environment, and how, if at all, do the terms “protected” and “secure” differ???

Maybe what you meant was taking health safety measures, in a classroom for instance, can be “defeated” by not taking the same measures in some other context. If that is what you meant, I’d agree, with the caveat that the conditions of the two environments were similar, in terms of constant close contact, regardless of how else the context was different.

The virus is spread by constant unprotected close contact with an infected person for some say at least ten minutes, not random momentary passing. THAT does not matter if it is a classroom or somewhere else. So, if someone protects themself in a classroom setting and then does not protect themself in a different setting that also includes constant close contact, then any benefit of the former could be lost with the latter, IF either contact included a symptomatic infected person.

[silverleaf]

Do more research
The vent killed covid patients before doctors better understood the nature of the virus as a blood disease with respiratory effects
Now the vent is the last choice of treatment to be avoided if at all possible