Why are people still not understanding this?
Courtesy of NYT:
The camp implemented several precautionary measures against the virus, but stopped short of requiring campers to wear masks. The virus blazed through the community of about 600 campers and counselors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.
The staff and counselors gathered at the overnight camp in late June. Within a week of the camp orientation, a teenage counselor developed chills and went home.
The camp, which the C.D.C. did not name, started sending campers home the next day, and shut down a few days later. By then, 76 percent of the 344 campers and staffers whose test results were available to C.D.C. researchers had been infected with the virus — nearly half the camp.
The study is notable because few outbreaks in schools or child care settings have been described to date, said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“The study affirms that group settings can lead to large outbreaks, even when they are primarily attended by children,” she said.
“The fact that so many children at this camp were infected after just a few days together underscores the importance of mitigation measures in schools that do reopen for in person learning,” Dr. Rivers added.
Physical distancing, universal mask use, hygiene and ventilation are essential to reducing transmission, she noted.
While the role children play in the spread of the virus has been questioned, the authors of the report said the research adds to evidence that children of all ages are not only susceptible to infection, but may play an important role in transmission.
The fact that people are still moving forward with a return to classroom teaching is insane in my eyes.
What more do they have to know, to recognize that they are about to send children to their deaths, and spread death throughout their families and communities?
I applaud every teacher and union that rises up against reopening. Interview after interview that I have seen, of course they’re concerned about themselves but care about their students more.
It’s not enough that they are underpaid and under equipped with supplies and tools they need, now babysitters for worn out parents.
Where have you been, teachers have been considered babysitters for decades.
Perhaps the most odd date during this time, however, happened at the International Hotel & Bar on North Turner Street, just across the Chena River from Two Street. The oldest continuously running joint in Fairbanks, it had started serving beer in 1927; by 1971, John “Jack” Sexton and Bert “Hap” Ryder had turned it into more of an Irish pub. By 1974 it employed an exclusively female bartending crew, which might have helped lure in a 27-year-old George W. Bush, who was living in Fairbanks that summer while working a desk job with a CIA-affiliated construction company.
“We went to the International Bar, kind of a hangout for people in the arts and people who write for the newspaper,” Sally Smith recalls of the blind date she had with the future president. “I remember we had a beer. That’s all I remember.”
https://www.insidehook.com/article/restaurants-bars/boomtown-bars-fairbanks-alaska-1970s?fbclid=IwAR3fZzrAq04ulclp2mepDpOC2xGTTqnqnbhsx-BRPZeo6St5KrkPhid9nj8
Meanwhile a school that opened shut down the first day because a student tested positive for Covid. All he came in contact with now have to quarantine for 14 days.
https://news.yahoo.com/more-schools-stay-online-one-140501853.html?guccounter=2
“On the first day of classes Thursday, a call from the county health department notified Greenfield Central Junior High School in Indiana that a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Administrators began an emergency protocol, isolating the student and ordering everyone who had come into close contact with the person, including other students, to quarantine for 14 days. It is unclear whether the student infected anyone else.”
Why did the student attend school with a pending test result? IMO if someone is exposed to the virus they need to isolate themselves until they get the result.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/01/trump-golfing-covid-bill.html
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/01/opinion-trump-and-republicans-push-to-destroy-social-security.html
Just got my annual SSA statement. Now soon to be 63, and still working hoping to make it to the magic 67 for healthcare insurance alone, $115K paid in since the age of 16, my monthly benefit would be $2525 per month, and now it’s theirs. Of course it is. Insert major swearing.
don’t forget they take out medicare from your social security.
And when it all goes haywire with kids returning to school, watch trump try to blame the students and their parents. There has to be a seat at the Hague waiting for this monster.
No one should be having kids anyways.
Thank you. This planet was over-populated decades ago.
Speaking of children, Melania isnt taking very good care of Barron, it seems. Maybe some moisturizer?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_sheepshead_wrasse#/media/File%3A20100216_acaworld02.jpg
but, but, but Betsy DeVos, who know everything about education and schools told us children were blockers.
The intentional lies to manipulate people to do what they want , return to school, is shocking and disturbing.