Only 31 deaths of children under age 15 involving COVID-19. Common flu-related child deaths from 37 to 187 during regular flu season. Should Governors

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RhodesianSon said:
In large part that’s what it is.
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I don’t know I’d say large part, more for the uninvolved parent(s) who really don’t care about their kid’s education. Yes, they utilize the education system as “free daycare”.
 
Even for parents that care, it’s where they count on their kids being kept and supervised by adults for 7 hours a day 5 days a week for 9 months of the year. That’s what our society has come to expect. That can’t just be shrugged off suddenly without something to reliably replace it.
 
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That can’t just be shrugged off suddenly without something to reliably replace it.
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To be fair, I don’t think we’re “suddenly” shrugging off anything. March was a bit sudden and the 3 months that we were all of a sudden home (and made it work). We’ve had 3 months to prepare for the “just in case”.
 
Great links.

The facts are, we dont know.

But one thing I always try to see, which position gives the Federal(becoming at statist) government more control over the population lives. That tends to be the wrong thing to do.
 
But we still don’t have a viable alternative for millions of kids who have two working parents during times they’d otherwise be in school.
 
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But we still don’t have a viable alternative
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While I do agree with you, I’m still not sure why that falls at the feet of the education system and specifically teachers being thrown under the proverbial bus.
 
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The mortality rate is dropping while the number of cases are increasing. I have read the links provided and understand factually the risk of children dying from Covid-19 are less(.01%) than some over 65(23%) with health conditions. (i am going from memory with those numbers so they may be slightly off)

But I still wouldnt want my grandchildren in a class room.
 
The issue with flu vaccine’s effectiveness in any given year has to do with the strain. Every vaccine is for the strain that is expected to spread through the US that year. It’s an educated guess. If it isn’t the same one the vaccine will be much less effective.
 
No typo nor blaming China for the trumpvirus. way too many lives lost for pretending.
 
It’s a good thing Donald Trump is President. After Trump banned foreigners’ travel from China, Trump banned travel of foreigners from Europe.
Joe Biden tweeted just one day after the travel ban went into effect, “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.”

Trump took the pandemic seriously. Democrats did not.
 
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It’s a good thing Donald Trump is President. After Trump banned foreigners’ travel from China, Trump banned travel of foreigners from Europe.
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When he banned travel from China he let 40,000 + US citizens and green card holders return from China WITHOUT them being quarantined when they arrived back in the US.
He was LATE banning travel from Europe and that paid a big price. New York which became the epicenter of covid-19 got the virus from Europe, not directly from China.
 
Because it’s their job to be there during the scheduled school year doing their job educating kids and providing a safe environment for that task.

If these teenagers can go to work at McDonald’s and Pizza Hut through this pandemic and their parents can go do their jobs the teachers should go do theirs.
 
RhodesianSon said:
Because it’s their job to be there during the scheduled school year doing their job educating kids and providing a safe environment for that task.

If these teenagers can go to work at McDonald’s and Pizza Hut through this pandemic and their parents can go do their jobs the teachers should go do theirs.
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It’s also my job to do my work during the day, but I can do it from home so I’ve been directed to. We figured out that teachers can do their job via the web too last spring.

I don’t know too many Pizza Huts that can operate remotely, so I’m not exactly sure what that has to do with it… Your example upthread was a prime example with why I’m cool starting with distance learning. I personally don’t need high risk kids in a classroom with my kids, with me if I was a teacher or a teaching spouse. Especially when social distancing is going to be near impossible.
 
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But those post are well past TDS. Also it is estimated that as many as 50,000,000 american have or had cover-19. I know 2 men in their 20’s that had it for weeks and never knew it until they went and were tested.

If 50 million americans have had it, then the mortality rate is less than 1%. Which is much better than the 5% that was being reported in June
 
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Summer camps and day care programs.

Guess what isn’t open for the same reason schools are trying to use.
 
His wife worked night shift, but they’re closing the Covid floor she’s on right now in a few weeks due to lack of patients, so she’ll have to go back to her regular day shift schedule.
 
How is that any different than having schools open? Why should that baby sitter have to be at “risk” but not a teacher who’s literal job it is to teach and educate from August to May every year? Why do teachers get a pass. . . .
 
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