Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

[Jeb2020]

Our district has ~27k kids total, lets assume about 2/3 are K-8, so 18k. The online only option for k-8 had 2,300 students register through last Friday and the deadline was yesterday, so pretty safe to guess at least 15% of parents are choosing to not send them back (in an area full of Dumpies). The situation isn't really that hard, we have the whole world as an example of what works and what doesn't. Step 1 is reduce cases before doing all the things that cause them to increase. We've been stuck on step 1.

Hospitals are fine and deaths are back to historical levels.

Now we got ourselves a good ole Casedemic.

 

[Jeb2020]

UNC reverses course and stops in-person classes, while Notre Dame reported another 89 positive coronavirus tests, most traced to yet another off-campus party attended by too many people, none of them wearing masks. I can't WAIT for football to start.

Yeah it’s so nuts. A bunch of 20 somethings testing positive with a PCR test and having zero symptoms.

Shut er’ down.

 

[Jeb2020]

Not sure where the news gets their data- as the state dashboard does not match the news. And I'm just reporting what the state is reporting.

None the less, thinking that over 400 new cases is bad when Florida is somehow ok with 200 DEATHS is stunningly stupid. That's beyond logic.

Florida needs to do something, and they are not.

#HystericalChild ^^^

Florida hasn’t had one day over 200 deaths. And your State is top ten in deaths.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Jeb2020]

Don’t confuse state mandates with their citizens following them.

...one hole in a boat still sinks it

Alpha says it’s working. His State has a mandate for citizens wearing their dirty, bacteria filled masks. Surely a State with a mandate will have more compliance than a State without one. It’s working so well for Michigan they are top 10 in deaths.

But Alpha says Michigan good other places bad.

Aplha is a little #AdultChild


https://mobile.twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1295542689308512258

It would have been valuable to humanity to know this principle of virus epidemiology BEFORE this crisis. Hindsight of course is 20/20 - but this is very basic knowledge that someone should have cited at the very start. The wages of enforcing an Omega Hypothesis.

 

[Kepler]

The K-12 situation is a hard one. Other than just a couple of parents who have a kid who is super at risk, or maybe someone at home who is super at risk, I haven't talked to a single parent that wants anything but in person back to school. Oddly enough, that even includes teachers who have their own kids.

I don't know who these people you're talking to are, but I haven't talked to a single teacher who wants to go back and I've told our (middle school teacher) daughter if she needs to we'll float her as long as she needs if she has to tell her district to DIAF.

Among parents it splits exactly on education: the ones who understand science are holding their kids back, the conservatives are sending them into the whirring blades.

If it wasn't for the risk to teachers this would be almost as good for the gene pool as a war.

 

[WeAreNDHockey]

Among parents it splits exactly on education: the ones who understand science are holding their kids back, the conservatives are sending them into the whirring blades.

While true for large swaths of parents making a decision I think sadly there are others who need their kids to go to school because they don't have jobs that can be done remotely and have no viable safe and affordable options for their kids, other than sending them to schools.

Once again though, the minority are forcing their will on the majority. Most people know sending every kid back to school will be an unmitigated disaster, but the one third of Americans who are brain dead are getting their way in a lot of places.

Again, death on an unprecedented scale is the only thing that will change some of these minds. Some won't be changed even with dead bodies stacked up on the streets but I imagine some would. We're going to putter along and kill a few thousand here every week, and a few thousand more there every week for the foreseeable future. It will get a little better if Biden takes office, but Biden in the White House and a Democratic-controlled Senate ain't gonna make a science denying MAGAt wear a fvcking mask. And no one has the stomach or the balls to order an actual European-style shutdown. Just like the last 5 months, I think this is going to be headline news until at least the summer of 2021.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I don't know who these people you're talking to are, but I haven't talked to a single teacher who wants to go back and I've told our (middle school teacher) daughter if she needs to we'll float her as long as she needs if she has to tell her district to DIAF.

Among parents it splits exactly on education: the ones who understand science are holding their kids back, the conservatives are sending them into the whirring blades.

If it wasn't for the risk to teachers this would be almost as good for the gene pool as a war.

Parenting done right.

 

[WisconsinWildcard]

I don't know who these people you're talking to are, but I haven't talked to a single teacher who wants to go back and I've told our (middle school teacher) daughter if she needs to we'll float her as long as she needs if she has to tell her district to DIAF.

Same. I know a fair number of teachers and not a single one thinks it is the best idea to go back. I have a good friend who is pregnant and teaches kindergarten who is being forced back for in person class. I have basically given her a crash course on PPE and got what I could for her to use (N95, face mask) because the school is only providing a surgical mask.

I expect it will last a week or two...at least that is my hope...before they go to virtual.

 

[Jeb2020]

While true for large swaths of parents making a decision I think sadly there are others who need their kids to go to school because they don't have jobs that can be done remotely and have no viable safe and affordable options for their kids, other than sending them to schools.

Once again though, the minority are forcing their will on the majority. Most people know sending every kid back to school will be an unmitigated disaster, but the one third of Americans who are brain dead are getting their way in a lot of places.

Again, death on an unprecedented scale is the only thing that will change some of these minds. Some won't be changed even with dead bodies stacked up on the streets but I imagine some would. We're going to putter along and kill a few thousand here every week, and a few thousand more there every week for the foreseeable future. It will get a little better if Biden takes office, but Biden in the White House and a Democratic-controlled Senate ain't gonna make a science denying MAGAt wear a fvcking mask. And no one has the stomach or the balls to order an actual European-style shutdown. Just like the last 5 months, I think this is going to be headline news until at least the summer of 2021.

https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/the-worlds-toughest-lockdown-has

“Once hailed as a COVID ‘success story,’ Peru is now the COVID case study that lockdown advocates no longer want to discuss. Lima is on pace to surpass Belgium sometime next week as having the world’s highest COVID deaths per million.”

 

[SJHovey]

I don't know who these people you're talking to are, but I haven't talked to a single teacher who wants to go back and I've told our (middle school teacher) daughter if she needs to we'll float her as long as she needs if she has to tell her district to DIAF.

Among parents it splits exactly on education: the ones who understand science are holding their kids back, the conservatives are sending them into the whirring blades.

If it wasn't for the risk to teachers this would be almost as good for the gene pool as a war.

I wrote that poorly. What I was trying to say is that all of the parents that I've talked to want their kids back in school, even though that obviously means exposing the kids (and the rest of the family at home) to whatever diseases are running through the schools, including Covid. This includes parents who also happen to be teachers.

Any teachers that I know who don't have kids in school have pretty clearly stated that they want distance learning.

 

[rufus]

None the less, thinking that over 400 new cases is bad when Florida is somehow ok with 200 DEATHS is stunningly stupid.

That's our Jebbers.

 

[rufus]

Are you going to upstaff teachers in a hurry to accommodate all those extra classes?

It's insane to me that we waited until August to work any of this out. It was apparent in May/June that this wasn't going away, and we ****ed away the whole summer doing nothing.

Well, it was apparent in January that Covfefe wasn't going away, but we pissed away the whole spring AND summer doing nothing.

Way to go, Donnie.

 

[rufus]

One of the local schools just had three teachers retire rather than go back. I think they were all well above 50, but still. Where do you find replacements on such short notice? Who would want to do that job if they didn't have to?

 

[aparch]

Amazing pretzels Jeb! continues to twist himself into. "This thing is the flu! It will go away with summer heat! Stop being babies and get out doors and tounge punch each others fart boxes in large groups!"

Meanwhile actual scientific data continues to prove that this isn't a flu, summer heat/sun/outdoors didn't kill/lessen the virus, and large gatherings are still a prime spreader of this virus.

*clapping* Bravo Jeb! Continue to bravely p*ss into the wind!

 

[Deleted member 3166]

One of the local schools just had three teachers retire rather than go back. I think they were all well above 50, but still. Where do you find replacements on such short notice? Who would want to do that job if they didn't have to?

I love that some of the same people spouting the "if you don't want to go back, quit" are now doing the "way to leave your school hanging."
i hate these people...

 

[Slap Shot]

Same. I know a fair number of teachers and not a single one thinks it is the best idea to go back. I have a good friend who is pregnant and teaches kindergarten who is being forced back for in person class. I have basically given her a crash course on PPE and got what I could for her to use (N95, face mask) because the school is only providing a surgical mask.

I expect it will last a week or two...at least that is my hope...before they go to virtual.

What's infuriating are the narratives that teachers don't want to go back because they just don't want to work. The mind-numbingly stupid thought process behind such an opinion freaking boggles my mind.

 

[Handyman]

What's infuriating are the narratives that teachers don't want to go back because they just don't want to work. The mind-numbingly stupid thought process behind such an opinion freaking boggles my mind.

Why it fits right in with the rest of their shitty thoughts in teachers...

 

[dxmnkd316]

The murder of Mike Lindell by Anderson Cooper on live TV was amazing.

 

[Kepler]

While true for large swaths of parents making a decision I think sadly there are others who need their kids to go to school because they don't have jobs that can be done remotely and have no viable safe and affordable options for their kids, other than sending them to schools.

Yes, I should have said they wish to hold them back but of course many can't. And the cons worship the death squad called Inequality, which no knocks the homes of the poor and destroys their lives.

Cuz, ya know, freedumb.

 

[Kepler]

What I was trying to say is that all of the parents that I've talked to want their kids back in school, even though that obviously means exposing the kids (and the rest of the family at home) to whatever diseases are running through the schools, including Covid. This includes parents who also happen to be teachers.

And, assuming those parents are not sociopaths, that means those people you know are Dumpies who don't believe it's that big a deal because of what they've heard on the news.

I am very happy to live in a more educated and informed place and only wish all my loved ones did. Not to put too fine a point on it, but we are at risk from you.

Enjoy your freedom and I hope you and the people you care for don't get sick, because a metric sh-t ton of people who think the way you do have and will and, much more unfairly, they've also infected a whole bunch of people who knew better and whose only crime was to be in the wrong place when you did your reckless equivalent of epidemiological drunken driving and plowed into them.