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

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Drew S. said:
Schools should never have closed https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/more-70-us-household-covid-spread-started-child-study-suggests
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In-person school contributed to transmission


"More than 70% of transmissions in households with adults and children were from a pediatric index case, but this percentage fluctuated weekly," the study authors wrote. "Once US schools reopened in fall 2020, children contributed more to inferred within-household transmission when they were in school, and less during summer and winter breaks, a pattern consistent for 2 consecutive school years."

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The authors concluded that children had an important role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and that in-person school also resulted in substantial spread. "Future work could validate the inferred transmissions from a participatory network with onsite visits or other contract-tracing outreach for additional data collection and laboratory confirmation," they wrote. "Any system that leverages digital technologies must make every effort to ensure equitable access."
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Drew was just bothered cause he had to look after his kids for a while, instead of having teachers do it.

So inconvenienced. Drew, a real man would have made his wife do it. And fetch him a beer.
 
There has always been a substantial amount of "nuh uh!" in conservative beliefs - rejecting new ideas is a literal core concept of a conservative philosophy - but it seems to have become not just a central tenet of modern American conservatism, but the only tenet.

So look at Covid. Many, many millions dead. Lives destroyed. Society changed. And the right wing looks at that and says "nah it was fine".
 
Swansong said:
There has always been a substantial amount of "nuh uh!" in conservative beliefs - rejecting new ideas is a literal core concept of a conservative philosophy - but it seems to have become not just a central tenet of modern American conservatism, but the only tenet.

So look at Covid. Many, many millions dead. Lives destroyed. Society changed. And the right wing looks at that and says "nah it was fine".
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I disagree on the last point. Based on how they handled it, "fine" may be the word they would use, but I see it as the goal.

Remember, at the outset, most of the dying were in minorities and places where D's had a big advantage- so it was in their interest to make them die for reasons they could get away with. Once that died down, they could not go back and pretend to care.

Basically, drew read the article correctly, and wanted the increased spread, suffering, and deaths because that's what they wanted all along.
 
When COVID first started, there was a genuine consensus among the government, and the populace as a whole, that this was something scary, serious, and drastic steps needed to be done to control and ameliorate its affects. Hence, shutdowns and large cash infusions to help people get by during them.

That changed though, after about a month or two, and you had those studies coming out that those mostly affected by the virus were the poors, the minorities, the low wage people on the front lines of the economy. Now suddenly you got those cries to open back up, get back to life as usual, end the shutdowns, get the kids back in schools.

I find it hard to believe those two things are unrelated. Those people were expendable, we could tolerate those losses.
 
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rufus said:
When COVID first started, there was a genuine consensus among the government, and the populace as a whole, that this was something scary, serious, and drastic steps needed to be done to control and ameliorate its affects. Hence, shutdowns and large cash infusions to help people get by during them.

That changed though, after about a month or two, and you had those studies coming out that those mostly affected by the virus were the poors, the minorities, the low wage people on the front lines of the economy. Now suddenly you got those cries to open back up, get back to life as usual, end the shutdowns, get the kids back in schools.

I find it hard to believe those two things are unrelated. Those people were expendable, we could tolerate those losses.
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You forgot: Get those wage slaves back in the cotton fields. Massuh's gotta buy a new yacht, er....eat, I mean!
 
rufus said:
That changed though, after about a month or two, and you had those studies coming out that those mostly affected by the virus were the poors, the minorities, the low wage people on the front lines of the economy.
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Nailed it. That's exactly what happened.
 
It isn't like it has gone away but the people dying, getting really sick or with long covid are not the people who 'matter'. Saw a lovely study this morning that was linking the States with the most chronic poverty with access to healthcare. Duh. You all get 1 guess which States these were and no one will fail.
 
leswp1 said:
It isn't like it has gone away but the people dying, getting really sick or with long covid are not the people who 'matter'. Saw a lovely study this morning that was linking the States with the most chronic poverty with access to healthcare. Duh. You all get 1 guess which States these were and no one will fail.
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MS and AL?
 
The "dark horse" I'd guess is NM. It's not the usual red state hell, but it has tons of Native Americans living in poverty that makes Cabrini-Green look like Monaco.
 
To nobody's surprise:

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dxmnkd316 said:
I just assumed West Virginia was always stupid enough to step on their own dicks every time. But as I recall, didn't they accept Medicaid expansion? Anyways, Texas wouldn't be surprising either. Nor would any of the gulf states.
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Tx wins the prize for worst
 
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