Common sense people.

[boston bean]

Sending kids back to school, grammar, middle, high school, college will cause cases to skyrocket. This is how it spreads. It is how the common cold spreads.

My goodness how is it even a question. There is nothing new about this virus that would change this FACT.

Trump and his sycophantic cronies lie. They don’t give a shit.

Keep your kids at home. For their safety and your own and your families!

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm really tired of politicos bastardizing the science & misrepresenting AAP's statements on this

The American Academy of Pediatrics does stress the importance of in-person education and social development--as they have for decades. As they have physical fitness. But one doesn't reap those benefits if one develops COVID-19 with lifetime health aftermaths or worse--fatality, any more than one reaps the physical education benefits if one is sent out to run in the path of an angry grizzly bear.


As resistant as domestic animals (especially dogs) appear to be to COVID-19, I'd still be reluctant to send a service dog into one of those packed schools with few or no masks worn or other protections. I surely wouldn't send my child.

That said, what the hell choice are we giving those who must work, who have no means of childcare or technological access to online learning? Our country is a mess.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. "My goodness how is this even a question?"

My sentiments exactly.

We knew in March this is where we would be. All these bogus questions (can children transmit the virus?)* are costing us any gains we have made in containing this viral outbreak.

*c’mon, man...of course kids transmit germs. Easily. Everybody knows this!

[Claustrum]

3. I don't necessarily think sending kids back to school is bad

A lot of other countries have done it for months and the spread is limited or non-existent. However, they did it with a much much much lower rate of inflection and they did it with a lot of prevention, classroom outside, much smaller class size, mask, etc.

The problem is with our sky high inflection rate and a sizable number of people who refuse to follow common sense to wear mask, stay away from people, and treating the virus as a real threat. Much like reopening the economy, we could have waited a bit more to lower the curve before opening up and then open with all the prevention methods so the spread is low. But somehow, we can't do that and I have to assume other people has it when I step outside my home. So I can't go back to a "new normal" life, instead, I have to isolate because people refuse to do the bare minimum to keep the virus at a reasonable level.

[hlthe2b]

4. You clearly haven't read about Israel's experience.

[Claustrum]

5. There are also other countries that did it right and have no problem

Clearly, I don't think the US should send kids back to school because we can't get our infection rate down.

Much like reopening our economy, other countries have re-opened and kept their infection rate down. There are minor resurgence and they contact trace, test, isolate those people and keep the virus down again. The problem isn't reopening economy or sending kids back to school. The problem is how we are treating the virus. If 95% of the people treat the virus seriously, follow guidelines, wear mask, social distance, avoid unnecessary close contacts, then we can do all those things that other countries did correctly.

Our problem is the sizable number of people who decided to not care about the virus and prevent others from keeping the rate down.

[uponit7771]

6. It is bad with no sentinel process and high infection rate.