It seems like it worked well. They waited it out till COVID-19 became less serious. Sounds sensible to me. There was always mental health, there will always be mental health issues, and suicides and other things went down during covid. Learning loss is a joke as it is due to the change in curriculum, bad new teaching styles and parents not enforcing their kids to attend school and do homework. If you were worried about learning loss, you could have supplemented at home, and/or, many school systems had free tutoring. |
It doesn't matter how cautious anyone is when about 50% of infections are asymptomatic. If you want to be part of society, you're going to get covid. All you have control over is whether you're going to be vaccinated before you do. |
More cautious? Damn, my fam cannot win on this board! We're "mentally ill" for vaxxing completely and masking indoors, but you want me to be more cautious because you can't figure out how to get a shot? Go to a clinic that has an ER then. You may have to pay for the privilege. That's healthcare here. There isn't a whole lot more I can do for you, PP. You are barking up the wrong tree. |
Incorrect. You can also mask. And if you're concerned, you should. |
because it's 'just a cold' to some lucky bastards, and they make the rules now. Nobody can force common sense or common decency. This is just how it is. |
You can, but unless you're going to wear respirators whenever you're around others, you're going to eventually get covid. |
OT, but yes, this. Blaming learning loss on the pandemic is some smooth politics. |
Again, 50% of infections or more are asymptomatic. These people would have no way to know they're infected and possibly contagious. |
I love the ongoing idiocy of "you're going to get it anyway, so just do it raw and get it now". So stupid! |
That's not my plan, or the plan of any person I know. For most people the plan, which they started following at least 12-18 months ago, was to just go back to normal life pre-pandemic and not worry about it anymore. |
No, it wasn't the pandemic that caused learning loss. It was the decisions of schools boards and teachers unions to keep schools closed for so long. The pandemic didn't cause that-- people making poor decisions did. |
They make these things called "tests". If people used them before going into crowded public spaces (concerts, planes, god forbid schools after holiday breaks when they'd traveled), and masked, the numbers would be lower and conditions would be safer. But that would require care. Nobody cares. The thing about not caring about others is that nobody ends up caring about you either. Why go down that road at all? |
I think most people here would say to get vaccinated if you're still immunologically naive to covid. |
Right. Teachers should just risk death to teach your kid. Fock you, pp. The pandemic pointed out how egregiously this country relies on public education as childcare for the benefit of big business. Don't blame teachers for pushing back against that, especially considering how little they get paid. |
You want people to test en mass when they don't have any reason to think they're sick? Weird. And apparently mask forever, even when they're not sick? Neither of those are going to happen. The sooner you accept that the sooner you can come up with a workable strategy for yourself. |