How would you rate how Mayor Bowser has handled DCPS reopening?

[Anonymous]

The Washington post reports dc’s coronavirus numbers look good

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/coronavirus-dc-maryland-virginia/2020/08/19/d31d441a-e20f-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC look pretty good. The positivity rate is now below 2 percent on a sustained basis which is well within commonly accepted standards for reopening schools. The only reason schools aren’t opening is Bowser refuses to take on the teachers union. If the union has its way, schools will never reopen.

Good. The WTU is right.

Ha

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/08/18/teachers-unions-school-reopening-coronavirus-397997

[Anonymous]

You are using the wrong data. Those are total test results, not total DC resident test results.

You have to divide the number of positive DC cases by the number of DC residents tested. For some reason DC doesn't separate out the first number on their website, but they do report it to the Washington Post, so you can divide those daily case numbers by the daily totals of DC residents tested that DC does include in their spreadsheet.

August 18 had a 8.6 percent positivity rate for DC residents (52 positive tests for DC residents out of 602 DC residents tested).

August 17 was 3.3 percent (53/1624).

August 16 was 3.5 percent (61/1721).

August 15 was 2.9 percent (41/1410).

August 14 was 10.9 percent (94/859).

August 13 was 2.0 percent (65/3249).

August 12 was 4.4 percent (63/1430).

August 11 was 9.7 percent (89/915).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are using the wrong data. Those are total test results, not total DC resident test results.

You have to divide the number of positive DC cases by the number of DC residents tested. For some reason DC doesn't separate out the first number on their website, but they do report it to the Washington Post, so you can divide those daily case numbers by the daily totals of DC residents tested that DC does include in their spreadsheet.

August 18 had a 8.6 percent positivity rate for DC residents (52 positive tests for DC residents out of 602 DC residents tested).

August 17 was 3.3 percent (53/1624).

August 16 was 3.5 percent (61/1721).

August 15 was 2.9 percent (41/1410).

August 14 was 10.9 percent (94/859).

August 13 was 2.0 percent (65/3249).

August 12 was 4.4 percent (63/1430).

August 11 was 9.7 percent (89/915).

Woah. Is this like some weird teachers union disinformation campaign? This not even remotely accurate. This is just a flat out lie. It totally contradicts not only every independent assessment of coronavirus levels in DC, it also contradicts what DC Health Director Dr. Nesbitt herself says about coronavirus in DC (not to mention the Washington post’s reporting). These aren’t even the government’s real numbers (you think there is some secret data that the DC government only reports to the Washington Post. Uh, what?). Johns Hopkins is the gold standard on this issue. They say the long term positivity rate in DC is now 1.73 percent.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/testing-positivity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The coronavirus numbers in DC look pretty good. The positivity rate is now below 2 percent on a sustained basis which is well within commonly accepted standards for reopening schools. The only reason schools aren’t opening is Bowser refuses to take on the teachers union. If the union has its way, schools will never reopen.

Good. The WTU is right.

Ha

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/08/18/teachers-unions-school-reopening-coronavirus-397997

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both Bowser and Nesbitt have said there are three things that are keeping our coronavirus numbers unacceptably high: out-of-DC travel, large gatherings and indoor dining.

DC cannot really do anything to forbid travel, and its quarantine rules for those who travel to hotspots are completely unenforceable.

DC has shown zero interest in cracking down on large gatherings despite having a rule against them, so those won't be ending anytime soon. Bowser is too much of a coward to demand that MPD step in. She seriously said it's the ANCs' responsibility to get people to stop throwing big parties. The ANCs, in case you forgot, have zero actual power.

That leaves indoor dining, gyms and the like. Bowser could shut them down with one stroke of the pen, yet refuses to do so and makes every excuse in the book not to. It's literally the one coronavirus driver that she has control over and she's doing nothing to stop it.

She's an utter failure.

CM Silverman (whom I usually find obnoxious) basically echoed this line of thinking today: "We can take action as a government to prevent the spread. We can’t go into your house or your backyard but we can say indoor dining is closed.

"There are multiple ways reduce cases, but not all are actionable or enforceable through policy."

https://twitter.com/EmilyG_DC/status/1296501676287959041

[Anonymous]

The whole council bears responsibility if they are willing to keep children out of school while indoor dining continues.