Am I the only bad guy? (Keep your teens home!)

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously, people. This is a big deal. Take it seriously. It's not even been a week. You can't keep your kids at home for a week?

Did you read the CDC guidelines? Of course we can keep our kids home for a week. But where will this end? After 4 weeks? 12 weeks? 20 weeks?

I know. But can't everyone try hard for two weeks and see where we are? If everyone took it seriously immediately that's our best hope for it not dragging out 20 weeks. I can't believe all these people who can't do this for even a short amount of time.

Plus they make it harder on those of us who are keeping kids home. my teen KNOWS her friends are getting together. What can i say except I'm sorry but those parents are not responsible?

This is exactly what I say, PP. The next two weeks will be critical. We will either be seriously tanking or, just maybe, seeing some signs of hope.

I am being adamant with my teens and, fortunately, most of their parents are as well. It helps that DS15, for whatever reason, has an unusually high number of friends with parents who are medical professionals. They have slapped some sense into many of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Groups < 10?

You are doing isolation when the govt ask for social distancing.

The government? I follow science and facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic

This is hilarious! You follow science and facts, but show a link to a Wiki page. Seriously? At least use a scientific journal or source.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen this? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/considerations-for-school-closure.pdf

Seriously. Read the guidelines. I think we are making a mistake.

This Santa Clara County Mitigation from the CDC is almost contradictory. They do NOT say that school should resume as is (or once was). They said cancel assemblies, stagger recess and start times, limit all classroom mixing, temperature checks, and finally...to consider distance learning. We also have to consider the implications of filtering out, or leaving behind, those children who are immunocompromised.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/california-santa-clara-county.html

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Uh huh. And they are not recommending that schools be closed. Adjusted yes, but not closed.