I’m getting nervous about school because of delta
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Anonymous
NP. There are a growing number of parents of ES students who are carefully watching what is happening in other school districts. While some may be okay allowing Covid to run its course, many parents are not, especially with the under-12 vaccine potentially so close. |
Anonymous
| Aren't you more likely to get killed by lightning while being attacked by a shark on land and win the lottery? |
Anonymous
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/04/pediatrician-covid-children-delta/
“Even if the delta variant is no more virulent in children than the original virus was, the sheer numbers will translate into more children being admitted to the hospital with covid and covid-related illnesses. As school reopenings coincide with the growth of the delta variant, I worry we will see large outbreaks in school settings that we didn’t see with less-contagious versions of the virus.“ “ Over the course of the pandemic, our hospital system has diagnosed more than 15,000 children and adolescents with covid — a number that is trending up. About 10 percent of them have required hospital admission. Up to one-third of children admitted to our hospital have required critical care — including oxygen delivered through high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive ventilation, and intubation with mechanical ventilation. When I discharge children from the hospital, I know that many of them have a long road to recovery, and many will require follow-up for cardiac clearance and long-term care in our hospital’s long-covid clinic. More than 300 children across the United States have died of covid since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most children with covid will make a complete recovery, but up to 10 percent, including those with mild illness not requiring hospital admission, go on to develop months-long symptoms of long covid.” |
Anonymous
I’m a teacher and I hated virtual learning because it was basically talking solo to black squares and the mofo kids cheating their way thru. However, I’ll take fall virtual and just chill the rest of 2021. |
Anonymous
Uh huh. Are you a PE teacher? |
Anonymous
| HS teacher here. Last year, I thought they should have opened elementary school and kept MS and HS closed fall semester. This year, I think they should open HS and maybe MS but keep ES closed. |
Anonymous
Despite this cynical view, I agree with some of the sentiment. It's time to go 100 percent virtual. We cannot gamble our childrens' lives away. Until kids can be vaccinated AND THEY DO IT, it is not safe to open schools. |
Anonymous
I imagine we’d be hard pressed to find a district starting off 100% virtual this fall. If we go virtual I might be done. ES Teacher |
Anonymous
Nah, see you in school in a couple weeks… |
Anonymous
| Omfg stop. School is opening. |
Anonymous
Ahhh, you're the first to move this goal post. What's the next play? |
Anonymous
Nah, y’all just wanna play the victim again. Ain’t nobody asking for anything more than masks & vaccines. |
Anonymous
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So, wait. UK had school going until 7/25 with delta happening (then summer break). In school spread was estimated at around 4% based on the contact testing study. But you all are going to believe some random model over real life data?
This is one of the big problems with our pandemic response in a freaking nutshell. Always choose the real-world data. Always. |
Anonymous
I’m a new teacher and just joined the teacher Facebook group and wow, a lot of teachers are unsure and wanting to start virtual. I can’t. Being new is hard enough. Can’t do virtual. I would fail the kids so bad. |
Anonymous
I'm not part of that FB group, but no teacher I know wants to teach virtually. Not me, not my spouse, not my teammates... |