Here is why we should close schools now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

When you see some cases start at school, what would you do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

Turning this into a class war is heartbreaking and short-sighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

Paid leave? I think you're missing the point. This thing could tank the economy. The concept of "paid leave" will seem positively quaint in retrospect. This is more like a wartime setting. Get prepared and life is going to shift. Some of these businesses simply won't exist to provide this "paid leave" that you think will help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

Paid leave? I think you're missing the point. This thing could tank the economy. The concept of "paid leave" will seem positively quaint in retrospect. This is more like a wartime setting. Get prepared and life is going to shift. Some of these businesses simply won't exist to provide this "paid leave" that you think will help.

Too bad we could pull together in 1941 and can’t do so in 2020.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

Turning this into a class war is heartbreaking and short-sighted.

But this is DCUM. Class warfare is never more than three posts away...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

Paid leave? I think you're missing the point. This thing could tank the economy. The concept of "paid leave" will seem positively quaint in retrospect. This is more like a wartime setting. Get prepared and life is going to shift. Some of these businesses simply won't exist to provide this "paid leave" that you think will help.

The businesses aren't providing the paid leave in the UK, the government is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the Cathedral Schools (St Albans, NCS and Beauvoir) are closed today. I think many of the families at those schools have contact with Christ Church in Georgetown where the rector was a confirmed case.

Our school is closed today and the stress level I'm feeling is drastically reduced.

That will likely end in about 30 minutes though when I get tired of them screaming at the video games.

It's bad to bribe my 23 year old daughter to pick my son up at college, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

Paid leave? I think you're missing the point. This thing could tank the economy. The concept of "paid leave" will seem positively quaint in retrospect. This is more like a wartime setting. Get prepared and life is going to shift. Some of these businesses simply won't exist to provide this "paid leave" that you think will help.

Too bad we could pull together in 1941 and can’t do so in 2020.

Yeah, well, back then we had some motivating factors that I don’t wish to see repeated. In other words, one country hell bent on dominating the Pacific. Another country hell bent on dominating Europe (and the world) while exterminating an entire ethnic group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.

Paid leave? I think you're missing the point. This thing could tank the economy. The concept of "paid leave" will seem positively quaint in retrospect. This is more like a wartime setting. Get prepared and life is going to shift. Some of these businesses simply won't exist to provide this "paid leave" that you think will help.

Our government needs to engage in a radical and sudden UBI experiment. Send everyone money. Send people with kids no money. It's the right thing to do to prevent community spread to shutter schools, but parents need to be able to take care of their kids.

But I think we all know that's not going to happen. No one is coming to save us. We are on our own. Wash your damn hands.

[Anonymous]

OMG! *more money* not "no money*

[Anonymous]

TEN DAYS AGO in Italy: 1000 cases (similar to what we have in the US currently).

NOW in Italy: 10,000 cases!

This virus explodes fast!

Italy is much smaller, but the cases can just ramp up quickly. That's why shutting down our schools/offices/businesses now makes sense. Usually we think of doing that only AFTER we have a positive infection in our schools or work places. But, with this virus, it's too late to wait for the infection to come that close.

If we want to end up like Italy, then we should keep taking half-measures. If we want to squish down the transmission rates, then we really do need to shut things down.

I normally do NOT advocate for snow days or other sky-is-falling reactions. But, in this case, the science says we need to shut things down very soon to kill off transmission of the virus. It looks like an over-reaction, but it's actually just the RIGHT level of reaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TEN DAYS AGO in Italy: 1000 cases (similar to what we have in the US currently).

NOW in Italy: 10,000 cases!

This virus explodes fast!

Italy is much smaller, but the cases can just ramp up quickly. That's why shutting down our schools/offices/businesses now makes sense. Usually we think of doing that only AFTER we have a positive infection in our schools or work places. But, with this virus, it's too late to wait for the infection to come that close.

If we want to end up like Italy, then we should keep taking half-measures. If we want to squish down the transmission rates, then we really do need to shut things down.

I normally do NOT advocate for snow days or other sky-is-falling reactions. But, in this case, the science says we need to shut things down very soon to kill off transmission of the virus. It looks like an over-reaction, but it's actually just the RIGHT level of reaction.

This +1 million

I'm on here normally complaining when MCPS closes for the damn rain days, even when there is no freakin' snow on the ground. I am not one to advocate for school closures.

But, this needs to be done to slow the spread of the disease so that our system is not overwhelmed.

[Anonymous]

You are so right. Even the communist China did the same thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of disgusting to hear upper middle class people with SAHMs arguing that schools should close. It seems that their voices are loudest on snow days too. For so many lower class and middle class kids, the safest place is at school. There's food, adults and activities. I know many kids sit at home in an unheated apartment watching TV on snow days with little to no food.

Parents shouldn't have to choose between working and staying home with their kids. And during this corona virus, there WON'T be camps you can pay extra to send your kids to.

I totally agree. It's disgusting and self-centered.

It's not disgusting and self-centered, it's mitigation. What is disgusting is that people in this country don't have access to paid leave. The UK just passed a law guaranteeing paid sick leave to their citizens. We should do the same instead of keeping kids in close contact with other kids to enhance community transmission.