Here is why we should close schools now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the PPs above that report keeping your kids at home already - are they immunocompromised or are you concerned about them in particular?
Just curious what factors go into each individual decision.

One kid has upcoming surgery, I’ve got an autoimmune disease (thankfully mild so far), and 2/4 local elderly grandparents aren’t in great health.

[Anonymous]

Just wrote to my school district and hope you do the same. Here's a FCPS link: https://fcpsinfo.fcps.edu/arsys/forms/CASEAPPROD/F...rica%2FDetroit&cacheid=a7bed9b

[Anonymous]

I just informed my FCPS school teachers and principal via e-mail that my two children will not be coming into school indefinitely

[Anonymous]

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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.

The economy, built on people over consuming goods and services, is going to tank no matter what. Low wage workers are going to lose their jobs, in large numbers. Nobody needs a server when the restaurant is empty. Shutting things down now, intentionally, just saves lives. We can’t save the economy, it’s already too late. The system is broken, and this crisis is just bringing it into stark relief. We can’t make health policy based on economic policy. People who don’t have savings and can’t afford to miss paychecks are going to suffer. Not shutting down now just temporarily gives them a reprieve. But the axe is still going to fall.

[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.

The economy, built on people over consuming goods and services, is going to tank no matter what. Low wage workers are going to lose their jobs, in large numbers. Nobody needs a server when the restaurant is empty. Shutting things down now, intentionally, just saves lives. We can’t save the economy, it’s already too late. The system is broken, and this crisis is just bringing it into stark relief. We can’t make health policy based on economic policy. People who don’t have savings and can’t afford to miss paychecks are going to suffer. Not shutting down now just temporarily gives them a reprieve. But the axe is still going to fall.

All bc of ppl eating bats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wrote to my school district and hope you do the same. Here's a FCPS link: https://fcpsinfo.fcps.edu/arsys/forms/CASEAPPROD/F...rica%2FDetroit&cacheid=a7bed9b

You’d be better off petitioning your health department, because they are the ones that the schools are listening to, not parents.

[Anonymous]

There is also unemployment insurance.

[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.

What’s disgusting and self centered is being ok with people dying. DYING. The kids wind die by staying gone for a while. Shane on you.

Oh, can it. Karen screeching on DCUM from her isolated mansion (while undoubtedly refusing to pay her housekeeper) saves literally no lives.

This post is so crazy. Karen isn’t the one who’s going to suffer here. Even if the schools stay open, and everyone in Karen’s immediate family gets sick, they’re all in the lowest risk category. They’ll get sick, complain incessantly about how awful it is, but will be back on their feet in a month, having lost no wages and no jobs, but bummed that the trip to Paris they’d planned for this Spring Break was ruined.

Her housekeeper? Not so lucky. Has pre-diabetes and uncontrolled high blood pressure. When she presents at the ER after they’re overrun, she will be assessed as lower priority for care. When she dies, her family will be left without their mother and their main breadwinner, in a horrible financial situation and without their main financial and emotional support.

So, maybe, just maybe, Karen believes in science and knows she’s likely going to be just fine, but is terrified for OTHERS who will not fare so well.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The economy, built on people over consuming goods and services, is going to tank no matter what. Low wage workers are going to lose their jobs, in large numbers. Nobody needs a server when the restaurant is empty. Shutting things down now, intentionally, just saves lives. We can’t save the economy, it’s already too late. The system is broken, and this crisis is just bringing it into stark relief. We can’t make health policy based on economic policy. People who don’t have savings and can’t afford to miss paychecks are going to suffer. Not shutting down now just temporarily gives them a reprieve. But the axe is still going to fall.

No. 70% of China’s economy is back online now and they have far fewer remote-capable workers than us.

Test test test and quarantine. If we did that we could limit the damage.

But Traitor Trump is too worried about himself and too incompetent to try to fix it.

[Anonymous]

In all fairness if some people insist on sending kids to school shy don’t they? But let the rest people go. Oh and btw, they should pay for keeping the school running out of their pocket as it is huge cost. Any teachers who get sick or families of those who die should have a right to sue the group for damages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In all fairness if some people insist on sending kids to school shy don’t they? But let the rest people go. Oh and btw, they should pay for keeping the school running out of their pocket as it is huge cost. Any teachers who get sick or families of those who die should have a right to sue the group for damages.

That’s not how any of this works.

[Anonymous]

So the people already keeping kids home...none of you work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the people already keeping kids home...none of you work?

I only work half the year, so it's a great time to be off and not risk, you know, DEATH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the people already keeping kids home...none of you work?

I only work half the year, so it's a great time to be off and not risk, you know, DEATH

Oh well. Too bad for the rest of us that work, I guess.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the people already keeping kids home...none of you work?

I only work half the year, so it's a great time to be off and not risk, you know, DEATH

Oh well. Too bad for the rest of us that work, I guess.

It actually is too bad