Here is why we should close schools now.

[Anonymous]

For all those who keep screaming keep the schools open, here is what someone said about this..

Our schools are like Titanic. The pandemic is like an iceberg.

The people in the first class are saying:
“Let’s get enough lifeboats for everyone and lets get everyone out of the ship NOW! Before it will be too late!!!

The people in the second class are saying:
“There are not enough boats for us!!! Lets everybody stay on the ship and keep the course.
We all are going to be just fine. The boat is nice and big and dry and cozy, we all have all that need here,
Stay the course. Science is with us. Not everyone is going to die.

[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

That link doesn’t work

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe Virginia only has 409 tests for the whole state, and they are hoping to get..600. That’s insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe Virginia only has 409 tests for the whole state, and they are hoping to get..600. That’s insane.

Pence said we’d have a million on Monday!

[Anonymous]

This is one time I wish my kids went to private school. They have to keep going to school, risk being exposed to the virus and also infecting my elderly parents while the private school kids can stay at home with their sahm. I’m a bit jealous.

[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.

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.

MOST with coronavirus are actually not dying. More, MANY more KIDS die from the flu than the coronavirus- it actually seems to be sparing kids. Yes be careful, but stop spreading fear.

[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.

Not true. Families who are out of work are going to experience stress, lowered immunity. Poor health at this time in a large sector of society sounds like a bad idea to me. No money to pay for water to wash your hands. Or cleaning supplies. Turning to elderly relatives for help out of necessity, and exposing them.

This is a big math problem with a lot of variables. Let’s let people with the data and training work it out, unless you are confident you can solve it the right way. Advocating for the wrong policies in this situation will kill us.

[Anonymous]

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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

Well, at least someone in China got to eat bat soup.

Some estimated 60K students single child or .all siblings are old enough to stay at home alone. Middle schoolers, high schoolers do not need supervision. Another good batch is a group of HS or MS older siblings with late elementary siblings who they babysit daily anyway.

[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.

Not true. Families who are out of work are going to experience stress, lowered immunity. Poor health at this time in a large sector of society sounds like a bad idea to me. No money to pay for water to wash your hands. Or cleaning supplies. Turning to elderly relatives for help out of necessity, and exposing them.

This is a big math problem with a lot of variables. Let’s let people with the data and training work it out, unless you are confident you can solve it the right way. Advocating for the wrong policies in this situation will kill us.

Not really. the math is really simple.
School closing benefits THE ENTIRE SOCIETY BY MINIMIZING EXPOSURE AND SPREAD
therefore the whole society should contribute, make allowances and necessary sacrifices to support all students and their parents and keep them financially and logistically afloat through the epidemics.

[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.

Not true. Families who are out of work are going to experience stress, lowered immunity. Poor health at this time in a large sector of society sounds like a bad idea to me. No money to pay for water to wash your hands. Or cleaning supplies. Turning to elderly relatives for help out of necessity, and exposing them.

This is a big math problem with a lot of variables. Let’s let people with the data and training work it out, unless you are confident you can solve it the right way. Advocating for the wrong policies in this situation will kill us.

Not really. the math is really simple.
School closing benefits THE ENTIRE SOCIETY BY MINIMIZING EXPOSURE AND SPREAD
therefore the whole society should contribute, make allowances and necessary sacrifices to support all students and their parents and keep them financially and logistically afloat through the epidemics.

If you are suggesting the state should take the cost, then yes, that is the only workable solution. In China and Japan people who had to take parental leave for the quarantine were subsidized by local or national government. Given that will not be the situation here, the same policy (school closure) will have different effects. Net positive or negative depends on many variables. Again, given that we have no unemployment plan or healthcare plan to protect most of the population.

[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.

MOST with coronavirus are actually not dying. More, MANY more KIDS die from the flu than the coronavirus- it actually seems to be sparing kids. Yes be careful, but stop spreading fear.

How is it possible that people still did not get their facts..what.. month and a half later?.

[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.

Not true. Families who are out of work are going to experience stress, lowered immunity. Poor health at this time in a large sector of society sounds like a bad idea to me. No money to pay for water to wash your hands. Or cleaning supplies. Turning to elderly relatives for help out of necessity, and exposing them.

This is a big math problem with a lot of variables. Let’s let people with the data and training work it out, unless you are confident you can solve it the right way. Advocating for the wrong policies in this situation will kill us.

Not really. the math is really simple.
School closing benefits THE ENTIRE SOCIETY BY MINIMIZING EXPOSURE AND SPREAD
therefore the whole society should contribute, make allowances and necessary sacrifices to support all students and their parents and keep them financially and logistically afloat through the epidemics.

If you are suggesting the state should take the cost, then yes, that is the only workable solution. In China and Japan people who had to take parental leave for the quarantine were subsidized by local or national government. Given that will not be the situation here, the same policy (school closure) will have different effects. Net positive or negative depends on many variables. Again, given that we have no unemployment plan or healthcare plan to protect most of the population.

Yes, pretty much.
You see.. a whole lot of dead and or incapacitated tax payers come with one problem. They do not generate revenue. So at the end of the day a smart government invest in protecting “subjects” if not for the love of them, then to keep the buck coming once this blows over.

[Anonymous]

Will FCPS follow LCPS suit and close? I wonder why LCPS closed first? Less students? Wealthier families?

[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.

We need to stop the spread. I know someone will say what difference does it make if your two kids are kept home when thousands of others are going but every little bit helps. Maybe if enough people do the same it will put pressure on more districts to close

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

We need to stop the spread. I know someone will say what difference does it make if your two kids are kept home when thousands of others are going but every little bit helps. Maybe if enough people do the same it will put pressure on more districts to close

First of all, besides being the proper public health decision to close schools, I have a newborn at home and an elderly relative living with us for the next few months. When I read all the crap on facebook and twitter like "But but but think about the poor people with no food! Think about us folks who have jobs and have to work! Don't close schools" I realized this had become a politicized issue that is probably clouding officials' judgments. Like, I'm sorry that you have a rough life but I am not putting my family, young and old, at risk because poor people have a rough life. I'm keeping my kids home