Question about priorities in Reopen DC Plan

[Anonymous]

It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

[Anonymous]

There is no logic here. If there were logic, the elderly/sick would shelter and everyone else - particularly children - would go about their business.

[Anonymous]

Restaurants will be allowed to serve people indoors before playgrounds and pools reopen. There is no logic.

[Anonymous]

Forget the priorities. DC will be reabsorbed into Md. out of economic necessity within a few months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

All the modern pandemics take off when the school are open. It’s the same for the flu. Schools are a major vector of transmission.

[Anonymous]

OMG enough with the schools. We know you don't want to watch your kids -- too bad.

Construction workers are not packed into a 12-foot room with 25 other students for 8 hour days.

They are outside, spread out, often the solo person manning heavy machinery.

Its actually safer to be on a construction crew breathing fresh air than the recycled air classrooms with 3,000 coughing students in the same building.

[Anonymous]

It’s really not a reopen dc plan. It’s a bankrupt all small businesses while leaving a generation uneducated plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG enough with the schools. We know you don't want to watch your kids -- too bad.

Construction workers are not packed into a 12-foot room with 25 other students for 8 hour days.

They are outside, spread out, often the solo person manning heavy machinery.

Its actually safer to be on a construction crew breathing fresh air than the recycled air classrooms with 3,000 coughing students in the same building.

I do not need school to babysit my teen. I want my teen to learn and be in school the way it was meant to be. Not everyone who’s wishing schools would reopen are whining about needing it for childcare. I also want my college to student to be back at school and have the college experience the way it was meant to be. This isn’t about babysitting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

All the modern pandemics take off when the school are open. It’s the same for the flu. Schools are a major vector of transmission.

Actually we don't know that about coronavirus. Schools are a major vector of transmission for influenza virus, but coronavirus is not influenza virus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG enough with the schools. We know you don't want to watch your kids -- too bad.

Construction workers are not packed into a 12-foot room with 25 other students for 8 hour days.

They are outside, spread out, often the solo person manning heavy machinery.

Its actually safer to be on a construction crew breathing fresh air than the recycled air classrooms with 3,000 coughing students in the same building.

I do not need school to babysit my teen. I want my teen to learn and be in school the way it was meant to be. Not everyone who’s wishing schools would reopen are whining about needing it for childcare. I also want my college to student to be back at school and have the college experience the way it was meant to be. This isn’t about babysitting.

The person I was responding to referenced 'children'. Your 16-year-old who is the perfect age to distance learn and can easily grasp the concept of independent learning is not relevant. Neither is the college kid who is an adult.

People experience college in different ways btw. My brother went to a frat-party school. I went to research university and spent a Semester At Sea.

Are our experiences invalid because we did it differently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

Except for those hospitalized with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome?

[Anonymous]

Which is a statistically infinitely small percentage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

Except for those hospitalized with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome?

You mean the infinitesimally small number, so small that it is a statistically insignificant number- a number that is no higher than the number of children who get this during cold and flu season? Yeah, except for those. And I have teenagers who need to get back to school to learn, not because I need childcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems that the main argument for not opening schools is that students, who are generally not at risk from coronavirus, could spread the virus to vulnerable teachers, bus drivers, and family members at home. So schools remain closed and our children suffer major negative effects. Why was construction never halted around this entire city, and it is allowed to continue in Stage 1 unabated. Everyone of those construction workers are much more likely--we know adults carry a larger viral load than children--to everyone they come in contact with: their children, aging parents, spouses, public transportation drivers, the 5 to 6 other people they travel to their jobs in cars with. How can DC prioritize construction over children?

All the modern pandemics take off when the school are open. It’s the same for the flu. Schools are a major vector of transmission.

Actually we don't know that about coronavirus. Schools are a major vector of transmission for influenza virus, but coronavirus is not influenza virus.

So you think all that construction work is outdoors? Okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG enough with the schools. We know you don't want to watch your kids -- too bad.

Construction workers are not packed into a 12-foot room with 25 other students for 8 hour days.

They are outside, spread out, often the solo person manning heavy machinery.

Its actually safer to be on a construction crew breathing fresh air than the recycled air classrooms with 3,000 coughing students in the same building.

+1000 Jesus Christ, people. We’re sorry that you had kids you can’t deal with being around 24 hours a day, but we’re not going to send little Petri dishes to school just so you can get a break from them and then unleash them on to the rest of society. We all know half of you aren’t keeping your kids quarantined anyways and the other half would sue the school system and government to kingdom come if your kid got it at school anyways so there’s no point. I cannot believe the selfishness of the parents that continue to spout on about schools and pools reopening despite common sense.