Reply to Here is why we should close schools now.

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Here is why we should close schools now."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Keep the schools open, but lots of other risk areas we are simply ignoring , why ? Why just take a  reflective action that dissproportionately impacts HS students that are low risk?  To  make ourselves feel like we are " doing something " when really , we continue to have our big CPAC conventions and our political rallies and fund raising dinners with all these people over 50 mingling across state lines ???

That's really weak on execution and planning and is just knee . jerk if you asked me.

**** as for how to intelligently deal with schools, don't just knee jerk close the schools, but rather have kids attend ( they are VERY low risk) , but have those teachers who are 60+ as well as those teachers who smoke or who underlying heath conditions tele teach to their MS/ HS classrooms ( assembled at school)

All  outdoor HS Athletic events go on as planned, but no spectators

Its the 21st Century and technology gives us lots of options better than closing schools. A few of them:

First, all cruise ships bookings and permissions to dock at any port should be banned by Federal order ( these are just floating germ farms and most of the cases in US can be traced to Cruise ships )
   
    1) close movie theatres , play sporting events with no fans in attendance and  cancel all indoor conventions, business meetings where adults in high risk group mingle ( across state lines) ie CPAC/ AIPAC 
    2) ban all political rallies
    3) close religious services
     4) no adult over 60 should be allowed to visit a school and , if they teach there they should tele teach

5) All  outdoor HS Athletic events go on as planned, but no spectators

UBER/ Lyft should be banned in every city in the USA . Go back to taxi companies who's employees have sick pay and health insurance ( people without sick pay, who won't be able to earn a living if they don't take riders who are picking up travelers from airports, out of state and riding with them in a close space

[/quote]

I can see you put a lot of thought into this, but it’s just not going to work. Closing all major gatherings except for the largest one in the town that takes place every day is going to negate all other measures. The kids will still be infected and feeling fine and spreading it to their households and thereby the greater community. We also don’t know how kids with asthma and other underlying conditions will fare with the virus. [b]Closing everything is really the only solution[/b]. Health and life needs to come above education and commerce right now. [/quote]

We aren't going to shut America down.  There will be no support from the government (state or Federal) to do this because of the fear about what it would do to the economy.  The most they will do is give federal employees more flexibility for teleworking, but they'll likely drag their feet on that so as to delay any negative inferences from the government making that decision. It's a calculated call.  The only people who will ultimately care, sadly, will be the families of unfortunate 1-2 percent who die.  If the mortality rate was closer to 20 percent, maybe you'd see things being shut down. [/quote]

Why not let those parents who want to keep kids at home and homeschool to do so to keep safe elderly at home from the kids exposure? Why the one size fits all? Why individual can not decide for their  family and kids life?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics