Reply to "Without mitigation, they predict that 80% of elementary students will be infected within 2 months"

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to ""Without mitigation, they predict that 80% of elementary students will be infected within 2 months""

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who post these scare-monger if threads with headlines that don’t make sense or are misleading (as many PPs have pointed out, we have many mitigation strategies in place, including mandatory vaccines for adults, masks for all, quarantines for outbreaks, social distancing), should have to explain what Plan B is.

Okay, say we close schools preemptively again because of reports like this, instead of trying mitigation and seeing that can enable us to keep schools open. Then what? How do we make sure working families have childcare? It’s not like last year when employers were understanding and more people were WFH. Now a lot of parents are back in offices and employers are explicitly requiring them to have childcare. Obviously some people can afford that but many of us can’t. Also, it’s unrealistic that everyone’s hiring a nanny or tutor, right? Which means kids will be going into group care, which is … just like school in terms of Covid risk! Plus we also still face the problems of disparate impact in learning loss, pulling lowers SES kids further and further behind. Plus the social implications for kids, which are real and get worse daily.

So fine, post these stupid context-less headlines and try to freak everyone out. But you have to explain what your alternative is then. “Close schools” is what we have been doing. Not sure if you noticed, but it has not worked. So what’s YOUR plan?[/quote]
[b]Denying the risks of mass infection of our children is what is actually stupid. Doctors are concerned that there aren’t enough PICU beds or enough staff for the coming surge when we open schools-cities like Dallas already have ZERO available. What is your solution to that? To shrug your shoulders because you need childcare? What’s YOUR solution to the death and long term disability of children? 
The reality is that there should be no group childcare, and no in person schooling, until Delta stops spreading rampantly among the unvaccinated.[/b] [/quote]

Well said and I entirely agree.  [/quote]

With what? If no school and no group childcare, what do you propose working parents do? Are you proposing employers be required to give parents unlimited leave until children can return to school? Are you ready for broad economic relief to both businesses who lose productivity and individuals who wind up not being about to work because all children must stay home? If that is what you are proposing, then say it. You can't have one without the other. You cannot propose we keep all kids home and not create a society-wide plan for what that means for the economy. And you better factor in the fact that many parents have already been through this several times over the last year, and are already at a breaking point financially and in terms of mental health. You better have a plan for that, too. Otherwise I hope you are ready for a host of other public health crises, including family poverty, domestic abuse, depression, even suicide. I am not joking. When you say these things, you need to understand what it actually means for the real people who will be impacted.[/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