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Yale Doc Backing HCQ Cites Questionable Data
Negative results from randomized trials not even acknowledged
www.medpagetoday.com
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The frustrating part is that when people say ‘education’ they mean ‘schooling’I am so conflicted on this - I am grateful to see so many parents involved and concerned about their kids' education. And sensing the importance of school in general. And yet, at the same time, I can't help but be resentful of the degradation of the public system in key areas vis a vis equity and access. And people continuing to disregard the latter while rhetorically supporting the former.
This is the most serious I've seen national attention become around education, and we still can't seem to coalesce around its importance. The inefficiencies of the bureaucracy, the bloat, the gatekeeping, the hurdles and hoops, the impotence of teachers, the capriciousness of political leaders making decisions independent of educators' input (this last one is happening up here, too, incidentally - our Minister of Education is a sycophant with no experience in education whatsoever), and so on.
Months ago, I felt like we were at a moment where something real could come from this, but suspected it wouldn't. And it hasn't.
And anytime I try to find out an answer - esp back home - it's always the same answer: "You need to talk to X, I'm in charge of Y."
There's no leadership in education, no vision. What we are seeing is the degree to which mid-management administrators aren't actually administering enough in a time when we need administering. It's someone else's job, someone else's department.
Schools, right *now*, need to be planning on not being in school and conducting teaching online. Discussions with tech companies and comm companies needed to be had two months ago. Plans for food delivery to students need to be in place.
I don't see how most places in the US who are going to open are actually going to be able to or, if they do, stay open for long.
We're in a really good position up here, and I suspect we'll be in another virtual learning atmosphere before we get out of September.
Yale Doc Backing HCQ Cites Questionable Data
Negative results from randomized trials not even acknowledgedwww.medpagetoday.com
Yale Doc Backing HCQ Cites Questionable Data
Negative results from randomized trials not even acknowledgedwww.medpagetoday.com
just to follow up on the post above, re: a short lived re-opening
New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
Two new studies from different parts of the world arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well.www.forbes.com
this is alarming:
I posted both of those studies earlier on the thread. I posted both of them on Facebook. I sent both of them to my kids’ school administrators.
I don’t think it matters in the slightest.
sorry. I went back a couple of pages to see if it had been and didn’t see. I guess I didn’t go back far enough or slid over it
I wasn’t saying you shouldn’t have posted them. They should be posted multiple times.
I understand that there’s adversity for kids and families in not going to school. I get it and I’m experiencing it. The part that troubles me is that the open-school advocates are downplaying the Covid risk. The risk is substantial and it’s unknown.
The issue is that too many people consider school as daycare... at least in this area I am in. So many people are upset because "teachers are getting paid to do virtual". They don't complain about all the people that's been working from home for months.