COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (9 Viewers)

[Saint_Ward]

NY with the baby blip...

 

[Optimus Prime]

Interesting read

I remember reading articles that said the impact on the pandemic kids in a lot of was will be felt for years if not decades
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In a normal year, up to half of Christine Jarboe’s first-graders start school knowing how to tie their shoelaces.
But thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, school hasn’t been normal for more than two years.

So when Jarboe welcomed a fresh crop of Fairfax County Public Schools first-graders to her classroom this fall for their first full year of in-person learning, she made a disturbing discovery.
“You’d say, ‘Okay, can you show me how to tie your shoes?’ and most of them would just kind of look at me, like, really confused,” Jarboe said. “They really weren’t sure even where to start.”


It was one of many “missing skills” that Jarboe discovered among her students over the course of the semester. She expected them to show up behind where they should be in academic categories such as reading.

But what she hadn’t counted on was that her children would prove unable to do things such as cutting along a dotted line with scissors. Or squeeze a glue bottle to release an appropriately sized dot. Or simply twist a plastic cap off and on.

In interviews with The Washington Post, teachers around the country shared that they were confronting similar problems, dealing with pre-kindergartners, kindergartners and elementary-school students — as well as some middle-schoolers — who arrived unprepared for the school environment.

Online learning left children, on average, four months behind in mathematics and reading before this school year, according to a McKinsey and Company study released in early April…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/12/pandemic-kids-shoe-tying-social-emotional/

 

[jayd265]

i agree with that.

my daughter was in Kindergarten when the 2020 fiasco hit. went "virtual" (basically no school really) for 1/3 of the year, give or take, to finish it off.

1st grade, end of 2020, beginning of 2021, kids were sent home constantly, so still no "structure" like a normal year.

luckily, end of 2021 to 2022 now, full school. havent had to miss. and shes really grown this year. hopefully it stays this way.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

What the heck is going on with the lockdowns in Shanghai? Rounding up and killing people's dogs and cats(and quite brutally too), people yelling from their rooms they are starving.

 

[Eeyore]

Interesting read

I remember reading articles that said the impact on the pandemic kids in a lot of was will be felt for years if not decades
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In a normal year, up to half of Christine Jarboe’s first-graders start school knowing how to tie their shoelaces.
But thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, school hasn’t been normal for more than two years.

So when Jarboe welcomed a fresh crop of Fairfax County Public Schools first-graders to her classroom this fall for their first full year of in-person learning, she made a disturbing discovery.
“You’d say, ‘Okay, can you show me how to tie your shoes?’ and most of them would just kind of look at me, like, really confused,” Jarboe said. “They really weren’t sure even where to start.”


It was one of many “missing skills” that Jarboe discovered among her students over the course of the semester. She expected them to show up behind where they should be in academic categories such as reading.

But what she hadn’t counted on was that her children would prove unable to do things such as cutting along a dotted line with scissors. Or squeeze a glue bottle to release an appropriately sized dot. Or simply twist a plastic cap off and on.

In interviews with The Washington Post, teachers around the country shared that they were confronting similar problems, dealing with pre-kindergartners, kindergartners and elementary-school students — as well as some middle-schoolers — who arrived unprepared for the school environment.

Online learning left children, on average, four months behind in mathematics and reading before this school year, according to a McKinsey and Company study released in early April…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/12/pandemic-kids-shoe-tying-social-emotional/

Don't parents teach their kids that stuff? I remember my Mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. My teacher didn't have time to teach 40 kids how to do that.

If my mentally ill, drug, and alcohol, abusing Mother could do it, I would assume that"normal" parents would.

 

[buzd]

Don't parents teach their kids that stuff? I remember my Mom teaching me how to tie my shoes. My teacher didn't have time to teach 40 kids how to do that.

I'm pretty sure I learned in kindergarten.

 

[gboudx]

I was home schooled on how to tie my shoes.

 

[bonnjer]

Looking at the Louisiana numbers, it seems like we bottomed out about a week ago and we're now trending toward a slight increase in cases each day. Not sure that it will a massive spike or anything, but a definite increase is happening.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Feds extending the mask mandate for travel for 15 more days. More COVID theatre...

 

[Saint_Ward]

Feds extending the mask mandate for travel for 15 more days. More COVID theatre...

I'm a bit mixed on the air travel mask stuff. Not sure I'd call it theater in certain circumstances.

Cases are low, but air travel is the fastest way to spread to different parts of the country. And, while I've personally said how well the air is filtered on the plane, that's only true when it's flying. When you're boarding, waiting to take off, taxing, it's not filtered much at all. I may be wrong about that, but I'm under the impression it's only really working when you're pressurized and in the air.

Also, while a very loud minority really complain about masks while flying, most of us, who are only mildly annoyed with them just deal with it and some are very happy to keep it going. I still see elderly people who have decided to keep up with masks in public.

 

[itztime]

I'm a bit mixed on the air travel mask stuff. Not sure I'd call it theater in certain circumstances.

Cases are low, but air travel is the fastest way to spread to different parts of the country. And, while I've personally said how well the air is filtered on the plane, that's only true when it's flying. When you're boarding, waiting to take off, taxing, it's not filtered much at all. I may be wrong about that, but I'm under the impression it's only really working when you're pressurized and in the air.

Also, while a very loud minority really complain about masks while flying, most of us, who are only mildly annoyed with them just deal with it and some are very happy to keep it going. I still see elderly people who have decided to keep up with masks in public.

As a frequent flyer I’m tired of it. If we can pack stadiums with screaming fans and no mask, standing in line is no more of a risk.

 

[Saint_Ward]

As a frequent flyer I’m tired of it. If we can pack stadiums with screaming fans and no mask, standing in line is no more of a risk.

Do the math on the number of people and the volume of shared air of a Stadium and a full airplane.

 

[jayd265]

As a frequent flyer I’m tired of it. If we can pack stadiums with screaming fans and no mask, standing in line is no more of a risk.

i'm just hoping its gone before our late honeymoon in october, we have 6 months. luckily i havent had to fly (yet) since their mandate.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I'm a bit mixed on the air travel mask stuff. Not sure I'd call it theater in certain circumstances.

Cases are low, but air travel is the fastest way to spread to different parts of the country. And, while I've personally said how well the air is filtered on the plane, that's only true when it's flying. When you're boarding, waiting to take off, taxing, it's not filtered much at all. I may be wrong about that, but I'm under the impression it's only really working when you're pressurized and in the air.

Also, while a very loud minority really complain about masks while flying, most of us, who are only mildly annoyed with them just deal with it and some are very happy to keep it going. I still see elderly people who have decided to keep up with masks in public.

In a post-Omicron world, anything less than a K95 mask is theatre IMO. A plane (or subway car or restaurant) full of people in cloth or plain surgical masks is basically at the same risk as a plane full of people without masks. In the real world, the masks that 99.9% of the public wears are pretty much worthless.

It's like rubbing a rabbits foot but it provides the illusion of safety, so here we are.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

In a post-Omicron world, anything less than a K95 mask is theatre IMO. A plane (or subway car or restaurant) full of people in cloth or plain surgical masks is basically at the same risk as a plane full of people without masks. In the real world, the masks that 99.9% of the public wears are pretty much worthless.

You forgot that people sitting in a restaurant are immune.