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

[bigdaddysaints]

CDC purchased (is still purchasing?) cell-phone location data to track compliance with COVID-19 restrictions, often from less-than-secure vendors.

CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders

Newly released documents showed the CDC planned to use phone location data to monitor schools and churches, and wanted to use the data for many non-COVID-19 purposes, too.

www.vice.com

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you

i guess it depends on what you consider "out to get you"..

 

[Saint_Ward]

I flew from Houston to PDX this weekend and was one of 3 masked people on my flight so I think now that the habits are being broken we’re not going to see much volunteer masking. I really hope that we’re really getting towards the end of this thing and we don’t see another resurgence of cases anytime soon.

At work, if someone isn't feeling well, even if maybe allergies, I'm seeing them mask up. Or if anyone is seemingly sick, the group masks up a bit. So, I'm seeing people re-maskup if there is a real reason to.

 

[Saint_Ward]

BTW, for 2021 Covid 19 was the third leading cause of death in the USA.

Coronavirus Disease 2019

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

www.cdc.gov

 

[LonghornSaint]

After a consult with the healthcare PA, I qualify for the Pfizer antiviral Paxlovid, so that's good. Really good data on it preventing hospitalization and death. I really don't care so much about the temporary negative side effects, which will probably be a little worse than what I'm experiencing now. We'll see how it goes...

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

More evidence that closing schools was a mistake that has had regressive effects.

‘Not Good for Learning’ (Published 2022)

New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.

www.nytimes.com

 

[brandon8283]

More evidence that closing schools was a mistake that has had regressive effects.

‘Not Good for Learning’ (Published 2022)

New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.

www.nytimes.com

Hindsight is 20/20.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

More evidence that closing schools was a mistake that has had regressive effects.

‘Not Good for Learning’ (Published 2022)

New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.

www.nytimes.com

A mistake? It wasn't an either/or situation. Containing the spread and preventing deaths was the objective. Yes, there's collateral damage in many aspects because it was a global pandemic.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

I guess death is better than a some setbacks..

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Hindsight is 20/20.

And we should employ that hindsight to learn from our mistakes. For the next time this happens.

A mistake? It wasn't an either/or situation. Containing the spread and preventing deaths was the objective. Yes, there's collateral damage in many aspects because it was a global pandemic.

There were plenty of either/or situations - many places prioritized a return to in-person learning, other places did not. The evidence is starting to come back about the relative effects of those choices. The article plots out some pretty compelling evidence that closing schools was a mistake and in many places kids were made to suffer without much increase in COVID safety. We should learn from that.

Low-income students, as well as Black and Latino students, fell further behind over the past two years, relative to students who are high-income, white or Asian. “This will probably be the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation,” Thomas Kane, an author of the Harvard study, told me.
There are two main reasons. First, schools with large numbers of poor students were more likely to go remote.

Why? Many of these schools are in major cities, which tend to be run by Democratic officials, and Republicans were generally quicker to reopen schools. High-poverty schools are also more likely to have unionized teachers, and some unions lobbied for remote schooling.

Second, low-income students tended to fare even worse when schools went remote. They may not have had reliable internet access, a quiet room in which to work or a parent who could take time off from work to help solve problems.

 

[jayd265]

i'm so glad my kids are back full time without masks. much better school year now.

 

[DaveXA]

Interestingly enough, Covid hasn't gone away. Both of my parents and my MIL all were tested positive this week, and they live in 2 different states over 1k miles away. Hopefully the vax/boosters keep the severity to a minimum.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Interestingly enough, Covid hasn't gone away. Both of my parents and my MIL all were tested positive this week, and they live in 2 different states over 1k miles away. Hopefully the vax/boosters keep the severity to a minimum.

We're on an upward trend nationally. New Omicron subvariants are spreading. And a lot of it is going underreported due to more at home testing.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

We're on an upward trend nationally. New Omicron submarines are spreading. And a lot of it is going underreported due to more at home testing.

Or not even testing at all because often many healthy people cannot distinguish between a cold, allergies or covid.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Or not even testing at all because often many healthy people cannot distinguish between a cold, allergies or covid.

That too.

 

[DaveXA]

Or not even testing at all because often many healthy people cannot distinguish between a cold, allergies or covid.

Yeah, only reason they tested positive is cuz they went in thinking they had something else