COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (4 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

LL Cool Trump

Lavish Larceny

 

[bonnjer]

Yup.

I was just talking with a couple of colleagues yesterday about this.

We just started our summer vacation this week (we go until the end of June here) and speculating what next Fall is going to look like.

The Province has said that we might want to consider opening a week earlier, because we *will* be shut down. And soon, I think.

The school is telling us to prepare for a hybrid model of teaching, mix of online and distance learning. I think many people are operating under the assumption there will be a lot of the latter.

I think it's going to be like 80% former. And that's in a province that has had fewer than 200 cases per day for most of the last two weeks.

In states where this is about to really hit... prepare now for a lot more distance learning.

School districts, as I've written before, as absolutely *STUPID* if they are not planning with local telecoms to blanket wifi coverage.This is especially an issue in school districts with high rural populations (something I've been advocating for more infrastructure in the past, way before this). They need to get teachers ready for online teaching. They need to talk about stripping down the curriculum to essentials and competencies. They need to take standardized testing out of their stupid mouths (better if it stayed out). They need to be planning to hand out technology for kids.They need to develop an attack plan for getting food to kids on free- and reduced-lunch plans (those are still budgeted). And so on.

Any district where this *is not* happening, if I was a parent and taxpayer I would be raising ten different kinds of hell.

But I know - for a FACT - that a lot of schools and districts have done little to nothing. And when the public rises up in outrage, justifiably, they are gonna have very little to respond with.

And the petty side of me wants to say, "And you deserve it! Every bit of it!" Except we're talking about kids, people. And their education. And it's so important for so many of them.

 

[bonnjer]

The general impression I've gotten from people I've talked to about what a lot of districts are doing seems to be a combination of denial and lack of planning. Lots of "We WILL be back in the classroom in the fall!" stories in local papers just regurgitating the state guidelines for reopening, which are a joke. I know early in this there seemed to be a push for 1:1 technology for home use and working with internet providers to increase internet availability, but I haven't heard a whole lot about that lately. And I find it pretty telling that I'm seeing districts all around the sake put up surveys for parents that basically amount to "Well, what do you think we should do?" Most district calendars begin in a month and they're still soliciting public opinion about the path forward. My takeaway is there has been a total lack of planning, everyone assumed we'd be able to go back with guidelines in place, and we're setting ourselves up for disaster again because it's becoming very evident that isn't an option.

Yep, yep, yep. This. Exactly all of this.

 

[buzd]

NB: soccer team

 

[RazorOye]

Have we given up? National surrender on July 4th?

 

[gboudx]

Have we given up? National surrender on July 4th?

“My fellow Americans. We will all have to learn to live with the China flu. Many, many of you will get sick, but it may only be the sniffles. But a few of you will die from the Kung flu. Let us say now that we appreciate your sacrifice to save our economy, and we will wish your families our thoughts and prayers after you die. Good luck. “

 

[St. Widge]

If you read the article, they're just saying live with it. There's nothing there about a comprehensive mitigation message (maybe that's coming). And I don't know how they think a certain someone can stay on message, especially when it contradicts pretty much everything he has been saying.

Apparently the Mayor of Baton Rouge claims that the reason that she finally decided to mandate masks is because "the White House" called and suggested that they do it. It would not surprise me at all if a certain someone was doing what he has been doing since the beginning, speaking tough and spreading conspiracy theories publicly, but telling states and mayors they better do something behind the scenes. Of course, the major issue is that the states and mayors are getting zero support, help, guidance from the CDC (because someone won't allow them to do anything) and for some reason we apparently haven't been mas producing COVID tests, PPE, and ventilators.

 

[nolaspe]

Sending tots and pears...

 

[bclemms]

Apparently the Mayor of Baton Rouge claims that the reason that she finally decided to mandate masks is because "the White House" called and suggested that they do it. It would not surprise me at all if a certain someone was doing what he has been doing since the beginning, speaking tough and spreading conspiracy theories publicly, but telling states and mayors they better do something behind the scenes. Of course, the major issue is that the states and mayors are getting zero support, help, guidance from the CDC (because someone won't allow them to do anything) and for some reason we apparently haven't been mas producing COVID tests, PPE, and ventilators.

What makes you think that? Is it the fact we are still 90% shy of needed testing the WHO said is needed to suppress the virus or only half way to the numbers needed to BEGIN mitigation efforts? Or is it because we still can't get proper N95 masks?

USA is leading the world in a lot of categories.
1) Cases
2) Deaths
3) Hospitalizations
4) Money Spent
5) Economic Impact

 

[bclemms]

Sending tots and pears...

I'm not even going to pretend anymore. I'm rooting for death. As far as I'm concerned anyone in power putting this message out is a mass murderer and needs to be stopped.

 

[mb504]

Our government spends $2 trillion, the equivalent of two disastrous Iraq wars over only three months just to throw its hands up and say "welp, what're you gonna do?" JFC. Burn it all down.

 

[bclemms]

Our government spends $2 trillion, the equivalent of two disastrous Iraq wars over only three months just to throw its hands up and say "welp, what're you gonna do?" JFC. Burn it all down.

Nope, we've spent far more than that. We are in the $8 Trillion range if you include Cares Act, PPE, Government spending. More than that if you include Fed purchases.

 

[Sun Wukong]

Someone called me hyperbolic way back in the thread when I said America was closer to a failed state than an exceptional superpower. There was zero hyperbole in that statement. This is what a dying former superpower looks like.

 

[jrdbrn]

Someone called me hyperbolic way back in the thread when I said America was closer to a failed state than an exceptional superpower. There was zero hyperbole in that statement. This is what a dying former superpower looks like.

And that's what people want apparently. Look around.

 

[superchuck500]