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Honest question: At what point do we give up? I'm in the Bay Area and it'll be coming up on 2 years soon of what basically amounts to a social shut down. -- Many social groups are just not getting together anymore, including most of mine. -- Concerts, sporting events, parties of most sizes, crowded bars/clubs just seem off the table at this point. -- Masks for the majority of it, which makes gym going and working out…
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I did not pivot. And to anyone reading my post, it should be so obvious that I did not pivot that your claim that I did verges on flatly dishonest. We knew COVID was not dangerous to children by early summer 2020. The article says this and the article is correct. I simply and plainly repeated this. It was never the case that anyone who was paying attention believed school closures might be the only thing standing bet…
> It was never the case that anyone who was paying attention believed school closures might be the only thing standing between COVID and mass death of children. That did not happen. It did not happen. It never happened. This is the aforementioned pivot. Nobody made this claim. The claim is that, early in the pandemic, unknowns about the dangers of COVID to children were one among many sufficient conditions for closin…
So, is Covid the shock that leads to the education system being reinvented for the better or do school boards just keep bumbling along like before? Do zero-tolerance policies really work? Why are students falling behind in mathematics compared to the rest of the world? Does overloading of take home work produce better test scores, or does it just consume free time and stress out kids? Are teachers ever going to be pa…
"So, is Covid the shock that leads to the education system being reinvented for the better" I don't really see how this would happen, or even how they connect. Covid is keeping our schools from even being schools. It's displaying the flaws in our larger system, but it doesn't really speak at all to what's good or bad in the classroom itself. EXCEPT that we've had a natural experiment where kids are removed from the c…
I am very thankful that my youngest graduated high school in 2020. The last couple of months were screwed up, but there wasn't much real education lost by then; most seniors pretty much check out after Spring Break anyway. I really feel for the kids who are younger. The effects of this are going to be with us for decades.
It always surprises that left-leaning politicians and media were the most fervent advocates of school closures, because it has disproportionately affected kids from the poorest backgrounds. What I see around me is that educated couples invested the time to make up for the lack of school education (and were typically home working themselves), so those kids will probably do OK, other kids were left on their own all day…
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How many hospitalizations are due to covid and how many just happen to test positive?
Appears to be very very common (as high as 2/3 'with' covid vs 'for' covid). See: https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1478401273317654528
Having covid presumably worsens outcomes for unrelated causes, in some cases turning a non emergency condition into an emergency condition.
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I did not pivot. And to anyone reading my post, it should be so obvious that I did not pivot that your claim that I did verges on flatly dishonest. We knew COVID was not dangerous to children by early summer 2020. The article says this and the article is correct. I simply and plainly repeated this. It was never the case that anyone who was paying attention believed school closures might be the only thing standing bet…
> It was never the case that anyone who was paying attention believed school closures might be the only thing standing between COVID and mass death of children. That did not happen. It did not happen. It never happened. This is the aforementioned pivot. Nobody made this claim. The claim is that, early in the pandemic, unknowns about the dangers of COVID to children were one among many sufficient conditions for closin…
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There is a dangerous level of cognitive dissonance around school closures that effects nearly everyone. I have to filter arguments by finding out if the people making them have or do not have kids in school. People with kids in school just want schools open. Teachers and administrators want schools open. ...and therefore politicians want schools open. There are a lot of vested interests that bias toward opening schoo…
>Teachers and administrators want schools open. ...and therefore politicians want schools open. This is just false. The largest teacher unions in the country have been pushing school closures. This means many teachers, administrators and politicians also want school closures. Until like the last week politicians have been reluctant to even suggest schools reopen https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-teachers-unions-odds-over-…
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How is that relevant? The parents will all inevitably be exposed eventually. It doesn't matter whether the exposure happens through one of their children or someone else.
It doesn't matter how. It matters when.
Let's not pretend people are avoiding covid for multiple years here, because statistically they aren't.
Honest question: At what point do we give up? I'm in the Bay Area and it'll be coming up on 2 years soon of what basically amounts to a social shut down. -- Many social groups are just not getting together anymore, including most of mine. -- Concerts, sporting events, parties of most sizes, crowded bars/clubs just seem off the table at this point. -- Masks for the majority of it, which makes gym going and working out…
You sound like you're describing a foreign country from my experiences in New York, Arizona, and Nevada. Why not move out of the Bay Area?
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How is that relevant? The parents will all inevitably be exposed eventually. It doesn't matter whether the exposure happens through one of their children or someone else.
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