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I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by kylebyproxy »

IAmEveryone wrote: post #8
errcorrectcode wrote: post #2

Dayam. What a sh*t show. 1. It'd be nice if they held classes outside, when it's not freezing/windy/snowing "bomb cyclones" and where it's not concrete Manhattan. 2. Forcing kids back to school during the middle of a 600k-1M+ infections/day national peak seems absurd. Heck, the FAANG company I'm interviewing for cancelled all in-person interviews for 2021-2022. If the teachers are too worried and/or are getting sick,…

I believe it's hard to appreciate the frustration and costs that closing schools causes, at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision. I can't think of any other measure that gets even close. The effects of restaurant closures can be mitigated by throwing money at the problem. If you have to stay home and take care of children, your career will suffer even if you are compensated for lost incom…

> at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision

Maybe school openings should just focus on that age group instead of being all-or-nothing? They could give extra focus to preschool & kindergarten, reallocate teachers from higher grades to decrease student-teacher ratios and help spread the infection risk thinner.

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errcorrectcode wrote: post #2

Dayam. What a sh*t show. 1. It'd be nice if they held classes outside, when it's not freezing/windy/snowing "bomb cyclones" and where it's not concrete Manhattan. 2. Forcing kids back to school during the middle of a 600k-1M+ infections/day national peak seems absurd. Heck, the FAANG company I'm interviewing for cancelled all in-person interviews for 2021-2022. If the teachers are too worried and/or are getting sick,…

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Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by fourseventy »

How many students that got sick are experiencing symptoms more severe than the common cold? It seems like the chaos is caused by the attempted solutions to covid and not the actual symptoms?

Edit: 7 day rolling average of COVID cases according to https://www1.nyc.gov/ is 32k cases per day with 38 deaths. So there is a 0.1% mortality rate.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by tomp »

This exemplifies the worst part of this pandemic - the mind virus.

A lot of people in the society are LARPing (pretending) that the virus is serious - staying home, testing constantly, "close contact notifications", "running away from a positive student" - yet at the same time, acting as if it's obviously not a dangerous virus - if it were, they'd all be staying away from each other.

Basically new "security theatre" like after 9/11.

Re: I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

djbebs wrote: post #15
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #14

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You need to relax. There is no legitimate reason to force people to undergo any medical procedure.

I am very relaxed. We had mandatory vaccination against smallpox and measles, and it worked well. There weren't even any discussions. The doctor came to school, we formed a queue and each got their jab. Nobody whined or wrote home about it. And hopefully we'll do it again very soon whether anyone whines or not.

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Post by tomp »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #14

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If you're afraid of the virus, get vaccinated yourself. That's literally the most you can do.

If you're still afraid of the virus, you should know that vaccinating people (even forcefully) won't stop transmission. The virus is endemic. The only thing that can change between now and "back to normal" future is, your mind.

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

IAmEveryone wrote: post #8
errcorrectcode wrote: post #2

Dayam. What a sh*t show. 1. It'd be nice if they held classes outside, when it's not freezing/windy/snowing "bomb cyclones" and where it's not concrete Manhattan. 2. Forcing kids back to school during the middle of a 600k-1M+ infections/day national peak seems absurd. Heck, the FAANG company I'm interviewing for cancelled all in-person interviews for 2021-2022. If the teachers are too worried and/or are getting sick,…

I believe it's hard to appreciate the frustration and costs that closing schools causes, at least for children to be too young to be left without supervision. I can't think of any other measure that gets even close. The effects of restaurant closures can be mitigated by throwing money at the problem. If you have to stay home and take care of children, your career will suffer even if you are compensated for lost incom…

Slightly off-topic, but how are children dealing with non-fixed classes? Thinking about 7 year old children (or even adults), getting on time from one to another classroom according to an indvidual schedule would not be an easy task.

Are there provided with extra help, like single-purpose classrooms according to subject? Do teachers announce where the next lessons take place? Are students split into sub-groups sharing the entire schedule, so they can team up and not lose track of it?

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