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You need to relax. There is no legitimate reason to force people to undergo any medical procedure.
Don’t post that anymore.
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Cant you print the qr code and have it on paper. Your batter going flat wont matter. You can have multiple copies one in any jacket/car/bag you have. Also, where in Europe are cops stopping you for vaccination on the street?
I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. I’ve seen opinion piece after opinion piece go on and on about how we need to have kids in school. The pieces attack school officials or teachers but complete ignore the logistics of having so many sick teachers. There aren’t enough subs to cover for the teachers. We know this surge will die down in 4-6 weeks. It’s a perfect time to pivot to r…
As I understand it, students can minimise their online class and play computer games or browse the web instead.
And young children aren't exactly known for their self-control, even if some of us had good self-control at that age.
A teacher who finds 5% of students don't respond when called upon might be able to focus on them; but if 95% of students don't respond, their powers are very limited.
IMHO, reopening schools is more important for the nation than reopening restaurants, office buildings, universities, hairdressers or gyms.
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Cant you print the qr code and have it on paper. Your batter going flat wont matter. You can have multiple copies one in any jacket/car/bag you have. Also, where in Europe are cops stopping you for vaccination on the street?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/austria-covid-lockdown-polic...
It also has a higher cumulative death rate than Sweden, so all of this is virus-theater and authoritarianism.
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.
You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal. Omicron is not mild, people with vaccines have mild symptoms due to its efficacy. All these kids come home to families with parents and grandparents. They also have young siblings.
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…
Not that big of a deal. Most people don't even have careers really, having children is already a career disadvantage, careers are mostly zero-sum competition so it balances out, etc.
I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. I’ve seen opinion piece after opinion piece go on and on about how we need to have kids in school. The pieces attack school officials or teachers but complete ignore the logistics of having so many sick teachers. There aren’t enough subs to cover for the teachers. We know this surge will die down in 4-6 weeks. It’s a perfect time to pivot to r…
There's a false belief out there in this debate that if we don't have an enforced lockdown, we won't get a defacto one.
I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. I’ve seen opinion piece after opinion piece go on and on about how we need to have kids in school. The pieces attack school officials or teachers but complete ignore the logistics of having so many sick teachers. There aren’t enough subs to cover for the teachers. We know this surge will die down in 4-6 weeks. It’s a perfect time to pivot to r…
In short, everyone needs kids in schools... (Not saying this is a good thing, just thinking it through as the situation is right now, assuming no changes) Parents who are rejoining the workforce can't take 4-6 weeks of with no notice to babysit their kids again... But they also can't afford to stop working. Businesses can't afford to lose workers, it continues the strain on the system which raises wages and threatens…
When we'll look back on the panic in 5-10 years, everyone will be mystified. Previous pandemics like the Russian Flu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic ) have stopped naturally without vaccines or major government intervention. How has humanity survived without $BigGov? In Austria (highly locked down, fascist vaccine policy) the cumulative death rate now surpasses Sweden's. This means that you…
They were no vaccines tho. Those started to be used only after they were invented.