Seems to me that the school is unnecessarily scaring kids more than doing anything else. These teens have almost nothing to fear from covid. Most of the rest of the country (outside major cities) almost ignores covid exists. Good article on the subject: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/where-i-li...
I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control
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#312> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him. There was now a lack of available seats given there was a COVID-positive student within the middle of the auditorium. This is really awful behavior.
Why?? This is normal and natural.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m wondering what has changed in the human nature (if any) that we need day care for ppl older than 18-19 years now. What did such ppl do 100 (or 1000) years ago to overcome all that.
I'm not following. The vast majority of people in school are younger than 18. I agree with you that it should be fine for most parents to leave an older kid (say 14+?) at home alone. But again, some kids just want to go to school to get some damn food, regardless of age!
I’m mostly curious about why the maturity period was prolonged by 5-10 years from what the human race had 100 or 1000 years ago. I’m not talking about education but the transition from youths to adulthood.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. Because "remote learning" is a joke. I volunteered a bit in a virtual high school classroom. The teacher running it is making a frankly heroic effort to keep her students in the school system at all. But no one was engaged, cameras were off, students regularly don't show up at all or drop off in the middle of class. These are comparatively a…
Did you read the OP? What they are doing in school right now is also a joke!
I did. Here's the line that stuck out to me:
> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him.
I suggest fixing the ludicrously miscalibrated risk assessment of omicron as a better route. How many of these legions of absent teachers even have symptoms?
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#315Freddie de Boer just wrote something on his Substack about this - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/many-kids-dont-have-a-w... The quick takeaway is that school is that for the most vulnerable kids, school is about a lot more than education. Taking school away from those kids can be much more damaging than many people realize. It seems to me like that right strategy would be to just say something like: We encourag…
I’m wondering what has changed in the human nature (if any) that we need day care for ppl older than 18-19 years now. What did such ppl do 100 (or 1000) years ago to overcome all that.
We don't. Schools are mostly people under 18.
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#316Interestingly, the prevailing belief seems to be that parents, teachers, and students, all want to keep in-person school going. Yet when you actually hear from each of those groups, it's a mixed picture. Here's a HS student with boots on the ground describing the situation in what seems to be a fairly objective way. Elsewhere, teachers unions are voting to suspend school. This seems to be what a lot of people want ,…
Interestingly, the 'boots on the ground' that you've lent credence to is in agreement with what you assume is the teacher's union 'non-objective' stance.
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#317I think the main question is how much are we willing to sacrifice of our lifestyle? People die every day of various reasons alcohol, drugs, strokes, car accidents etc. COVID is imminent danger to the people with underlying conditions and they should practice maximum precautions(distance, masks etc. plus Vitamin D intake). Other people should carry on living. COVID is coming to endemic soon.
This mindset- let the weak fend for themselves while the strong go on- is literally the justification for eugenics.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
The evidence that child activity affects the spread of covid among adults is thin. > Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus’s spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-childre...
The evidence is always nice and comfortable as long as YOU aren't the one being affected by it. I contracted COVID from my kid, who got it from another kid in her class who went to school for 3 days after a positive test because that kid wasn't showing symptoms and their parents had nobody to watch them.
Fauci is dying to hear your anecdotal revelation.
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#319I do understand it depends on the kind of person you are… but I can’t really relate to those who suffer from luck of social interactions! Lockdown for me was a bliss! And I still fondly remember when I was 12 and got a very severe pneumonia that forced me to stay at home for almost 2 months! It was amazing… and when I got back my marks immediately among the highest of my class (and we are talking about the 90s… I was calling classmates to get book pages to read)
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#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
The flu had the same property at different rates. What are the numbers you are expecting for people to start treating it like the flu?
New York State Flu Tracker ( https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/web/nyapd/new-york-state-flu-tra... ): 5075 new cases this week (2227 in New York City).
So we're down to 10x the flu, the previous poster's question still stands though.