what about hospitalized kids? What about dead ones? What about sick teachers? All 3 will happen if schools are opened with no precautions.
Clemson and virus spread...wow!
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what about hospitalized kids? What about dead ones? What about sick teachers? All 3 will happen if schools are opened with no precautions.
Jason Day felt crappy when he got up today and was concerned so he showed up to the course and took two different tests that both read negative.
For extra precaution they had him play as a single.
All 3 will happen with precautions also. Just like all 3 happen from localized meningitis outbreaks every year.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153448/
I keep forgetting we have those magic masks here in the U.S. though. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5153448/
Day has had health issues his whole career. Vertigo and the like. Too bad, because he’s a heck of a golfer when he’s “right”. Just doesn’t happen very often anymore.
Masks help, they really really do. We just have to get over our "IT'S MY LIFE!" attitude toward masks, and start strictly enforcing people wearing them. If a student doesn't wear a mask, he or she goes home, period.
I agree that masks should be required in school. Also, teachers should be allowed to try to social distance as much as possible. But that does not answer the question about sports, band, chorus, show choir, and other activities where masks are not an option. This is a risk tolerance issue for each parent/kid to decide. I want my kids in school. My neighbor does not want his kids in school. Neither answer is right or wrong and neither family should get to decide for the other. Schools should offer both options.
The tour’s protocol is basically to ignore it. They have 1,100 “essential” people for tournaments with 144 players that moves all across the country. Plus they’re only testing 400 of those 1,100 people. Nevermind the 8,000 fans approved for the Memorial. Their bubble isn’t a bubble at all
It looks like one of the PGA players to test positive was a false negative. Champ has tested negative three times since testing positive. This could make players sit games that shouldn't be sitting.
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/af...amp-announces-hes-tested-negative-three-times
https://www.golfchannel.com/news/af...amp-announces-hes-tested-negative-three-times
Precautions, no. Masks, yes, especially for PreK - 5th or so. Put that time, money, and effort towards pre-entry screenings, end of day screenings, social distancing, enforced hand hygiene, things that would actually have some efficacy. And be up front and honest with the parents, and offer online learning for those who are uncomfortable and/or have immunocompromised kids or residents living with them. Just be honest and tell everybody there will be outbreaks, and that you’ll do everything possible to minimize their extent. Requiring masks in school settings for the early grades is a joke. It’s designed to make everybody feel better.
I feel like the anti mask people don’t understand what they are for.
When we breath, a fine mist of saliva is being expelled from our mouth. Same is happening when we talk, but talking also adds larger droplets to be expelled at the same time. The large droplets fall to the ground Rapidly due to their weight, while the fine mist can stay suspended in the air for hours depending on airflow. The mask is there to catch the fine mist being expelled by the wearer so that it doesn’t end up floating around in the air for long periods of time.
So, my mask is to protect you from the saliva I am breathing out. My mask will protect me a bit from others, but mostly it is to protect others from me. If enough people do this, we are able to lower the transmission significantly. Visually, it would be the difference between the dust cloud that is visible from a stampede in a dry dusty desert, verses what you would see during the same stampede in a heavy rain storm. That is the difference between a bunch of people breathing in a group with or without masks.
This is why it’s important for everyone to wear masks in public. And wearing one/not wearing one is more about protecting everyone else. It’s like if wearing a seatbelt saved the guy sitting to your left. You’re sitting between two people who both belt up, but you’ve decided to take your chances because it’s uncomfortable. Hope there isn’t an accident for the guy on your lefts sake.
Tolstoy
When we breath, a fine mist of saliva is being expelled from our mouth. Same is happening when we talk, but talking also adds larger droplets to be expelled at the same time. The large droplets fall to the ground Rapidly due to their weight, while the fine mist can stay suspended in the air for hours depending on airflow. The mask is there to catch the fine mist being expelled by the wearer so that it doesn’t end up floating around in the air for long periods of time.
So, my mask is to protect you from the saliva I am breathing out. My mask will protect me a bit from others, but mostly it is to protect others from me. If enough people do this, we are able to lower the transmission significantly. Visually, it would be the difference between the dust cloud that is visible from a stampede in a dry dusty desert, verses what you would see during the same stampede in a heavy rain storm. That is the difference between a bunch of people breathing in a group with or without masks.
This is why it’s important for everyone to wear masks in public. And wearing one/not wearing one is more about protecting everyone else. It’s like if wearing a seatbelt saved the guy sitting to your left. You’re sitting between two people who both belt up, but you’ve decided to take your chances because it’s uncomfortable. Hope there isn’t an accident for the guy on your lefts sake.
Tolstoy
I can agree that elementary is going to be difficult to mandate or enforce or keep up with. You're also going to have kids refuse to wear them...that will also happen in the older grades.
Resources and funding for online arrangements for high-risk kids will be difficult imo. So will figuring out what to do with high-risk staff.
