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Originally Posted by oskar
Big if.
A couple of my friends are teachers. They say some of their colleagues can't work a Teams session, and a shocking number of households have no proper computer with steady internet access.
Also schools don't seem to contribute much to covid spread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...747_story.html
The former is easy to fix. The latter is straightforward for 11-18 in the UK, as secondary schools are opening the facility for these kids, along with the vulnerable and children of key workers. 5-11yo isn't quite so easy but primary schools tend to be much closer to home and have been offering weekly packets of work and activities for collection.
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
I was seriously questioning your data, given what I've heard, but then I read this part:
St Charles County is where I grew up, where my dad still lives, and effectively right next door to where I currently live, about 30 miles away.
St Louis area has been declared a COVID hot spot multiple times. PPE is at about 45% usage by the general people outdoors, IMO, at a rough estimate of what I'm seeing around town. Businesses may or may not have any mask requirements for customers, and even when employees are wearing masks, it's hit or miss whether they're even covering their nose.
So I'm not surprised that it's falling into the category of "when infection rates are high."
That's the problem strictly analysing the impact of school opening. If the local citizens aren't following guidance, that's only going to be made worse by schools returning.
Originally Posted by oskar
ldo there has to be a mask mandate mask mandate when you open schools.
You would think so, but not in the UK. 30 kids packed into each small classroom without masks.
Originally Posted by Poopadoop
The biggest running joke in the UK is the tier system. They have four tiers of increasinly greater restrictions now, none of them seem to slow the spread (certainly not t1-3, too soon to say about t4 yet), and they implement the higher tiers in areas that don't vote for them. It's so transparently bad it's not even funny.
Ido. I live in a T4 that's as blue as they come. But I see the wealthy middle classes walking together in the local parks in big groups, drinking prosecco from plastic glasses, etc. One problem with having confusing guidance with constant u-turns is that people just say "fuck it, I'll just do what I think is sensible". That and a lot of people are thick, or take the view the government can't tell them what to do, so they'll do the exact opposite.
What staggers me is that there seems to be no thought to the consequences of decisions, no advice taken from experts and no consultation with groups like teachers.
Mrs Bean is a secondary school teacher and we watched the most recent Williamson announcement together. Nobody knew afterwards what it actually meant for them, so it was clear no teachers had proofread the speech.
Likewise the T4, Christmas is cancelled announcement. Nobody in government seemed to think that would mean a mad dash on to the shops and public transport (which was packed out, made worse by running a reduced service(.
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