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gimmick
No. Just no. Feel free to provide almost any data to support that.
More articles you don't bother to read so you can keep your precious retarded opinions...
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-pers...-exponentially
...it appears no one that actually spends any time at looking at the numbers shares your opinion.
"At least
45 small school districts across the state have been forced to temporarily stop offering in-person classes because of COVID-19 cases during the first few weeks of school, the Texas Tribune reports. The closures affect at least 40,000 students.
"From
Aug. 23-29, there were 27,353 new positive COVID-19 cases among students in Texas public schools, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, making it the
biggest one-week increase in the entire pandemic," the Texas Tribune wrote."
That's just Texas. Surely it's just a coincidence.
You should move to the US and work for the Democratic Party or the media. They need some good statistcal manipulators.
Let's see... August 23-29 in Texas. Why did you pick that? Oh wait... didn't Texas have a reallllllllly bad problem with community transmission of COVID in August? What a coincidence. No chance those kids got it from the many many parents who had COVID during that really bad week, right? Had to be in the schools because.... um.... gimmick from Finland said so?
Again, the presence of kids with COVID in the schools does not mean the kids caught COVID in the schools. Kids have exposure to parents. Kids have exposure to other adults outside of school. If community transmission is high, a lot of kids will have COVID, just like a lot of adults will have COVID.
That doesn't mean they're transmitting it.
You can separate community transmission cases from school cases by monitoring the classrooms, and studying the pattern of infection. If a class with one verified COVID infection leads to a lot of additional COVID infections shortly thereafter, while classes with zero verified COVID infections stay uninfected at the same time, then that would appear to be an in-school transmission. If COVID seems to be relatively evenly spread throughout the classes -- or if there are just one-off cases here and there, with zero other students in the class getting sick (which has been the case in Ben's school this year), then it's highly unlikely to be transmitting in the classroom.
Or, for the people who aren't interested in this statistical discussion, they can simply look and notice that colds will spread quickly in a classroom to other kids, whereas COVID cases don't seem to be doing it -- anywhere.
Now, there are still complicating factors, such as the teacher bringing COVID into the classroom and infecting the kids. That could be mistaken as kid-to-kid transmission. Fortunately, we have a giant pool of 75 million kids to study, and so far we are seeing no evidence of a problem COVID transmission in the schools. Not only aren't we seeing such evidence, but the complete lack of such evidence (and the fact that the left is chomping at the bit to jump on such a thing) is itself very strong evidence that it's NOT happening.
Nice try, though.