Originally Posted by
BCR
I can see an argument for opening schools just as far as kids overall well-being is concerned, but any that open are going to be open a few weeks or a month and closed again. It will be constant teachers getting sick and then schools closed and everyone quarantined. Pediatricians can say it’s fine, and their purview is the kids, and I’m sure it is fine and ok compared to missing a year and everything else, but that ignores the big picture of how shit actually works.
Here, it’s been all the positives this week for the fall sports that are already practicing, and quarantines, and cleaning shit, and it doesn’t even make any sense. That’s after a week. We aren’t even a hot spot right now, it’s just everywhere, and it isn’t going to stop.
Idk why they’re even bothering? You either decide you’re going to ignore the positives and move forward or just cancel it. There isn’t any workaround or middle ground.
They’re never making it to the first week as far as sports.
You put 50 high school kids in a locker room, it’s over if you’re going to quarantine when you get positives. There isn’t any real physical difference between a team of 17 and 18 year olds and a team of 20 year olds like Clemson with 50+ positives as far as susceptibility. Even if young kids get it less, every kid over 14 is basically a young adult. And a large number of the schools share a campus where you have elementary to high school in different buildings but sharing certain facilities.
It’s basically mlb after a week at every school. There is billions involved and the pros can’t stop it. Short of a boarding school NBA bubble you send your kids to, it’s all a waste of time. It won’t be a month and they’ll be back home.
They’ll get it and spread it far slower than sports and high school kids, but a kid is getting it every few weeks and they’re going to quarantine everyone for weeks. Teachers will be sick. Its a bad spot because kids lose out,but there isn’t any fix except ignoring it and pushing through it, and that’s never happening. Grandparents and principals and older teachers will start to drop and class projects will be writing get well cards to any teacher over 40 in the ICU this week and it will be back to online until a vaccine.