Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I read the country was 81% Caucasian but that they are having a large increase of Asian immigration. Seems to be changing. Good for Canada.

To be fair, I’ve only seen the slopes, so you would know much more than me.

 

You forgot the paragraph where they admit they broke school policy of phone use in hallways and posting to social media. Probably not pertinent to the headline.

 

And the part where the Principal threatened the student body with disciplinary action if they criticized the school on social media...

The students are also claiming that the suspensions are not in keeping with the standard disciplinary policies.

 

I only had four paragraphs to work with. I also left out that the administration skipped some discipline steps and jumped straight to suspension.

 

Eh, can’t blame them there. If you had to guess, would you think there was a stern warning prior to school starting?

 

Hmmmm. Wearing a mask in school is apparently a personal choice with no practical way to enforce. My three and a half year old neighbor has been wearing a mask for over a year, doesn't seem to be too difficult.

Two Georgia high school students say they were suspended after photos of crowded hallways went viral

“One area where we have received a good deal of feedback is mask use in our schools. Wearing a mask is a personal choice and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them. What we will do is continue to strongly encourage all students and staff to wear masks,” he added.

 

Crossed 5 million confirmed cases.

USA!

 

Compliance seems simple.
1 warning
2 detention
3 suspension
4 expulsion

 

So apparently the State Department pulled off the Level 4 travel advisory out of the US. Like any developed country is going to let American tourists in their country...

US State Department lifts global 'Do Not Travel' advisory - CNNPolitics

 

Either they are lying about how good it is, or we are lying about how bad it is here. No chance that an entire province is escaping this with zero blemishes for weeks. My guess, as I have said previously, is that some of both are at play in the world. All sides see gain from manipulation, bot pro and con.

The truth is very hard to know at this point.

 

‘It’s Kitchen Sink Time’: Fast, Less-Accurate Coronavirus Tests May Be Good Enough

This is about the infectious, not the infected. No one need care who has it or had it. Only if they can spread it. Everything else is just numbers.

Cheap, crappy, fast tests are the answer. 30 billion for a 90-day supply for every American. You wake up, spit on the test, wait 15 minutes. If you're positive, you stay home. if you'e not, you go on with your life. Wake up tomorrow, do the same thing. We make it cheap (or free) easily accessible, and if only half the country does it this thing is done by Christmas.

Tell your congressmen and senators.

 

the maritimes closed their border to the rest of Canada and the US, and had a mandatory lock down when this started. They have a contract tracing app in Canada they lets you know if anyone you know has tested positive, they wear masks and only opened up many shops in the last week or two, with the novel belief that you should actually see a substantive improvement before doing so.
Do all that and it’s not that hard to shut this thing down. But that could never happen here, we are too selfish and uninformed (intentionally in many cases) to do the right thing.

 

wonder what all those people who said they'd flee to Canada after trump was elected are thinking...oh wait, they're probably thinking they should have left 3 years ago when they were being dramatic.

 

Ha! No chance. They know how great life is here in America. Despite their constant complaining.

 

What are they doing with all the people that haven't worked in months? Businesses? And what will they do now that they are opening up with no vaccine?

 

Interesting concept, and it actually makes sense. From the article:
People carrying — and thus probably shedding — gobs of germs will most likely turn up positive using every test on the market, Dr. Mina said. Those harboring less virus in their bodies might get more mixed results. Many of these individuals, however, probably aren’t the cases of most concern...Researchers don’t yet know how much virus a person needs to carry in their body to actually transmit it. But the range in which the accuracy of antigen tests starts to drop off is probably far below that level, Dr. Mina said.

 

I'm trying to be happy for us that the president likes our governor, but it seems unfair to the rest of the states who aren't as important to our president's re-election hopes.

Trump singles out Texas and Florida for help with coronavirus response - CNNPolitics

 

The ones I know that were serious are laughing at us about now and happy to be expats. Only ones happier are my retired navy drinking buddy’s that left for Thailand.

I don’t think some of you get how much people despise this guys.

 

There is a discipline ladder. Suspension is not the first rung. Principal is on very shaky ground here.

 

Guess the courts will decide on that. But question to a teacher... Principals have no power to revise a “discipline ladder”? Especially if maybe students warned in advance?