Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

It amazes me that anyone is gullible enough to believe the stupidity of this administration. Incredibly, they believe the obvious lies.

White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic as US hits record cases

 

Up over 40% from a month ago. It’s getting worse.

 

Incase people don’t want to read. The press release itself...

 

What is worse, the hubris of the admin or the gullibility of people that believe it?

 

opioid deaths up significantly in Florida. Funds being set aside to help.
DeSantis: Opioid overdoses up 62% in Florida; $5 million pledged to fight addiction

 

This is a huge reason why kids need to be in person for schooling. The difference of 63% of kids failing doing remote learning versus 7% for in person learning is much scarier than most could imagine. The damage to these kids futures(adversely minority and the poor) will be so large that some kids just won't ever catch up. So sad.

 

I'm disappointed that Florida didn't leverage the Florida Virtual School better. If our governor had been trying to do what was best for our students he would have had all the teachers do a couple weeks of training over the summer on how to use the FLVS system and then run all the classes online.

The hybrid method most schools are trying is the worst possible way to do this.

Other states don't have access to FLVS, we were best prepared for a shift to online education and we chose not to do it the better way.

 

the latter

 

That most likely would've helped but obviously most kids aren't doing well with online learning. I mean I know this is only one school district, but if other school districts are similar, we are setting kids back so far that they won't ever catch up.

 

My 16 year old thinks this virtual learning sucks! But his principal and the charter leadership dont give a squirt about the kids.
Listening to their staff meetings its very apparent they dont want any part of face to face until there is a vaccine. This despite classes (when they were in person on a hybrid model) having less than a dozen kids, masked up, behind plexiglass and the teacher the same.
Oddly enough, none of the other principals at our elementary and middle schools are acting this way and well over half their enrollment is face to face.

 

looks like 2018 held steady or slight decrease from 2017 but the increases prior to 2018 were substantial. can't find statistics for 2019 but guess they resumed the upward trend that started in 2019.

hopefully the crackdown on the pill mills will continue and doctors will be more aware of the impact of prescribing such addictive pain pills.

Florida: Opioid-Involved Deaths and Related Harms | National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nearly 68% of the 4,698 reported drug overdose deaths in Florida involved opioids in 2018—a total of 3,189 fatalities (and a rate of 15.8) (Figure 1).

• Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (mainly fentanyl and fentanyl analogs) remained stable but high with 2,091 in 2018 (a rate of 10.7).
• Deaths involving heroin and prescription opioids also remained steady with a respective 689 (a rate of 3.5) and 1,282 (a rate of 6.0) reported in 2018.3

Opioid Prescriptions
In 2018, Florida providers wrote 53.7 opioid prescriptions for every 100 persons, compared to the average U.S. rate of 51.4 prescriptions. This is the lowest rate since 2006 when this data became available.4

 

My 16 year old is doing great with virtual but he was doing great before so that was somewhat expected.
We are fortunate to have intelligent, well adjusted kids and a great school system.

 

if you’re suggesting my son isn’t intelligent or well adjusted youre wrong.
nice slight though.

 

My DIL told me this past weekend that she is packed to the gills in her classroom because they have let go some of the teachers they hired to thin out the classrooms. No money.

 

So lockdown/Covid isn't the issue, apparently Trump getting elected was the problem.

 

No, but I am saying the it is easier for kids that don't struggle to begin with and are in a great school system.

 

Thought he was going to shut down the border so there would be no more drugs??

 

One size doesn't fit all. Some would do better in a self paced environment and others need the structure. We are in a situation where some kids are going to be really hurt by whatever decision their school board makes, and some that will benefit. The schools need money that they are being denied to allow for more teachers, more PPE, and other issues unique to their situation.