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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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Thump said:
My building would have kids in some non-air conditioned, 2nd floor rooms all day with face masks required.

These rooms routinely get into the high 90’s in the afternoons.
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It is a hell of a conundrum. My wife is a Montessori pre-k teacher and is currently teaching a 10 kid summer class (and not happy about it). Everyone gets checked at the door and temperature taken throughout the day. Still, getting 3-6 year olds to distance is the definition of cat herding. And she spends most of her day sanitizing. The school has already furloughed 20-25 staff members and will have to increase class size (while still not bringing back all the staff) in fall just to survive. After 25 years as a teacher she's considering other options. I feel completely lost in even trying to advise her what to do. Anyways, shout out to teachers--none make anywhere near what your worth.
 
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Jake said:
While we're over here arguing about masks the EU is stopping the spread. Maybe we should look at what they are doing?

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They seemed to have a much more strict shut down (depending on the country) and also were more willing to pay workers to not work and just stay home so that people wouldn't have to worry about being laid off or furloughed. Haven't got a chance to read the whole thing, but one example was Denmark paying workers 75% of salaries so the companies wouldn't lay them off.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-04-03/how-us-coronavirus-stimulus-package-compares-those-europe

IMO, this was the only way to maintain a long enough shut down to lower the cases enough until the fall/winter when there would be another spike. Also, you'd have constructed a large, temporary national tracing org to make it easier to control clusters. That never came about here.
 
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Thump said:
No clue how schools can put kids in buildings and on buses in good conscience at this point.
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The fear is that the students will be long gone, and districts are paid by enrollment. Far superior online options to the e-learning crap the public schools were providing post pandemic. In the big cities, it’s going to get really bad.
 
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