Hercuhlees! Hercuhlees!

27,

How many children 15 and under have died from C19 so far? Per the WSJ, that number is 30. I was surprised it was that low, but that number suggests to me that schools opening is not a bad idea. At what number -- if there is one -- would you agree that schools should open?

I just love that picture. I saw it in a magazine and cut it out and carried it around in my backpack in 9th grade!

Howard,

I'm not here to debate, I'm here to PREDICT.

Oh, and a lot of morbidly obese teachers are going to die too.

I predict that there will not be a LOT of them.

I don't see how schools will remain open for all of 20-21 school year. I predict back to remote learning by November~.

Which companies stand to benefit most from millions being homeschooled?

I should have never sold my video game stocks. Get back into ATVI/TTWO

I thought the real reason to keep schools closed wasn't because a bunch of kids will did, it's cause a bunch of kids will be asymptomatic carriers. Howard's right, there's not a ton of evidence that children themselves will die of COVID in large numbers.

uhhh 0?

you know adults work at schools too. and kids can pass it to their parents. who can pass it to their coworkers. and to people at the grocery. or protest. or strip club.

Personally, this is far more concerning to my situation. While our numbers around here are great, I am still going to be super-paranoid about what my student is potentially going to bring home...5 ****ing days a week.

whats scarier than the deaths is the brain damage. This country is already dumb enough, giving low grade brain damage to most of the population isn't going to help.

I don't think zero can or should be the right answer. There is very definitely a cost to both children and parents to keeping kids out of school, and those costs trade against the risk. The science seems to say that kids are rarely asymptomatic carriers. The WSJ, at least, concludes the risk of schools opening is small. I was in Vermont not long ago, and the state claims to be able to contact trace. Given that the state is entirely composed of communities we in big cities would regard as small -- Burlington, the biggest town in the state, has fewer than fifty thousand people -- the story checks out. It seems to me that opening schools in Vermont is a no-brainer yes.

So we're on a risk continuum where opening schools in metro Boston is a very different issue from other communities. 27 is right to be at least somewhat paranoid about what his kids bring home.

But, as Dorothy Parker said on the death of Calvin Coolidge, how could you tell?

Not buying it

maybe we need to dumb down the population. its too hard now to find anyone to do hand labor. we can create a whole new class of workers.

i predict we will get better drugs to lesson its effects and a vaccine to stop it partly this fall. and hope they rush it through for use. then they will have to let herd take its course.

i predict no vaccine. not in our lifetime. at least not a vaccine that substantially better than the flu vaccine

Flu Vaccine is a bit of a joke iyam.

lol @ science. They don't know jack shi.t about about any of this virus for certain.

they need to extend unemployment or open everything back the **** up. i know in my area im ****ed at my job for the year. went back to work june 5th got laid off again june 30th. im fine with staying home and social distancing but you cant ****ing not extend unmployment bonus and keep **** shutting **** down for the next year or 2

bruh, have you ever been in a middle school classroom in february since you were in middle school? or even worse an elementary school classroom?

cough sneeze cough cough *clears out throat and spits in the trash can* sneeze cough sniffle sniffle sniffle cough hacking cough yelling out answers snot rocket cough cough sneeze cough cough

**** that noise

it’d just be a purple haze of covid

grunching

Sorry, you lost this one basically before you posted it. Lots of CA school were already planning to stay closed and allow no kids on campus. All the schools in our school district are100% online until 7 consecutive days of zero infections in our county. Who knows when that will be.
At that point, they will revisit their plan and *maybe* bring the kids back.

So basically homeschooling for the forseeable future. If its anything like the end of the last school year, kids aren't going to learn ****. My son's teacher checked in only TWICE in 3 months. Literally everything teaching-wise was up to the parents, and that was a major complaint at the meetings for basically all the schools in grades K-6. Tons of teachers just said **** it, and went MIA