OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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  1. BigGameDamian

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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I've seen nothing from the CDC about children being 50% as prolific as adults at spreading the disease.
    You get a bunch of children in the room and you've got a hot box of potential Covid-19.
    I can see the logic swinging both ways so I'd call it a judgement call.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    You mean the same CDC that has been so ahead of the the curve on Covid under Trump? In case you haven’t noticed, there’s been more than a little politics involved in the agency’s actions.

    Look, there is a new variant of the virus that’s originated in Europe. It’s only now beginning to show up in the US so we don’t have much direct experience with it. Because of its more efficient transmission, it’s expected to be the dominant strain in Oregon by March. That dovetails with when Governor Brown wants to open schools here. In Europe, they thought they could manage the new virus in school settings with masks, hand washing and social distancing. They’ve discovered that they can’t and that the kids are spreading the disease. If reports on that in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal don’t meet your standards for legitimacy, I don’t know what to tell you.

    We have an opportunity to get the elderly and most vulnerable citizens vaccinated before the new variant potentially increases spread here. Governor Brown has chosen to squander two weeks of that opportunity to get teachers vaccinated. Based on the virus’s projected rate of spread, we don’t have two weeks. You said it’s a judgment call, and it is. Good judgment calls for weighing the best information available in order to make decisions that impact people’s lives. While we don’t have definitive answers on kids’ impact on spread of the new variant, we certainly have troubling reports out of Europe. In the face of that and the potential cost in human lives and suffering, just what is the hurry here in pushing to open schools?
     
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    So sorry, HCP.
     
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    I last updated the number of people who have passed from Covid to 300,000 on Dec 13th.

    100,000 people have passed in just a month.

    Prayers.
     
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    that’s just crazy...
     
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    Let me reiterate, I'm not totally against what your are saying.
     
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    Just a last present from Donald Trump.
     
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    Glad its all finally over.
     
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    What's over? The pandemic?
     
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    My wife LITERALLY just said the same thing to me.
     
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    He probably forgot he signed it.
     

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