@songbird wrote:
@fthunt wrote:
I feel so sorry for the little kids - K-6. Trying to understand this mess & have been primed by parents to start school, like school and met new friends. When I was that age we had fearful events happening - might need bomb shelters - Russians coming for us and other issues............which I remember very well.
I've read some kids have gotten but most of the time, the symptoms are mild. At least in Georgia and other Southern schools that start early. I don't know if any have died. If they had, you would have heard holy heck. Kids spread anything. I have this feeling that the virus has lost it's punch even though each day more adults have died. After labor day, most K-through High school will start. I still think they should be online, especially the middle to high schools. Good training if they want to go online at universities. I took several classes online and did fine with it. Total U.S.death toll must be over 160,000 by now...
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Today the death toll today 189,272 so it is well over 160,00. I am not sure this virus has lost its punch. Hopefully, the number of new cases are declining in some areas that were hot spots previously. Fingers crossed it stays that way.
Fortunately, the younger kids tend to do better with this with some experts theorizing it is because younger kids tend not to have the ACE2 receptor activity that occurs with adults. However, they are now seeing complications in some teens that were thought to be asymptomatic at first that then develop other respiratory and cardiac problems a couple of months later. Hard to tell at this point since they are still learning so much about this virus.
My grandson started high school online last week. We were really grateful they started online here in our area.
Another district started in person classes for K-12 and they had a record number of children withdraw from the district and move to home schooling. People just were not ready to send their kids back with the virus percolating to the extent it was and sending their kids back to school. Additionally, we still have a number of people still assigned to working at home or they lost their job due to the pandemic so they took the opportunity to home school their children rather than send them to in person class in that particular district. Even with the signficiant drop in enrollment, they have still had close to 100 cases (students, teachers, and staff) now since they started 2 weeks ago.
So many different angles to consider and it varies throughout the country due to the test positivity rate of that county. The state of Kentucky also has a considerable number of grandparents that are raising school aged grandchildren, so that plays into the concerns a well.
One of our largest universities, the University of Kentucky now has over 700 students that have tested positive with the local health department warning that cases in the student population are increasing. I think they are talking about possibly doing a hybrid approach to some of their courses. At least it is an option they are considering. Instead of meeting in person for all class times, several of the class times during the week would be online. I don't think they have made a decision yet though.
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