Jonger

New strains mutate and cycle through the population all the time. That's how our immune system evolved.

I usually post this every late August or early September. Fire season really changes our sky in the midwest.

Yes, the guy who actually uses snow in this subforum belongs down south.

Our testing centers double as tumbleweed farms and half the people walking around are wearing vented masks.

Air conditioning and they were late to the party when this thing was spiking in northern states.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/22/air-conditioned-rooms-help-spread-covid-19-research-shows/ Air-conditioned rooms help spread COVID-19, research shows In more humid rooms, virus droplets become heavier and fall faster in higher humidity, “providing less chances for other people to breathe in infectious viral droplets,” the team wrote, according to DW, a German news website. Dry air makes the droplets shrink and hang around, becoming what the scientists describe as an “optimal route” for transmission. Low humidity also dries out mucous membranes in the nose, making an easier way in for the coronavirus, they wrote.

Light weight.

Virtual is fine for college indefinitely. The cost needs to drop, the current rate of tuition increases aren't sustainable with or without COVID.

Yup. Just about every country or state graph looks the same for a reason. I'm lucky that our school district is going with face to face. Many districts got screwed on this one.

I'll take a hard pass on that. What a mess.

The kids and parents. Online classes are already mainstream now for college. Perhaps schools can cut their tuition by opening up enrollment to a larger student body. Kids are usually asymptomatic and virtually never hospitalized. It just makes sense to reduce spread by shutting down in-person courses for a few years. Maybe permanently. Maybe it's time to end physical colleges.

How are your kids attending this fall?

Being completed and within an appropriate timeframe, that's an easy answer -- it is. College can be putoff a few years after high school and many people do so now days. Pushing back K-12 a year or so is a terrible idea in comparison.

If it was a small company and one guy had 10 years of experience in the exact same role, the guy with experience would get the job everytime.

You back in Michigan?

Because a kid is only a kid for so long. Like it matters if a person graduates college at 22 or 23.

It wouldn't bother me one bit to cancel all face to face college courses. I find post K-12 schooling far less essential, especially the need for in-person.

Oh, there's definitely a threshold where I would worry, but we haven't gotten close to that level yet.

I have sat through the zoom sessions that took place last spring. It was a mess. Zoom teaching is fully dependent on how competent the parent is. Many kids will simply lose 1.5 years of school in the middle of their childhood. Last spring was a disaster. I don't blame the teachers for it either.

We know the long term problems associated with a bad economy and kids not going to school. That's proven.

I mean... it couldn't hurt, but 3 square meals eaten daily with a snack before bed probably contributes more than anything. I personally stopped eating lunch and my own situation has improved dramatically. This whole problem can't be solved by the government. For one thing, obesity really accelerates for people in their 30s. I doubt Obama's school lunch initiatives will matter for most.

Without obesity, this would probably have never been a thing to begin with. It's a small minority of non-obese people dying... a very small minority. As much as I believe Sweden handled it correctly, we probably couldn't take that same path without a higher death per million count. We would flood hospitals with the older, obese population.

Wake me up when people in a low risk situation are dying. Until then, let's mask up and get back to business and school.

Lol @ cases In a state of 9.5M. Let's rob kids of a childhood and ruin livelihoods over that.