The key word there is CHOICE. Yes it is about CHOICE. Not what others dictate how we live and die by what they believe. There are experts on both sides of the fence. It should be a matter of CHOICE at this point.
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The key word there is CHOICE. Yes it is about CHOICE. Not what others dictate how we live and die by what they believe. There are experts on both sides of the fence. It should be a matter of CHOICE at this point.
ALLEGANY COUNTY CURRENT COVID NUMBERS:
July 9 and 12 - total tested 1,059
total positive cases 4 (2 local / 2 out of state)
UMPC Western Maryland Hospitalizations - 2
Number of fatalities for people under the age of 20 in Maryland and West Virginia since pandemic started - 1
July 9 and 12 - total tested 1,059
total positive cases 4 (2 local / 2 out of state)
UMPC Western Maryland Hospitalizations - 2
Number of fatalities for people under the age of 20 in Maryland and West Virginia since pandemic started - 1
Below is the link to the CDC vaccine effectiveness showing 29% for the 2018-2019 flu season. There was only one season since 2009 when the flu vaccine reached up to 60% effectiveness. Again, this begs the question as to why would we wait for a vaccine to open the schools. How would the children benefit from a vaccine when they already have greater immunity than most vaccines would give them.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies.htm
I'm not a vaccine expert but I believe the reason why flu vaccines prove to be ineffective is that there are several flu strains. Making it difficult to guess the right one when developing the vaccine. I'm guessing there is only one particular covid-19 strain that they're developing a vaccine for. I could be wrong but that's my guess. Either way it will probably mutate. Rendering the vaccine useless anyway.
And.... they do combine multiple strains in each year's flu shot. H1N1 is still around...
- The A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccine component was updated from an A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus to an A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus.
- The A(H3N2) vaccine component was updated from an A/Singapore/INFIMH-16-0019/2016 A(H3N2)-like virus to an A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus.
- Both B/Victoria and B/Yamagata virus components from the 2018-2019 flu vaccine remain the same for the 2019-2020 flu vaccine.
Well there is still over a 99% survival rate for those that got infected. The best vaccine is created by the human body. That is how nature works. But mankind, especially in the US, has decided to fight immunity and hide. What could have been squashed in maybe 8 months to a year will now extend into 3 to 4 years. The same amount of people will die, it will just take longer.
I have had many epiphanies since this all began back in March about the human race. What is most disgusting is the view that one death equates to mass hysteria. Doesn't matter if the death is from an 85 year old with lung cancer. If that person can die from a virus we all have to shut our doors. Not much different from any other socialist movement. The problem with this type of thinking however, is that people die from a huge array of reasons. Yet they don't fret about those reasons. It's almost a comedy or a Far Side cartoon where a guy is sitting on the couch watching CNN. He weighs 400 lbs with high blood pressure and is eating an entire cake while criticizing people for not wearing a mask. Despite heart disease being the #1 killer on the planet by a land slide, his fears derive from what they tell him watching the boob tube.
It was at this point I realized the role media and political ideals get impounded upon society to the point they literally can make humans fear just about anything.
I get a kick out of seeing people count the current 3.7 million cases in the US. Guess again. Try 30-50 million. Yet, few want to acknowledge this is possible because it is counter productive to their narrative.
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Here is one for you Lag. Not sure if you read sports headlines. But so far 37 Clemson football players have tested positive for COVID. None were hospitalized. So if 90 players can test positive along with the coaching staff does that mean that can at least practice and play with each other? That is what herd immunity does. When I was young there was such as thing as Chicken Pox Parties where parents would bring their children over to a house when another child had the virus so their child could get it. This was important because research showed it was better to have Chicken Pox as a child whereas adults died from it.
It is called immunity. And we have taken the other direction now. Hiding.
I agree TD it should be about CHOICE! I can understand and respect why certain teachers and students may not want to do in person education. I also understand why others do want in-person education.
One thing I learned from this past spring when we went to virtual learning is this. It is so important to have hard working, competent teachers in students lives for many reasons. It gives those who often don't have support at home (and that number is increasing) a chance for a more successful adult life.
Virtual learning is not a level playing field. Some families do not have the money it takes to have good computers or reliable internet. It is usually those students from those type of families who rely on in-person teaching the most.
Posters can have opinions, but the reality is the state of MD and local health departments are calling the shots:
https://www.times-news.com/news/loc...cle_7882a25d-423e-533e-b0df-3f69cfb134ed.html
School systems, under the strict requirements of local health departments, can open if those strict requirements are in place.
Bottom line: If students in MD are permitted to enter school buildings, will a school day look like a typical school day? My bet would be “No.”
https://www.times-news.com/news/loc...cle_7882a25d-423e-533e-b0df-3f69cfb134ed.html
School systems, under the strict requirements of local health departments, can open if those strict requirements are in place.
Bottom line: If students in MD are permitted to enter school buildings, will a school day look like a typical school day? My bet would be “No.”
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I was fortunate enough to travel all around Europe in my younger days. What struct me the most about Germany was how clean and meticulous it was. So, how could such people, so advanced, have lived next to the prison camps and not know what was going on.... what with the endless trains and the smell of burning flesh.
The answer is they did know. That is the same answer here, today. There is no effective gaslighting going on about the facts of this virus. Sure, news is really narrative and social media shadow bans contrarians. But even the most liberal parents know their children would be safe at school. I see it in my own neighborhood. They have their parties and their friends with children over..... they set off their own fireworks. And.... of course.... Just like governor Newsom.... they send their kids to private schools.
My liberal neighbors don't know my libertarian politics, but they have no problem telling me that the lockdowns, riots and shuttering of schools is but a small price to pay for getting rid of Trump.
Occam's razor once again: the simple explanation is the correct one. Nothing makes sense in all this mess except politics. The stench of abused children, battered spouses, torched businesses, neglected medical care, suicides and murdered elderly in nursing homes has been all around us. But just like the folks living next to the German prison camps... folks know all this, but accept a greater good.
Wild video shows people flooding Astoria’s Steinway Street without masks
...Later, a group of officers can be seen standing on a corner looking on as crowds walk by....The maskless parties have been going on for two weeks, claims resident Michelle Mouquin, who lives across the street from Brik.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/video-shows-people-in-queens-flooding-streets-without-masks/
...Later, a group of officers can be seen standing on a corner looking on as crowds walk by....The maskless parties have been going on for two weeks, claims resident Michelle Mouquin, who lives across the street from Brik.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/video-shows-people-in-queens-flooding-streets-without-masks/
Of course it's a deal with the "New Green Deal" devil. They will pay dearly...as will their kids. As will we all when the looters and moochers come to power. In future hindsight it won't be a small price at all....it will be huge.
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There are 4 new cases in Allegany County out of 1059 tested.
There are 2 people hospitalized
The positivity rate is nearly 0
There is a plan in place to follow - even includes how we deal with buses.
If this is not good enough, what is your barometer for opening schools? You can't answer this question. Because it means we can't open schools for 4-5 years.
As stated in my previous post, your “barometer” or my “barometer” have no say in the matter. The state and the local health department will determine what schools will look like at the beginning of the year and throughout the school year.
Our voices are mere banter on a sports’ message board.
As a concerned citizen, it sounds like you need to have a conversation with individuals at the state and county health departments.
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I made my thoughts very clear to you several days ago when you asked me.
Again, the state and county health departments will determine how many students can ride a bus, be in a specific area at any one time, whether or not masks will be required, etc. We can share our perspectives all we want, but we ain’t callin’ the shots.
Again, the state and county health departments will determine how many students can ride a bus, be in a specific area at any one time, whether or not masks will be required, etc. We can share our perspectives all we want, but we ain’t callin’ the shots.
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Incorrect, it will be up to the teachers unions and their lawyers to decide. They have already stated in most counties they will strike before health departments open schools. All the while I have a teacher arguing last night about not reopening schools while thanking god she was headed to Myrtle Beach for 2 weeks.
Uh...if memory serves me correctly teachers can’t strike in MD.
I challenge you to call any superintendent in the state of MD and ask that person who has the authority over whether or not schools open or are closed and what the requirements will be if schools do open. Then ask the person who is calling the shots regarding protocols for either scenario.
Furthermore, I challenge you to call any county health department in MD and ask what institution determines if schools open or close and what institution establishes the protocols for either scenario.
Do departments of health work with school systems? I’m sure they do, but health departments are ultimately determining yay or nay with very specific conditions.
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Yep, I thought I was correct. Teachers can’t strike in MD.
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/education/title-6/subtitle-4/6-410/
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2010/education/title-6/subtitle-4/6-410/
Like MCsoccerplex and others have been saying this is a perfect example of why we should leave it to the professionals. Listening to you, lag and Trump would only get more people killed with your disinformation like saying "Maryland teacher unions are going to have the final say" along with your other conspiracy theories. smh
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I wouldn't leave anything up to the liberals, they still haven't figured out there's only 2 Gender's until they start making up names for others they want to create instead of just calling it mental illness.Like MCsoccerplex and others have been saying this is a perfect example of why we should leave it to the professionals. Listening to you, lag and Trump would only get more people killed with your disinformation like saying "Maryland teacher unions are going to have the final say" along with your other conspiracy theories. smh
They are letting a Man dressed as a Woman to without any credentials make the Health decisions in PA.
This thing is a child psychologist and who on Earth would allow it to be anywhere near their child?
if I found it with my child IT would be leaving in a zipped up bag.
https://www.eriereader.com/article/a-conversation-with-dr-rachel-levine
I'm no Expert on Health but I also don't believe this Virus is as bad as they want to make it out to be, If it weren't for the Nursing home Deaths in places like PA and NY this thing wouldn't have been so bad and Those Governors pretty much killed those people and will probably cost the Taxpayers a lot of Money.
I go out every day with no mask and only put it on if I have to and avoid most places that require them luckily Altoona & Winchester doesn't make a big deal about like the local's that are living in fear.
It's either safe or it's not...
I go to the bar for my leagues 3 nights a week and not 1 mask and haven't heard of 1 person out of about 90 people having it so either they have it and we don't know which also means they have very good immune systems and we shouldn't worry so much.
2 days ago a very far left guy on my facebook is bitching that everything should be closed down because people aren't wearing mask and are listening to Trump and gonna get us all killed, but yesterday I walk into the Bar after a round of golf and he's sitting there at the bar with 2 guys and not wearing a mask and not a single person in there was either. That's The Hypocrisy that is making this so stupid, either mask work or they don't, I'm not wearing a mask to make you feel better, if you're scared stay home. These same people that are demanding School stay closed are going shopping, going to the beach and having cookouts then complain about businesses that they think should close down.
Just Live Your Life and this whole Covid-19 thing will be over Tuesday, November 3, 2020
"I'm no Expert on Health but I also don't believe this Virus is as bad as they want to make it out to be"
Bahamas closes borders to U.S. tourists after COVID-19 cases spike; others still welcome
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article244340147.html
You're right.. You, Todd, Lag and any other science and reality deniers are NO EXPERTS! So why not leave it to the experts?
I have a relative who is a teacher and she's sick to death of hearing about the very example you are saying. She wants to teach, she wants schools to open with as many safety precautions as possible, and she's truly worried about her students that are shall we say a little slow and they aren't getting her hands on approach that makes all the difference. I'm sure there are a lot more like her than we hear about.
I am certainly glad vaccine researchers at Oxford University are not dismissing COVID-19...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rL3RJI5srO2QBdmVbqKSYW6Vl10yXKeBT9-81XPiwEPsY
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...rL3RJI5srO2QBdmVbqKSYW6Vl10yXKeBT9-81XPiwEPsY
leave it to the experts?
You mean the one's that said we shouldn't reduce travel from China and that we should attend festivals in NY and San Francisco, then used phony models to shut the country down. You mean the one's who continue to use phony data combining positive tests with antibody tests, calling them all new cases? You mean the one's that said we should build dozens of back-up hospital locations for overflow virus victims that went virtually unused. You mean the one's who advised 5 governors to force nursing homes to accept additional elderly with the virus, murdering thousands....or, do you mean the 1,288 experts that issued an open letter encouraging hundreds of thousands of protestors to fill the streets.......
"Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To the extent possible, we support the application of these public health best practices during demonstrations that call attention to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy," the letter says.
".... as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-letter-protests-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
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Experts Like Flip Flop Fauci? or The Man Richard Levine in PA that is so mentally ill it actually think it's a Woman? Hell No, I won't Listen or take guidance from those idiots.
Many doctors have stated we have to protect the most vulnerable except most states failed to do so
and many doctors have said we need to let it run it's course and let our immune system fight it off with herd immunity.
I'm not Wearing a Mask Nor am I taking a Vaccine... I don't take flu shots and i'm not planning on taking this either.
I will let my immune system work the way it was meant to work my entire life.
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/cloth-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19
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Like MCsoccerplex and others have been saying this is a perfect example of why we should leave it to the professionals. Listening to you, lag and Trump would only get more people killed with your disinformation like saying "Maryland teacher unions are going to have the final say" along with your other conspiracy theories. smh
The problem is people like you want others to live the way you see fit. I fight for the right to have a CHOICE. You have heard this 50 times by now but it just won't sink in. NOBODY IS MAKING YOUR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL. If others want that option it's not your place to say they cannot. Your analogy that one person dying is not acceptable is on the lower scale of the IQ chart.
Now you are starting to get it.
So when this thing hit back in March close to 1 million people fled NY - the epicenter of the world at the time. Here is a clue: TRAVELING SPREADS THE VIRUS MORE THAN ANYTHING. Yet when Trump attempted to shut down people traveling out of NY, Gov. Cuomo fought it so people could leave the state. Yet when a place like the Bahamas try to do the same it's OK. Your hypocrisy is extremel
BROWARD COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S EMERGENCY ORDER 20-22
Residential Property Residents. All persons who reside on any residential property, whether single family or multi-family, and irrespective of whether they own or rent the property, must ensure that all persons on the residential property, including guests, comply with all applicable guidelines of any Broward County Emergency Order, including the facial covering requirements.
https://www.broward.org/CoronaVirus/Documents/EmergencyOrder20-22.pdf
Residential Property Residents. All persons who reside on any residential property, whether single family or multi-family, and irrespective of whether they own or rent the property, must ensure that all persons on the residential property, including guests, comply with all applicable guidelines of any Broward County Emergency Order, including the facial covering requirements.
https://www.broward.org/CoronaVirus/Documents/EmergencyOrder20-22.pdf
So a woman walks into a local restaurant yesterday. While ordering take out notices some of the employees did not have masks on. She goes to social media, the police, the politicians and demands they enforce the laws.
That is when I realized wearing a mask was not about COVID safety to many people. It is about forcing others to do what you want. Here is why...there were 40 other people in the dining room beside this woman eating and drinking without masks. Now, if COVID safety was really her first concern, she should be no where near any restaurant where people are eating and drinking.
I am positive some of you just won't get what I just typed.
That is when I realized wearing a mask was not about COVID safety to many people. It is about forcing others to do what you want. Here is why...there were 40 other people in the dining room beside this woman eating and drinking without masks. Now, if COVID safety was really her first concern, she should be no where near any restaurant where people are eating and drinking.
I am positive some of you just won't get what I just typed.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nash...9vd2HgTN-yZc3riw8LaRhY9emoHNmt9ZRw_xVN42FJILc
Nashville Man Told By State He’s Positive For Coronavirus. He Was Never Tested.
By Amanda Prestigiacomo
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Jul 21, 2020 DailyWire.com
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Dowell via Getty Images
A Nashville man told his local news station last week that he received at least three calls from the state about apparently testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
The problem? He was never tested.
According to News4 Investigates, Brock Ballou, a resident of the Nashville suburb of Mount Juliet, said he was anticipating a call from a contact tracer after one of his coworkers tested positive for COVID-19. However, the tracer repeatedly told Mr. Ballou that he was positive for the virus, despite the fact that he was never tested, he says.
“She specifically said – I’m looking at it right here – you tested positive – this is a follow up call to see how your symptoms are,” Ballou told the news station.
Asked if he possibly misheard the woman on the phone, Ballou said she reiterated his supposedly positive test results multiple times.
“I’m 100 percent sure that’s what she said, she was looking right at it,” he recalled, “she told me I’m in the system – looking right at it that you’re showing positive.”
Over the following days, Ballou received more calls from the state about his COVID symptoms.
“(The contact tracer) said I’m still seeing that you’re positive. Courtesy call – checking your symptoms,” he said.
News4 Investigates said all three phone numbers used to reach out to Ballou have been confirmed by the news station to have come from workers with the state health department of Tennessee.
The apparent discrepancy has Ballou questioning the accuracy of the state’s COVID-19 case counts.
“I said I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s wrong. I’m just another number when I’m not.”
The Tennessee health department confirmed through a spokeswoman that they are investigating the discrepancy.
“I can also tell you there is no concern with our count of cases in regard to our reporting of those who test positive,” the spokeswoman said. “Those entries are based on lab results, not on information provided from the monitoring team.”
According to Ballou, he’s been told by the state that the calls made to him were done via a third party contracted by the health department.
As noted by The Daily Wire last week, the Florida State Health Department confirmed that some testing laboratories in the state have not been disclosing their negative novel coronavirus testing results accurately, skewing the positivity rates dramatically. At least two labs were discovered to have inflated their positivity rates of the virus by a factor of ten.
“Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates,” FOX 35 explained Tuesday.
It was uncovered that Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center’s reported positivity rate of 76% was actually around 6%, a spokesperson for the center revealed. FOX 35 added, “Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.”
Related: Florida Labs Found Significantly Inflating Positive COVID Testing Rate
Nashville Man Told By State He’s Positive For Coronavirus. He Was Never Tested.
By Amanda Prestigiacomo
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Jul 21, 2020 DailyWire.com
•
Dowell via Getty Images
A Nashville man told his local news station last week that he received at least three calls from the state about apparently testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
The problem? He was never tested.
According to News4 Investigates, Brock Ballou, a resident of the Nashville suburb of Mount Juliet, said he was anticipating a call from a contact tracer after one of his coworkers tested positive for COVID-19. However, the tracer repeatedly told Mr. Ballou that he was positive for the virus, despite the fact that he was never tested, he says.
“She specifically said – I’m looking at it right here – you tested positive – this is a follow up call to see how your symptoms are,” Ballou told the news station.
Asked if he possibly misheard the woman on the phone, Ballou said she reiterated his supposedly positive test results multiple times.
“I’m 100 percent sure that’s what she said, she was looking right at it,” he recalled, “she told me I’m in the system – looking right at it that you’re showing positive.”
Over the following days, Ballou received more calls from the state about his COVID symptoms.
“(The contact tracer) said I’m still seeing that you’re positive. Courtesy call – checking your symptoms,” he said.
News4 Investigates said all three phone numbers used to reach out to Ballou have been confirmed by the news station to have come from workers with the state health department of Tennessee.
The apparent discrepancy has Ballou questioning the accuracy of the state’s COVID-19 case counts.
“I said I don’t know what’s going on, but it’s wrong. I’m just another number when I’m not.”
The Tennessee health department confirmed through a spokeswoman that they are investigating the discrepancy.
“I can also tell you there is no concern with our count of cases in regard to our reporting of those who test positive,” the spokeswoman said. “Those entries are based on lab results, not on information provided from the monitoring team.”
According to Ballou, he’s been told by the state that the calls made to him were done via a third party contracted by the health department.
As noted by The Daily Wire last week, the Florida State Health Department confirmed that some testing laboratories in the state have not been disclosing their negative novel coronavirus testing results accurately, skewing the positivity rates dramatically. At least two labs were discovered to have inflated their positivity rates of the virus by a factor of ten.
“Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates,” FOX 35 explained Tuesday.
It was uncovered that Orlando Veteran’s Medical Center’s reported positivity rate of 76% was actually around 6%, a spokesperson for the center revealed. FOX 35 added, “Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.”
Related: Florida Labs Found Significantly Inflating Positive COVID Testing Rate
https://www.times-news.com/news/cor...cle_09a7bcba-efeb-543c-946c-8563f135fdda.html
ANNAPOLIS — As Maryland on Tuesday saw its largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases in more than a month, education officials called for the upcoming school year’s fall semester to be virtual.
The Maryland State Education Association, Baltimore Teachers Union and Maryland PTA sent a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan and State School Superintendent Karen Salmon that asked them to protect the health and safety of Maryland students, educators and families.
Representing more than 75,000 educators across the state, MSEA President and elementary school teacher Cheryl Bost said virtual learning is necessary to protect the safety of staff, students and families.
“We believe it is the right approach,” she said. “Caution now makes it more likely that we will be able to transition to a hybrid model after the year begins, and possibly a mostly in-person model later in the school year when it is safe.”
BTU President Diamonté Brown said educators prefer in-person teaching, but want to ensure safety of staff and students.
“It is more convenient to teach in person,” she said. “However, it is not right now the safest way.”
Brown also talked of the inequities among districts.
Many Baltimore City students must use public transportation to get to school, which puts them at added risk for COVID-19, she said.
MPTA representative Tonya Sweat said the organization stands with the state’s educators.
“These are not ordinary times,” she said. “We are now facing a new and unprecedented reality in which every child’s health and those whom they come in contact with are at risk.”
To ask parents to return their children to school under such circumstances is “reckless,” Sweat said.
“Especially in the face of overcrowded classrooms, insufficient health protocols and poor planning,” she said. “This is totally not acceptable.”
Although President Donald Trump has pushed for schools across the country to reopen, Hogan told NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday that Maryland education officials “are not going to be rushed into” sending students back to school.
Salmon has been meeting with local school jurisdictions and top health professionals to gather information, he said.
“We’re going to come up with a plan … probably going to be a hybrid that talks about how we’re going to provide the best education we can for our kids and do it in a safe way,” Hogan said.
ANNAPOLIS — As Maryland on Tuesday saw its largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases in more than a month, education officials called for the upcoming school year’s fall semester to be virtual.
The Maryland State Education Association, Baltimore Teachers Union and Maryland PTA sent a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan and State School Superintendent Karen Salmon that asked them to protect the health and safety of Maryland students, educators and families.
Representing more than 75,000 educators across the state, MSEA President and elementary school teacher Cheryl Bost said virtual learning is necessary to protect the safety of staff, students and families.
“We believe it is the right approach,” she said. “Caution now makes it more likely that we will be able to transition to a hybrid model after the year begins, and possibly a mostly in-person model later in the school year when it is safe.”
BTU President Diamonté Brown said educators prefer in-person teaching, but want to ensure safety of staff and students.
“It is more convenient to teach in person,” she said. “However, it is not right now the safest way.”
Brown also talked of the inequities among districts.
Many Baltimore City students must use public transportation to get to school, which puts them at added risk for COVID-19, she said.
MPTA representative Tonya Sweat said the organization stands with the state’s educators.
“These are not ordinary times,” she said. “We are now facing a new and unprecedented reality in which every child’s health and those whom they come in contact with are at risk.”
To ask parents to return their children to school under such circumstances is “reckless,” Sweat said.
“Especially in the face of overcrowded classrooms, insufficient health protocols and poor planning,” she said. “This is totally not acceptable.”
Although President Donald Trump has pushed for schools across the country to reopen, Hogan told NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday that Maryland education officials “are not going to be rushed into” sending students back to school.
Salmon has been meeting with local school jurisdictions and top health professionals to gather information, he said.
“We’re going to come up with a plan … probably going to be a hybrid that talks about how we’re going to provide the best education we can for our kids and do it in a safe way,” Hogan said.
Yep, local health departments are in control of the decisions local school systems make...
“Salmon said the Maryland State Department of Education has set three “guardrails” for the 2020-21 school year. School systems must adhere to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for schools, comply with state health protocols for addressing an outbreak of COVID-19 and include equity as a benchmark for local recovery plans.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-superintendent-schools-coronavirus-20200722-20200722-wpc6uuaherfabgu2flhxtwuepy-story.html?outputType=amp
“Salmon said the Maryland State Department of Education has set three “guardrails” for the 2020-21 school year. School systems must adhere to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for schools, comply with state health protocols for addressing an outbreak of COVID-19 and include equity as a benchmark for local recovery plans.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-superintendent-schools-coronavirus-20200722-20200722-wpc6uuaherfabgu2flhxtwuepy-story.html?outputType=amp
I won't go into politics on this discussion but will give you my personal opinion as a teacher. Our students desperately need to be in school period! Are their risks, Yes and perhaps it may be riskier now than before but as I've said before a choice would be great! In person or online. Some students will do fine and maybe even better online due to their learning style and ability to learn without the distractions of their peers. Many students get little or nothing from online learning and many of those are the ones who need it most.
If you talk to enough teachers and ask about what the experience was like from mid March through June of 2020 you will find the above statement true. I heard from the students whose parents truly care about their education. In my school that is about 75% of the students, the other 25% dropped off the radar. The reasons are many: no internet or computers, no parental support or for many no parents at all and grandparents, aunts or uncles who are not tech savvy enough to naivigate online learning.
Somehow we have moved into the line of thinking that we cannot move forward into anything unless their is ZERO risk of something negative happening or someone getting offended. That mindset is paraylyzing the ability of our schools and society to make any type of progress which is very concerning to me.
If you talk to enough teachers and ask about what the experience was like from mid March through June of 2020 you will find the above statement true. I heard from the students whose parents truly care about their education. In my school that is about 75% of the students, the other 25% dropped off the radar. The reasons are many: no internet or computers, no parental support or for many no parents at all and grandparents, aunts or uncles who are not tech savvy enough to naivigate online learning.
Somehow we have moved into the line of thinking that we cannot move forward into anything unless their is ZERO risk of something negative happening or someone getting offended. That mindset is paraylyzing the ability of our schools and society to make any type of progress which is very concerning to me.
When over 300 million people agreed to the concept that the government can lockdown healthy people it was all over. Folks thought, "Hell, for 15 days we can be violated." Nobody.... well... mostly nobody thought they had ceded unbridled, limitless government power to forever ruin lives by simply declaring an epidemic. But now we know that the difference between welding apartment doors shut in China and bankrupting 40% of minority small businesses is only a matter of degrees.
"Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people." - Ezra Taft Benson.
And there you are. Emergencies managed by well meaning people, who wrote the initial laws, are one thing.... but agenda driven - by any means necessary - people proves only one thing: evil exists. We have gone from identifying and isolating the sick and their contacts to manipulating and persecuting the healthy public at large. Worse still, it is been accomplished by purposely killing off those at greatest risk and falsifying data.
During emergencies, there have been instances where the government has overstepped its authority... Katrina stands out. Over a year later the courts ruled as such. The aforementioned example is frightening considering our current situation.
As food for thought, I give you a link to the NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures). The page has detailed information on State Quarantine and Isolation Statues. You can make up your own mind the intent of each state's laws regarding epidemics. Personally, I believe our survival is in doubt.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-quarantine-and-isolation-statutes.aspx
Noooooooo. Say it a'int so. Not the CDC too now! Oh my god. And from CNN - it has to be true. Hahahahahahaha
New CDC guidelines in favor of opening schools this fall
https://www.wtae.com/article/new-cd...n-favor-of-opening-schools-this-fall/33409819
New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on education and child care come down hard in favor of opening schools, saying children don't suffer much from coronavirus, are less likely than adults to spread it and suffer from being out of school.
New CDC guidelines in favor of opening schools this fall
https://www.wtae.com/article/new-cd...n-favor-of-opening-schools-this-fall/33409819
New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on education and child care come down hard in favor of opening schools, saying children don't suffer much from coronavirus, are less likely than adults to spread it and suffer from being out of school.
"The CDC has been promising new guidelines for more than a week, after demands from President Donald Trump that the agency alter its recommendations for opening schools."
Pence says CDC changing school reopening guidelines after Trump called them 'tough and expensive'
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5398493002
Breaking news! Trump personally writes revised CDC guidelines after CDC director tear gased by Trumps secret police. Lmao hahaha I just can't with you tools this morning...
The lack of real danger for children and even their lack of ability to pass the virus to adults has been common knowledge for some time. ..... Ugh.... hard to accept the truth but the educational system doesn't care about the kids.... they never did.... besides, getting paid for nothing grows on folks, especially if you get paid for both sitting on your ass and advancing your political agenda.... This from the NPR no less:
Throughout the pandemic, many child care centers have stayed open for the children of front-line workers -- everyone from doctors to grocery store clerks. YMCA of the USA and New York City's Department of Education have been caring for, collectively, tens of thousands of children since March and both tell NPR they have no reports of a coronavirus clusters or outbreaks.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882316641/what-parents-can-learn-from-child-care-centers-that-stayed-open-during-lockdowns
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