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A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine.

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A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine.

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8/6/20
Last week, schools in Corinth, Miss., welcomed back hundreds of students. By Friday, one high-schooler tested positive for the novel coronavirus. By early this week, the count rose to six students and one staff member infected. Now, 116 students have been sent home to quarantine, a spokeswoman for the school district confirmed. Despite the quick fallout, the district’s superintendent said he has no plans to change course. “Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school,” Superintendent Lee Childress said in a Facebook Live broadcast on Tuesday on the school district’s Facebook page. As districts around the country debate the merits of in-person classes vs. remote learning amid an escalating novel coronavirus pandemic, the Corinth School District’s early experience shows how quickly positive tests can lead to larger quarantines. Other districts that have welcomed teachers or students back have faced similar challenges. After teachers returned to plan lessons in Georgia’s largest district, 260 district employees were barred from reentering schools because of either testing positive for the coronavirus or being in close contact with someone who had. In southeast Kansas, six school administrators tested positive after attending a three-day retreat. And within hours of opening, a school in Greenfield, Ind., was informed by the health department that a student had the virus.

Mississippi has been among the hardest-hit states in the South and could overtake Florida as the top state for cases per capita, according to researchers at Harvard University. The state has had more than 63,000 coronavirus cases and more than 1,800 deaths to date. On Tuesday, Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said in a Facebook post that he would delay school opening for seventh to 12th grades in hot spots. The governor also mandated masks in schools and ordered a two-week mask requirement for public gatherings. In Corinth, the school district gave families an option of either sending their children to school buildings or doing distance learning from home. “We made the decision that even though we had seen a spike in those numbers, that schools needed to reopen and at the same time, schools need to remain open,” Childress said in the Facebook Live broadcast. Despite the positive tests and quarantines, Childress said he remained optimistic about the school district’s plans. He encouraged the families to wear masks, and he urged everyone with children in quarantine to stay home until getting their test results. “We’ve had a good start of school,” Childress said. “We’re going to have some more positive cases. We know that. We know it will happen. We’re going to have to deal with it, and I can assure that we will deal with it and when we impose quarantines on students and staff, we are doing that for a reason.”

“Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school." That sounds suspiciously like Southern Republican for "it is what it is."
 
By early this week, the count rose to six students and one staff member infected. Now, 116 students have been sent home to quarantine, a spokeswoman for the school district confirmed.

We don't do this with the flu.

If a kid has the virus they should stay home. Quarantining people because they sat next to someone with a mild illness is histrionic.
 
We don't do this with the flu.

If a kid has the virus they should stay home. Quarantining people because they sat next to someone with a mild illness is histrionic.



It's not "the flu". Why don't you get that?
 
MS has the worst health care in the country. The hospitals are already full.
 
We don't do this with the flu.
If a kid has the virus they should stay home. Quarantining people because they sat next to someone with a mild illness is histrionic.

What's wrong with treating the flu like the flu and covid like covid?

Why should we treat these two markedly different diseases identically?




When was the last time someone recovered from the flu but had to have an amputation?
When was the last time someone recovered from the flu but had long term heart and lung issues (which could be permanent)?
 
It's not "the flu". Why don't you get that?

Correct. Biologically speaking it's a cold virus with severity comparable to the flu.

Though for children, it might be more straightforward to just call it a cold.

What's wrong with treating the flu like the flu and covid like covid?

Why should we treat these two markedly different diseases identically?

The flu is more dangerous for children, so we should be treating Covid less seriously.

When was the last time someone recovered from the flu but had to have an amputation?
When was the last time someone recovered from the flu but had long term heart and lung issues (which could be permanent)?

I don't know. Sometime this year in all likelihood.
 
The flu is more dangerous for children, so we should be treating Covid less seriously.
Even if we were absolutley sure this is true [we're not] it fails to address the fact that very few children live on their own.

Most children live with parents, grandparents or other adult caregivers.
The death or serious illness of a caregiver does harm to children.


Meanwhile, it's a helluva thing to want to gamble the lives of (at least) thousands of Americans on some **** we're not sure about.
 
Correct. Biologically speaking it's a cold virus with severity comparable to the flu.

Ummm. No. Plus COVID (R[sub]0[/sub] 5.7) is much more infectious than the common flu (R[sub]0[/sub] 1.5).

Though for children, it might be more straightforward to just call it a cold.

Like we call smallpox just a rash?

The flu is more dangerous for children, so we should be treating Covid less seriously.

We'll need citations for this claim. Empirical data and peer reviewed studies.
 
We don't do this with the flu.

If a kid has the virus they should stay home. Quarantining people because they sat next to someone with a mild illness is histrionic.

Ask yourself why epidemiologists are treating covid differently than flu. Educate yourself.
 
The flu is more dangerous for children, so we should be treating Covid less seriously.

COVID is more infectious and more dangerous for their parents and grandparents than the flu, so we should be treating COVID more seriously and doing whatever we can to prevent children from becoming infected and killing their legal guardians.
 
Ask yourself why epidemiologists are treating covid differently than flu. Educate yourself.

It's an election year for one thing. Also, anyone who points out that it's not that bad is accused of being uncaring, wanting to kill people, etc. which creates a one-way incentive for ever-increasing hysteria.
 
Correct. Biologically speaking it's a cold virus with severity comparable to the flu.

Incorrect. Severity when averaged throughout all age groups is well beyond that of the average flu.

Though for children, it might be more straightforward to just call it a cold.

I wouldn't call it a cold, since it is a novel virus, but children are not severely affected by this virus and I agree with your point.

The flu is more dangerous for children, ...

I'd agree.

... so we should be treating Covid less seriously.

Disagree. This disease scales in severity with age, such that the 50+ category is at risk, and anyone 65+ is very vulnerable, and at the 80+ group it's basically double digit percent death rates per infection. Just because this is on average very mild for children and tolerable for youngish adults, we cannot accept walking viral vectors (schoolkids!) to roam throughout our neighborhoods spreading infection. This costs dollars in business disruption and lives throughout families and communities.

I don't know. Sometime this year in all likelihood.

Agreed. The flu can get nasty, and there has been likely some terrible outcomes just this week alone due to flu.
 
Close the schools now.
 
So how will trump look when all the schools close because they all have covid?
 
I envy those 116 kids. They will all be back in school and learning in a couple weeks.

Meanwhile kids in California will get pretend schooling. Maybe 1 hour of instruction and 2 hours of "individual study". Why even bother?
 
COVID is more infectious and more dangerous for their parents and grandparents than the flu, so we should be treating COVID more seriously and doing whatever we can to prevent children from becoming infected and killing their legal guardians.

Quarantine the grandparents, not the kids.
 
Correct. Biologically speaking it's a cold virus with severity comparable to the flu.

Though for children, it might be more straightforward to just call it a cold.



The flu is more dangerous for children, so we should be treating Covid less seriously.



I don't know. Sometime this year in all likelihood.

Yeah, kids take care of themselves especially when they get sick. These stupid statements from Trumpers about covid just make you look like a fool.
 
Even if we were absolutley sure this is true [we're not] it fails to address the fact that very few children live on their own.

Most children live with parents, grandparents or other adult caregivers.
The death or serious illness of a caregiver does harm to children.


Meanwhile, it's a helluva thing to want to gamble the lives of (at least) thousands of Americans on some **** we're not sure about.

They also found that children over the age of 10 as are effective at transmitting the virus as adults. That should be taken into account.
 
Ummm. No. Plus COVID (R[sub]0[/sub] 5.7) is much more infectious than the common flu (R[sub]0[/sub] 1.5).



Like we call smallpox just a rash?



We'll need citations for this claim. Empirical data and peer reviewed studies.

There is a quote for this debate.

Beware of False Knowledge;
it is more dangerous
than Ignorance!
George Benard Shaw
 
I envy those 116 kids. They will all be back in school and learning in a couple weeks.

Meanwhile kids in California will get pretend schooling. Maybe 1 hour of instruction and 2 hours of "individual study". Why even bother?

Our Local school district is going remote thru Oct.

My daughter , who has Elementary age children , told me that the remote class time instruction will be 9 am Until 3 pm just like in school instruction was.
 
I should have clarified that we live in Michigan and we are in Phase 4 of a 6 phase plan.

Phases 1 to 3 would only allow for remote classes.

Phase 4 allows each district to choose for themselves if they offer face to face instruction.

Whitmer's school plan: Students in masks, no visitors, spaced desks, cleaning

Whitmer’s has a 63 page plan that outlines ways for schools to protect teachers, students and everyone involved in returning to in-person learning.

If the district feels they can meet the safe start plan they may opt for in classroom instruction.

It is left up to each district to decide if they resources and can meet the guidelines in the plan.


Whitmer and Trump have different ideas about if and how to reopen schools. But in Michigan, plans are ultimately local. - mlive.com
 
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COVID-19 is caused by infection with a new coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2) and flu is caused by infection with a different coronavirus.
 
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