10-31-2020, 06:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2020, 06:05 AM by OutsiderFan.)
It sounds absurd, but public health agencies should pool their resources to do some national advertising campaigns that feature the people in ICUs. Maybe even set up some live cams of them on a website called Covidisreal.com or AvoidCovid.com so people can see why they don't want to get it.
Wear a mask. Keep distance. Avoid crowds without good ventilation.
As for the El Pais interactive infographics, they are fantastic. Basically shows if buildings can replicate the air treatment airplanes now have and everyone wears a mask, we should be able to get kids in classrooms. The problem is most schools don't have great ventilation.
Was talking with my aunt who is a former teacher, and my cousin who is now a teacher at Bellarmine about this. Public schools don't have adequate ventilation. Privates like Bellarmine might. Speaking of Bellarmine, they are apparently trying to have teachers instruct 50% of their class in person and 50% from home at same time. Of course, this puts strain on bandwidth, with several teachers doing video streaming on the same connection, so the school must ramp up Wifi networks as well.
But even if they can pull it off, by spending thousands of dollars public schools don't have, to upgrade HVAC and bandwidth, good luck keeping the 50% at home engaged. My aunt said some of her current teacher friends doing all remote from their own homes, say some kids don't turn on their cameras for Zoom classes so teachers have no idea what they are doing.
This pandemic must be brought under control, so the real public health leaders must find a way to get around the indifferent federal government response. This is especially the case when the pandemic is peaking at a time there is a lame duck POTUS who is so manifestly Evil, he will want as many Americans infected and dying as possible to punish them for his election defeat.
How sad is it that nobody on this board can make any credible argument refuting my last sentence. We all have the receipts to prove it is an unassailable reality.
Wear a mask. Keep distance. Avoid crowds without good ventilation.
As for the El Pais interactive infographics, they are fantastic. Basically shows if buildings can replicate the air treatment airplanes now have and everyone wears a mask, we should be able to get kids in classrooms. The problem is most schools don't have great ventilation.
Was talking with my aunt who is a former teacher, and my cousin who is now a teacher at Bellarmine about this. Public schools don't have adequate ventilation. Privates like Bellarmine might. Speaking of Bellarmine, they are apparently trying to have teachers instruct 50% of their class in person and 50% from home at same time. Of course, this puts strain on bandwidth, with several teachers doing video streaming on the same connection, so the school must ramp up Wifi networks as well.
But even if they can pull it off, by spending thousands of dollars public schools don't have, to upgrade HVAC and bandwidth, good luck keeping the 50% at home engaged. My aunt said some of her current teacher friends doing all remote from their own homes, say some kids don't turn on their cameras for Zoom classes so teachers have no idea what they are doing.
This pandemic must be brought under control, so the real public health leaders must find a way to get around the indifferent federal government response. This is especially the case when the pandemic is peaking at a time there is a lame duck POTUS who is so manifestly Evil, he will want as many Americans infected and dying as possible to punish them for his election defeat.
How sad is it that nobody on this board can make any credible argument refuting my last sentence. We all have the receipts to prove it is an unassailable reality.