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Back into Lockdown We Go

It's starting to go back up to double digits per week in my GTA region, but nobody I know has it yet. My kid coughed a couple times over the weekend though so now she has to wait 2 weeks or until a negative test result before she can go back to school.
 
Casper said:
That actually applies to young children, teens on the other hand can be super spreaders. This is not going to end well, some of us are getting tired of saying I told you so.....
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Again, there's science that says teens are "super spreaders?"
 
Rawley said:
Again, there's science that says teens are "super spreaders?"
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I would think that is more based on social behaviours than biological differences.
 
Helix said:
reopening the schools and bars before there's an effective vaccine approaches suicidally idiotic.
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Like Dean Wormer said,"Being fat ,stupid and drunk is no way to go through life"
 
Carjosse said:
Looks like Montreal is going back into lockdown because people can't follow basic rules. Hopefully they actually enforce the restrictions.

Article here.

The amount of people I have seen breaking rules is just ridiculous. People don't seem to understand you have to actually wear a mask over your face for it to work and huddling together in large groups in the park is not social distancing just because it is outside.
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COVID isn't done culling the herd everywhere yet.

But, isn't this Trudeau's fault?
 
Rawley said:
Of course they do. And they have an extremely low infection rate. Even lower hospitalization rate. And a virtually non-existent death rate.
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I got over COVID, so I must have a low death rate? Now, pull my finger... :giggle:
 
grip said:
I got my mail-in ballot today and it's got a tear-off flap and useless glue-shut function. It's designed to fail. I see a big catastrophe coming.
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yeah, my primary absentee ballot looked like it was rigged to encourage rejection, too. i expected it. rather than just voting for the candidate that you wanted, there was this complex multi-page code system. red states don't like it when people can vote easily.
 
Helix said:
yeah, my primary absentee ballot looked like it was rigged to encourage rejection, too. i expected it. rather than just voting for the candidate that you wanted, there was this complex multi-page code system. red states don't like it when people can vote easily.
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And my state requires you to sign the envelope. Talk about encouraging fraud.
 
Rawley said:
??? The extremely low infection rate, lower hospitalization rate, and a virtually non-existent death rate for children is well documented. Fewer than 100 have died

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Yet, covid is spreading like wildfire among school children. Check your sources.

www.ucsf.edu

To Stop COVID-19 Spread in Schools, Start with Local Data and Do the Math

A new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals shows that public data and a simple equation may be all that is required to estimate the number of students infected with COVID-19 who might be in a classroom.
www.ucsf.edu www.ucsf.edu

www.reuters.com

As U.S. schools reopen, concerns grow that kids spread coronavirus

U.S. students are returning to school in person and online in the middle of a pandemic, and the stakes for educators and families are rising in the face of emerging research that shows children could be a risk for spreading the new coronavirus.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
 
grip said:
Yet, covid is spreading like wildfire among school children. Check your sources.

www.ucsf.edu

To Stop COVID-19 Spread in Schools, Start with Local Data and Do the Math

A new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals shows that public data and a simple equation may be all that is required to estimate the number of students infected with COVID-19 who might be in a classroom.
www.ucsf.edu www.ucsf.edu

www.reuters.com

As U.S. schools reopen, concerns grow that kids spread coronavirus

U.S. students are returning to school in person and online in the middle of a pandemic, and the stakes for educators and families are rising in the face of emerging research that shows children could be a risk for spreading the new coronavirus.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
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You should check yours, they were predictions of what might happen when schools reopen. There has been no spike in rates among kids since schools have reopened
 
Chomsky said:
You think you got problems? How would you like to one of the Americans living below the Mason-Dixon? With no national healthcare? Yeah ...
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okay C, I'll bite .. what does that have to do with anything ? -shrug-
 
Helix said:
reopening the schools and bars before there's an effective vaccine approaches suicidally idiotic.
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Really ? It has a 99 % survival rate !
shutdowns appear motivated only by politics.
 
grip said:
Common sense is often more accurate than scientific guesses.
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? Wait... science prevails unless it's something you don't want to hear ?
then common sense prevails ?
Politics .. that's all it is.
 
Helix said:
i have some serious skin in the school game, and i'm very pissed off about what those in power in my state are doing. i won't soon forget at the ballot box.
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the biggest reason for the fear mongering is politics.... and it works with some.
 
Thom Paine said:
? Wait... science prevails unless it's something you don't want to hear ?
then common sense prevails ?
Politics .. that's all it is.
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Science is so skewed with political bias nowadays, who knows?
 
Rawley said:
You should check yours, they were predictions of what might happen when schools reopen. There has been no spike in rates among kids since schools have reopened
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According to who,,,,,,,, Fox News?
 
TheDoctorWasIn said:
That's the point. Children rarely show any symptoms from having COVID. Almost none of them get seriously sick, and even fewer die.

That does not mean they are not communicable.
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Which is why I was asking for the science on spreading.
 
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