COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron
jamestroll:
Like I said closing schools was bullsh**t.
But I understand why many liberals were concerned about kids getting sick with covid. People naturally want to watch out for kids. But the school closing hysteria was not backed by science!
Between teachers of Virginia, unemployment workers, DMV workers, etc.. the biggest shock to me of Virginia was it having ridiculous and horribly government employees. Wouldn't have expected it in a state like that.
https://www.dailypress.net/news/local-news/2022/08/i-didnt-really-learn-anything-covid-grads-face-college/
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Algebra got little of his attention, but his teachers kept giving him good grades amid a school-wide push for leniency.
“It was like school was optional. It wasn’t a mandatory thing,” said Hope, 18, of Milwaukee. “I feel like I didn’t really learn anything.”
learning math and science online.. lol.......... will not work.
Frodo:
It looks like we are slowly moving into Camp 5:
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jamestroll:
Quote from: Frodo on August 11, 2022, 10:42:50 PM
It looks like we are slowly moving into Camp 5:
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They are way behind the times. it is the saddest part of modern day humanity how we all over reacted to an over hyped virus.
emailking:
First lady Dr. Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19
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First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, her spokesperson said Tuesday.
“After testing negative for Covid-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” said Elizabeth Alexander, her communications director.
The first lady, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, is taking Paxlovid, Pfizer’s antiviral drug, per Alexander.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/jill-biden-covid/index.html
jamestroll:
Quote from: emailking on August 16, 2022, 08:57:30 AM
First lady Dr. Jill Biden tests positive for Covid-19
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First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms, her spokesperson said Tuesday.
“After testing negative for Covid-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening. She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive,” said Elizabeth Alexander, her communications director.
The first lady, who is double vaccinated and twice boosted, is taking Paxlovid, Pfizer’s antiviral drug, per Alexander.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/jill-biden-covid/index.html
lol I hope she recovers, but this is not really "news".
This is news:
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/study-reveals-washington-states-school-closure-policy-caused-learning-loss-life-long-harms
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Rather than advancing students a grade based on their actual gains in learning, in 2021 education officials essentially extended social promotion to all 1.1 million public school children.
Research shows many students suffered long-term learning loss and psychological and emotional harm due to the governor’s extended school closure policy
State test scores show public schools failed to adequately educate 70 percent of students in math and 52 percent of students in English.
Low-income students were most severely affected, with 8,700 fewer such students applying for state-funded college scholarships.
Researchers warned closing schools would inflict student harm “that could last a lifetime,” especially for low-income Hispanic and black students, increasing achievement gaps by 15-20 percent.
Washington public schools received operating funding at the highest levels in history during the COVID crisis, despite school closures.
In June of 2020, researchers at McKinsey and Company warned that two to nine percent of high school students would drop out, and that U.S. students may lose, on average, a year’s worth of full-time work in lifetime earnings as a result of COVID-relating learning losses.
Researchers at Brown University found a 23 percent drop in IQ for very young children caused by mandated mask and social distancing requirements.
The mandate policy that closed schools long term caused many children with special needs to regress and lose what they had learned in the past.
Isolating teenagers from social contact with peers for nearly two years increased their levels of anxiety and stress, problems which may persist with long-term consequences.
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