09-07-2020, 12:31 PM
Just another example of how F'ed up Trump's Covid task force is . . .
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-said-to-keep-sick-kids-on-campus-emails-reveal-the-messy-reality/ar-BB18MjUR?ocid=ientp
Basically, send your healthy kids to college to get sick. But, once they're sick, don't send them home.
They acknowledge sending the sick students home can cause a surge, but don't acknowledge that sending them to college for in person classroom instruction instead of virtually is causing a surge on campuses across the nation.
Locally, we are seeing much fewer cases of Covid compared to July and August. The public schools opened with virtual classes, but will transition to both virtual and in person classes by the end of September. The one school district that I know opened for traditional classes, a private Christian school, shut down in person classes because of a Covid outbreak. Who could have seen that coming? Certainly not the White House coronavirus task force.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-said-to-keep-sick-kids-on-campus-emails-reveal-the-messy-reality/ar-BB18MjUR?ocid=ientp
Quote:Last Monday, top officials on the White House coronavirus task force issued an urgent warning to governors across the country: Stop sending your COVID-infected college students home to their parents or risk another nationwide surge, just like the one that overwhelmed the South this summer.
Basically, send your healthy kids to college to get sick. But, once they're sick, don't send them home.
They acknowledge sending the sick students home can cause a surge, but don't acknowledge that sending them to college for in person classroom instruction instead of virtually is causing a surge on campuses across the nation.
Locally, we are seeing much fewer cases of Covid compared to July and August. The public schools opened with virtual classes, but will transition to both virtual and in person classes by the end of September. The one school district that I know opened for traditional classes, a private Christian school, shut down in person classes because of a Covid outbreak. Who could have seen that coming? Certainly not the White House coronavirus task force.
