Coronavirus (San Francisco: school, legal, safety)

[2sleepy]

Originally Posted by ThinkingOutsideTheBox

They are hiring the "defunded" police to patrol the public schools schools to threaten and intimidate students who lower their masks on the playground. https://californiaglobe.com/section-...i7hy5kQnuc1W0A

OMG they aren't hiring defunded police, police were not 'defunded' in Sacramento, they got more money in their budget than they did last year. The school district contracts with the Sheriff's Dept to provide Safe Schools Officers, there are 5 safe school officers on duty at all times when schools are open, so quit making stuff up.

My grandson is in that district and no one is being intimidated but yes they do require masks, don't like it? Then your kid can enroll in distance learning. The Safe Schools Officer wouldn't have been there if the anti-vax, anti-mask nutters would shut up and keep their kid home if they don't agree with the school district's policies. By the way, Mariemont is one of the best schools in the district and is attended by mostly students from well educated upper middle class families. I doubt if many of them want to waste their time dealing with weirdo Karens who decide that they can force their crazy opinions on everyone else.

One more thing, when Karen wrote that letter to the school claiming it was illegal to force her cute little kiddo to wear a mask she cited "Americas Frontline Doctors" as her source, but she forgot to mention that they are a right wing political group run by Simone Gold who was arrested for her participation in the January 6th insurrection

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

OMG they aren't hiring defunded police, police were not 'defunded' in Sacramento, they got more money in their budget than they did last year. The school district contracts with the Sheriff's Dept to provide Safe Schools Officers, there are 5 safe school officers on duty at all times when schools are open, so quit making stuff up.

My grandson is in that district and no one is being intimidated but yes they do require masks, don't like it? Then your kid can enroll in distance learning. The Safe Schools Officer wouldn't have been there if the anti-vax, anti-mask nutters would shut up and keep their kid home if they don't agree with the school district's policies. By the way, Mariemont is one of the best schools in the district and is attended by mostly students from well educated upper middle class families. I doubt if many of them want to waste their time dealing with weirdo Karens who decide that they can force their crazy opinions on everyone else.

One more thing, when Karen wrote that letter to the school claiming it was illegal to force her cute little kiddo to wear a mask she cited "Americas Frontline Doctors" as her source, but she forgot to mention that they are a right wing political group run by Simone Gold who was arrested for her participation in the January 6th insurrection

*cough* Well ... I think that’s a wrap on that issue ...

[TheseGoTo11]

Originally Posted by sav858

I don't know why this person is the director of the CDC, she seems awful.

She also said she wouldn't send her kid to summer camp because cases are where they were last year, ignoring that positive test rates are 2% now vs. 20% then. Additionally, she told Michigan to shut down right before their cases dropped dramatically without shutting down.

This is the problem with people who always want to defer to "experts", they give them credit for things they're not expert in. She's a doctor who can treat patients, not a public health data analyst with any credibility making forecasts.

[ThinkingOutsideTheBox]

Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

She also said she wouldn't send her kid to summer camp because cases are where they were last year, ignoring that positive test rates are 2% now vs. 20% then. Additionally, she told Michigan to shut down right before their cases dropped dramatically without shutting down.

This is the problem with people who always want to defer to "experts", they give them credit for things they're not expert in. She's a doctor who can treat patients, not a public health data analyst with any credibility making forecasts.

Wouldn't want her for my doc. She's more of a political hack than anything and way too theatrical. A month ago, she said she had a sense of impeding doom (in a teary voice) even when Covid cases were in freefall.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

She also said she wouldn't send her kid to summer camp because cases are where they were last year, ignoring that positive test rates are 2% now vs. 20% then. Additionally, she told Michigan to shut down right before their cases dropped dramatically without shutting down.

This is the problem with people who always want to defer to "experts", they give them credit for things they're not expert in. She's a doctor who can treat patients, not a public health data analyst with any credibility making forecasts.

And the CDC just said kids can go mask free at outdoor summer camps too. I feel bad for her kid, assuming she actually keeps him away like she says she is. The more she cry’s wolf the more people will disregard the CDC. I hope Biden gets rid of her.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by 2sleepy

My grandson is in that district and no one is being intimidated but yes they do require masks, don't like it? Then your kid can enroll in distance learning.

It's not like it's a secret that masks are required on campuses. The types of people in that article have weaponized their kids to use in their personal proxy war against school covid policies. I've seen it happening since we returned to in-person around mid-fall. What's sad is how embarrassing it is to their kids. In the past couple months, there's a been a few parents trying to make a political statement while students are being checked in to school. More than once I've had to ask them to find a different venue. Also, the protocols for reopening aren't changing in our district for summer session, so I know I'll have a whole new crop of these people screaming about June 15th in front of a bunch of kids.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by sav858

Children should keep masking up, CDC director says, even as some experts question the need

Young children should continue to wear face masks, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in congressional testimony on Wednesday, citing studies she says demonstrate that grade-school-age children can contract and spread the coronavirus.

A number of scientists point to research, however, that contradicts Walensky’s assertions. “What Rochelle Walensky said this morning is incorrect,” Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told Yahoo News. “Children are not vectors.”

Just as Walensky was testifying on Capitol Hill before the House Appropriations Committee (she was there to explain her agency’s proposed budget, but faced many pandemic-related questions), Gandhi co-wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that described the risk of a child contracting the coronavirus from an infected person as .00007 percent. Outdoors, Gandhi and her co-authors found, the risk was a thousand times less than that, which is to say effectively nonexistent.


I don't know why this person is the director of the CDC, she seems awful.

As an agency, if you're writing policy and guidelines on matters where there is no consensus (as evidenced above by two competing studies' conclusions), it's to be expected that the authors will err on the side of caution.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by joosoon

As an agency, if you're writing policy and guidelines on matters where there is no consensus (as evidenced above by two competing studies' conclusions), it's to be expected that the authors will err on the side of caution.

Sure but at this point in the pandemic with all the real world data out there it still seems overly cautious and unnecessary.

[V8 Vega]

They are giving it all they got to keep the hysteria going as long as possible.

[fluffythewondercat]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

They are giving it all they got to keep the hysteria going as long as possible.

It's misdirection. "Look here, not over there."