“Not going backwards” is “good news” (Seattle: home, schools)

[NJguy1986]

So the whole state is PAUSED on opening up, but we’re supposed to feel good because “no regions can go backwards”

First off, I do NOT believe or trust that Inslee won’t move the state backwards again into a lockdown if the “science” tells him

Secondly, are we supposed to be ‘grateful’ to be at 25%? After staying at 0%-25% for the past year now?

And before you say “the lockdowns have worked” there are numerous other states that have not locked down or not as drastically and are doing well economically, with their citizen’s mental health, and with combating the virus

[Arcos]

It’s extremely difficult to compare between states with different demographics, especially if you have different metrics of what ‘combating the virus’ means. Like, was their per capita infection and/or death rate better than WA? Or is their rate currently going down the same as us, but more deaths/illnesses occurred? Or did they peak at a different time? Or would it have been even worse here without the restrictions? And was it in cities or elsewhere? How crowded are those places? What was their compliance with safety measures?
Ultimately you do the best you can with the value judgements you made, and there’s just a lot of uncertainty... NO ONE can truly know the effect of each particular regulation.

[flyingsaucermom]

My mental health is in the dogs this week. The state is 47th for school reopening. I discovered that I'm in a minority for believing that schools are safe even just for hybrid learning. Everyone out of state gets to send their kids to school, but I can't. I'm so demoralized.

[rjshae]

Originally Posted by NJguy1986

Secondly, are we supposed to be ‘grateful’ to be at 25%? After staying at 0%-25% for the past year now?

What does gratitude have to do with anything? This is about managing the death rate.

[bergun]

First, COVID-19 is real... Thanks to China!! I don’t doubt the science either, but since COVID is now part of our lives for years to come, we better learn how to live with it, function within it and get back to our daily lives.

Our people and the regional/national economies cannot survive too much more of this lockdown or semi-lock downs without this doing serious long term damage to every aspects of our lives. All my kids are grown, but I do worry about the kids not being in school, which is one of the long term effects I’m truly concerned with.

Since the Global Economy is reality, many of kids will not be able to compete, successfully, within it. Especially children from the lower end of the working-class. No amount of politically correct talk or sugar coating this with more fake and useless “reimagining” solutions. Seriously, what “reimagining” solutions, in the last 10 years has ever work? Has reimagining the homeless, drug, crime, police and the social justice/injustice problems ever worked?? Honestly, the term “reimagining” is code for doing nothing and kicking the can further down the street. I’m shocked that people don’t see this.

I was a first responder for the first year of this pandemic before retiring and so were thousands of more people from doctors and nurses to truck drivers and store clerks in the Seattle area. If they can step up to the plate and do their part in protecting and serving our communities, why can’t the teachers, at all grade levels, do their part? I know that the Teacher’s Union is very powerful, but our elected officials need to do what is right for the kids and forget, for at least the moment, the money that the Teacher’s Union doles out to their campaigns and other “special project,” which is code for lining the pockets of our elected officials with laundered money.

[87112]

Teachers are in it for the free ride of a lifetime. I think the goal is 2 years or more of staying home at full pay. With spring around the corner I highly doubt working is on their minds.

[Btmfedr]

I agree it is now a matter of which groups don’t want the economy to open.

The public teacher union is a perfect example. Why would they want to go back to work?

Also, they have a monopoly. A common characteristic of a monopoly is they take much better care of themselves($) rather than their customers(students).

[flyingsaucermom]

I'm noticing more of my sons' teachers doing "asynchronous" lessons on Fridays... good indication that they're leaving town for the weekend...

Maybe if the tech workers were sent back into the office their teacher wives would no longer have an incentive to stay home and plan extended weekends skiing.

[87112]

Gov Inslee sure will pound small business into the ground while completely silent on school closures, riots, looting. Another fine democratic leader. Keep voting blue WA.

[flyingsaucermom]

Originally Posted by 87112

Gov Inslee sure will pound small business into the ground while completely silent on school closures, riots, looting. Another fine democratic leader. Keep voting blue WA.

He's not quiet on schools. He's been traveling the state, visiting classrooms and hosted a discussion about a week ago in a campaign/plead to other districts that it's time to get the kids back in school.

But regardless it's still his fault for putting the fear of God in everyone and shutting us down for as long as he did. An administrator for one of the northern districts even said that the longer this goes on the more comfortable teachers and staff are going to be with continuing remote education.

What comes around, goes around... and it all goes back to Inslee. I hope he suffers massively for this. I have so much anger it's making me physically unwell.