edit: this is not my pic! its a high school in georgia, sorry for the confusion.
This is why the USA will have 11 000 COVID 19 deaths a week for the foreseeable future
What's even more fucked is that case data is now being censored by the white house. Check today in Florida for example, nearly 100 more deaths than last week Tuesday but case count is down by thousands compared to last week Tuesday. You can't trust the government anymore, you have to figure out this shit for yourself.
They closed down testing sites for the weekend and til now bc of the hurricane. But yeah the White House is definitely telling states to mess with t he data. There has been no change in lifestyle or policy to make some of these southern states have a decrease in cases.
Thanks for this clarification, as a non American I don't know about these things
They've managed to mirror our climate policy lol, we could be proactive now, or we could just not care until we're really fucked.
Viral spread is inherently exponential* in nature.
So give it a bit and it'll be a full speed trainwreck.
* Or logistic, I see you pedants.
The MOOC model has been pushed for a while, as a means of dramatically scaling up class size and eliminating teachers as a workforce.
Now we're headed for a GDP crash and massive state-by-state financial shortfalls. The biggest budget item in most states is education.
I don't even know if they're going to try and privatize. They might simply gut education as an institution. Toss us straight into a New Dark Age, inside a generation.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Hope the Accelerationists are right.
A lot of teachers will tell you just how lib and useless many of their unions are, and they're probably one the most powerful types of union left here.
Can confirm. My union is enormous and extremely lib. Political action for them is making campaign contributions.
Why do they always have to have such brainrot? Like they most likely don't even get anything out of it, it does make no sense. :grumpy-lizard:
Decades of the government assisting Capital to undermine labor organizations has left whoever is left in a bad bad state (libified)
Many teachers' unions are legally barred from striking, so they could be disbanded if they try to strike. But some unions are attempting to sue the state to keep schools closed.
This is ridiculous, and whatever superintendent forced this schools to reopen should be held criminally liable.
legally barred from striking
wtf? what is meant to be the point of having a union at that point? like lets have a workers union but without one of the most vital actions a union can take uwu
Yeah it really pisses me off that “getting back to normal” is so important. This is a crisis, we should have been handling as such, but apparently that’s not even in the realm of possibility.
I wonder if "normal" will ever even be possible in the US again. Even when/if a vaccine comes out will enough people get it to make it useful? Or will the US be doomed to perpetually have flare ups of COVID for the rest of time?
I overheard a convo that “the vaccine is just a way to make money while the news covers up the real cure” so that does t give me much hope about covid actually going away, at least here.
Where have you read that? I've heard that several vaccines are making some headway, although it is a long process and it could still be a while before they're ready for the general population. But I've seen nothing to indicate that a vaccine in general is a pie in the sky idea though.
lol, yeah they are very misinformed. There aren't any coronavirus vaccines as there hasn't been a need in the past. But there absolutely are dozens of labs around the world currently working on a vaccine for this strain, and given how simple of a virus it is I have no reason to believe that they won't be able to eventually come up with one. Fauci thinks the US will have one by the end of the year, although idk how accurate that prediction is, it may be well into next year by the time we have one ready to roll out.
There actually was a vaccine being worked on in the past, it wasn't profitable and the project was disbanded iirc
Edit: for a disease tangential to covid
It could have been a vaccine for SARS, perhaps? It might have been disbanded once the pandemic died down after it mutated itself out of the spotlight. But who knows? I'm just spitballing here.
I'm not sure if this is the same thing as what you're talking about, but back in March I did see an article that postulated that we might have to basically do rolling shutdowns. As in different places go on lockdown, then gradually transition out of it, but if they start to see an increase in cases past a certain number then they go back into lockdown and start the cycle over again.
The longer you avoid taking actual measures, the longer it will take to go "back to normal".
Oh holy fucking shit WHAT THE FUCK
WHY THE FUCK DON'T THEY ALL HAVE MASKS EVEN
I mean, just add it to the dress code and send people home if they refuse
But no, of course they won't do that, why would they, this is hellworld
FUCK
Guess the state (hint it’s one where the governor fought against mask mandates)
it's early august. what kind of pervert northern hemisphere civilisation would send anybody to school in the middle of summer...
One that holds factory work culture conditioning and the rat race higher than human lives themselves.
That still seems late, hopefully you get longer/more breaks in the middle, then.
I wish. Fucking charter schools. Even though we are delayed in person instruction until Sept. 8, we are doing all trainings in person as well as multiple nights of Meet the Teacher in person.
Hey man, can't complain too much as an employed musician/teacher. Take it easy man.
Some schools shorten summer in favor of a longer break in the winter to prevent students from losing so much knowledge. You ever wonder why the first month of school is review of the last year?
This would seriously be the easiest solution, wouldn't it?
Teachers can be (are) punished for striking, but what the fuck can they do to the kids?
Just say they're protecting grandma and society. Done.
They will still blame teachers. Students here did a walkout a few years ago and our dumbass minister of education said it was organized entirely by the teachers.
My high school didn't have windows in any of the classrooms
There were exit doors to the outside in every one but opening it was the only way to see the outside. Couldn't let our young minds wonder
Holy shit, the USA is really trying to secure it's COVID cases high score isn't it?
i'm related to a couple teachers. they all went back yesterday. most of the students are staying home and doing online learning. but they're located in poor black and immigrant communities so some students don't have internet and others have parents who don't know how to use computers. some parents barely speak english on top of that. leading to another compounding issue.
so this week, the teachers are teaching the parents, in person, how to set up the streaming software and online learning.
just a disaster on top of a tragedy. and they are lucky enough not to have all the students back
Oh shit that's the Paulding County people. It was depressing seeing that they were going back while other schools have delayed a couple weeks, these kids are guinea pigs.
