Oh, so we should double our teacher workforce and classroom space between now and next month?
And then double them again?
Oh, so we should double our teacher workforce and classroom space between now and next month?
And then double them again?
Because they’re realizing that it’s all part of the package of reopening. If you don’t deal with the kids, can’t get parents back in the office.
What’s being done in Denmark and Finland requires an engaged and proactive government. We don’t have that here. Even the best of our state governors are reactive. Also, in the US, money simply does not get spent for quality of life. Business first and foremost. People are a way distant second.
You rank them high. They’re much further down the list, after equipment, depreciation, dividends, expendable supplies, etc.
Chrystia Freeland routinely notes that Americans would like to believe they live in Sweden but actually live in Russia. With Trump this aspect of the American reality distortion field became explicit. To do that they would have to pay more taxes and the wealth disparities would have to narrow. Denmark and Finland have very high tax rates, but because their governments are largely skillful in procurement and production of public goods and services, it’s actually cheaper than in the US where all costs are externalized. And their populations are generally happier.
Bars and restaurants seem like obviously terrible vectors for transmission, but I do wonder if daycare is going to end up on the list of recently reopened things that a very bad idea right now.
It blows my mind that public officials and health authorities are giving us basically zero information on how all these new cases got sick. I know they can’t contact trace every new patient, but they sure as heck ought to be able to figure out the types of activities that are leading to this explosion.
Don’t forget the executive perks like a Gulfstream V or “personal assistant”.
I’ve been on Helsinki’s trolleys and the metro in St. Petersburg. As a New Yorker I can assure you it was the St. Petersburg metro that felt more like home.
So that’s why Trump loves Putin.
I’ve been to New York, and I’ve been to Moscow. I’ll take Moscow’s metro over the New York subway every time.
Well except he’s never been on either the subway in NYC or the metro in St. Petersburg.
Too complex to tie things together unless the person has zero contacts outside of a specific event. If you’ve gone grocery shopping and to the daycare and to pick up food from a restaurant, which one do you blame…
I’ve never been to Moscow but I’m sure you’re right. St. Petersburg was a mix. One of the cars I sat in looked like it might have been entered into service in 1958, and the underground generally had that aged and dirty look. But it was efficient, and some of the cars in some of the branch lines were newer and in better condition.
I have to disagree. You don’t need to nail down where each transmission actually occurred. You can simply make every person getting tested answer a survey of the activities they have participated in over the last 2-3 weeks. It would be tremendously beneficial to know, for instance, whether 50% of new cases have been going to bars, whether 10% have been going to Trump rallies, and whether 75% have been going to church.
??? The Helsinki metro is fairly new and expanding. The trams in Helsinki are mostly new Skoda ForCity 15 T models.
The Helsinki metro is very quiet and safe.
All valid, except of course teachers under 35 are not at personal risk if they don’t have a special vulnerability.
I suspect that the most pragmatic way to approach this, in the end, isn’t to grapple with the numerous, scientifically murky risk factors but to look at what other countries are doing and imitate the one that is working best.
I love Helsinki. What a livable city. Now if only my grandparents had taught me to speak Finnish.
I can’t speak to the St. Petersburg metro (although I briefly visited the city when it was still Leningrad), but the Moscow metro was massive, clean, reliable, and efficient when I was there in both the late-Soviet era and during the mid-Yeltsin era. I expect that Putin has made a point of keeping it in good order, as it was a matter of Soviet pride.
Helsinki metro (Aalto University stop).