There i agree with you, that sort of activity data does have uses. Was only speaking to being able to pinpoint the exact transmission source. With how widespread this is, any time you or someone in your home steps out, that’s a possible transmission.
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We are way, way beyond the point where we can simply imitate other countries in how we conduct our daily activities. Things that are perfectly feasible with minuscule rates of infection are terrible risks when even 1-2% of the population is infected.
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Sorry, I don’t know what you mean. The infection rate in NY is very low at this point.
Not true. Lower risk of death, yes. But there are all sorts of complications with this virus, including lung and kidney damage.
So picking and choosing who has to take the risk of lifetime disabilities is not a great choice.
And add to that that younger people are less likely to be regularly at the doctor, so many of them do have complicating health factors that they aren’t aware of yet because the condition hasn’t progressed to a point where it’s obvious that there’s something wrong.
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Beautiful.
NYC tried hard with the new Q line and it’s much spiffier than the older lines but generally the subway is exhibit A in the case of this country’s attitude toward public transportation. Amtrak is exhibit B.
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I mean that when the virus is spreading seemingly without much effective control, as it is right now in much of the country, the current precautions that prevent its recurrence in countries that have more or less controlled it will not make activities safe here. There is no example of a country that has safely reopened schools in the middle of an outbreak similar to what we are currently going through. Sneeze guards don’t mean shit when half the people in the store are infected.
And only 5 kopecks a ride back in the day!
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It would also be helpful to have detailed contact tracing data, even if it’s necessarily for sampling purposes more than eradication. Take 100 new cases daily in Dallas County and really figure out how they got it and how they spread it to anybody else. But nobody seems to be doing anything like that, so we just blunder forward with either shutting everything down or declaring that we’re all on our own.
ETA: We’re reshaping our lives and our economy based on anecdotes because nobody in charge seems to give a damn about actual data.
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Any pandemic can be dealt with by public heath measures, but the costs go up if you fritter away your window of opportunity. We are only beginning to appreciate what an expensive mistake Trump has been for our country and the world.
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Two other big factors here: more centralized control and funding. For example, no local school districts with the level of autonomy to make dumb decisions that we have in the States, plus schools getting the same funding regardless of whether they are urban, suburban or rural.
Biggest weaknesses in the US schooling system.
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I am a teacher. There is just no feasible way to safeguard the spread of this virus and its effects in schools. Two-thirds of my school’s population has been hit hardest from this virus, namely Black and Hispanic populations. Many of these kids live in multi-generational households. Some of my colleagues are immune-compromised and live with family members who are the same.
The heightened avenues of risk, even with an alternative class rotation that cuts a class of 28 to half that population per period, practically guarantees a rapid viral spread. Every class meets for an hour. Every student circulates in every part of the building with each class a different mix of students. There is no potentially positive outcome by using old thinking to meet this crisis with feigned normalcy.
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Old thinking. That’s the problem all down the line.
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Wouldn’t disagree. But all of that takes a lot of money to pull off properly, and our billionaires need their tax breaks.
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You know what else our billionaires need? Workers and customers. They’re very bad about identifying their own economic interests.
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Ain’t that the truth. Never figured out why they don’t seem to get that they would be even wealthier with a healthy and well-educated population to staff their businesses and purchase goods and services.
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That’s pretty much non-distanced distancing there in that photo and no one is wearing a mask. If you aren’t stuffing your pie hole or quaffing a beverage, leave the mask on!
I see what you did there.
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Weekly testing would actually go a long way towards making schools safe to open. But of course, nobody seems to be preparing for anything like that, and our capacity to test is woefully inadequate already.
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Can anyone explain to me why people feel they just cannot live unless they go to a restaurant or bar like right now! They can’t wait maybe until next year?
I get not wanting to cook but you can get takeout -
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I’ll that the CTA over the NY subway. What we all deserve is theD.C. Metro. Your tax dollars provide the best.
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