Torero_dad
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It was pretty clear why.
Any Scholarship Recipients Rethinking This Year?
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JBfortunecookie1
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As the son of a Chinese immigrant mother, I thought it was a comical name for it.
Another view, from across the pond: Dozens of European countries are open and have ensured that their children go back to school, with sensible precautions in place, including these countries that all have medical experts and in many cases medical institutes that are on a par with our own.
A short list, astonishing in its uniformity of approach - don't panic, take wise precautions, but get the kids back in school:
- Norway, Denmark: schools are open; students had already returned to school in April
- Sweden: schools never closed
- Finland: reopened the schools after infection rates for Finnish schoolchildren were observed to be the same as infection rates for Swedish children
- Germany: most of the 16 German states are open; one temporarily closed its schools but expects to re-open
- France: all schools were opened again after the summer holidays in July (~1/3d of schools had already opened by 5/18, prior to the holiday break)
- Poland: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
- Russia: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
What do these countries - which produced Pasteur, Curie, Mendel, Krebs, et al. - know that we don't?
Or is it that we actually know better, and all our European cousins are headed for the Apocalypse?
No disrespect intended whatsoever in asking, What's wrong with this picture?
A short list, astonishing in its uniformity of approach - don't panic, take wise precautions, but get the kids back in school:
- Norway, Denmark: schools are open; students had already returned to school in April
- Sweden: schools never closed
- Finland: reopened the schools after infection rates for Finnish schoolchildren were observed to be the same as infection rates for Swedish children
- Germany: most of the 16 German states are open; one temporarily closed its schools but expects to re-open
- France: all schools were opened again after the summer holidays in July (~1/3d of schools had already opened by 5/18, prior to the holiday break)
- Poland: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
- Russia: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
What do these countries - which produced Pasteur, Curie, Mendel, Krebs, et al. - know that we don't?
Or is it that we actually know better, and all our European cousins are headed for the Apocalypse?
No disrespect intended whatsoever in asking, What's wrong with this picture?
NJDadofDSUSMA2024Hopeful
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Consistent with my own uncertain mind on this, I post the two below articles with very interesting facts, as I’m literally on the flight to drop DS at school/ROTC as a freshman. The first argues to accept some risk in life and protect the most vulnerable (don’t gloss over that point). The second is concerning and has the most data of any “long-term Covid issues” article that I’ve seen.
what bothers me the most about this crisis is it highlights that partisanship, for-profit And generally biased media, plus (sorry) a president who is fairly dumb, an imprecise communicator and who unequivocally downplayed this from the start, has resulted in a complete lack of data-driven discussion. Public policy decisions are trade offs. 40k people per year would be saved (and many more serious injuries) if we drove 25mph. But we don’t do that as we accept some risk as a society.
www.franklintempleton.com
https://apple.news/A7CruWe7jR5atBUnp2CKrjA
what bothers me the most about this crisis is it highlights that partisanship, for-profit And generally biased media, plus (sorry) a president who is fairly dumb, an imprecise communicator and who unequivocally downplayed this from the start, has resulted in a complete lack of data-driven discussion. Public policy decisions are trade offs. 40k people per year would be saved (and many more serious injuries) if we drove 25mph. But we don’t do that as we accept some risk as a society.