The replies to my tweet about DeSantis' education policy are insane.
Did you know that informing parents that their child is failing and requiring them to explicitly acknowledge that and explicitly select remote learning is the same as <checks notes> eugenics?
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Thousands of children have fallen through the cracks across the country. They have never logged in ONCE for remote learning. We've gone from required schooling to not caring at all whether children are learning.
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This is completely crazy and it's being done in the name of VIRTUE, of all things!
This is all because the CDC, Fauci, and the media refuse to tell you that children have less risk of dying from COVID than from flu. That the risk is massively age-stratified.
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The "net" is the difference between today's total deaths and yesterday's total deaths, but each day's total is also the sum of additions and removals on that date.
For example, if 2 new deaths are reported on a date, that could be because 3 were added and 1 was removed
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Peaks are 7/30-31 (234) & 8/4 (237); the 7-day moving average peak is 8/5 (226).
The plateau at the peak between 7/25 and 8/7 has been stable since August 27.
The CDC held a press briefing on 11/19, and it's fairly stunning to see the misinformation they're propagating. Remember this when someone wants to hold the CDC up as a reliable source:
"THERE IS SIMPLY NO MORE IMPORTANT TIME THAN NOW FOR EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN TO RE-DOUBLE OUR EFFORTS TO WATCH OUR DISTANCE, WASH OUR HANDS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY WEAR A MASK. MORE AND MORE SCIENTIFIC DATA IS SHOWING THAT MASKS CAN PROVIDE SOME PROTECTION TO THE WEARER."
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Just look at the over-the-top language... "no more important time," "re-double our efforts," "more and more scientific data." There is nothing precise here until they say masks CAN provide protection. "More and more" data that they CAN?
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