CDC published a study showing nearly zero transmission even with 40% countywide positivity rates... and is now going to Cuomo/Newsom things up with color-coded zones.
Six feet has zero science but is great for closing schools.
As expected. It's a school closure plan, not a school opening plan. Union bosses call the tune now.
Tomorrow the CDC is going to issue an unscientific plan dictated by the White House based on political considerations that, if followed, will almost certainly result in MORE senseless school closures.
Reminder: States and school districts don't have to pay any attention to it.
The White House is likely assuming that the same docs and scientists who stood by while children suffered for political reasons for a year aren't about to change now. So whatever you want, Randi. Let's go shake the tree for another hundred billion tax dollars.
Imagine having the media so in the bag that you can force the same CDC that just published multiple studies showing minimal school transmission with very high community incidence to put out a color-coded community-incidence-based schools framework? It's good to be a Democrat.
Reminder: The CDC never called for any school closures in the first place. It was all irrational panic and follow-the-ignorant leader.
But now the CDC is an appendage of the union-owned White House. Science is irrelevant.
Oh well.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Reminder: with flu and RSV down ~98% and replaced by COVID, which is far less dangerous to children, we are in literally the mildest respiratory illness season for children in recorded history.
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Science shows us schools are low-risk settings everywhere in the world, with or without mitigation and regardless of community transmission. But you're not doing science, are you?
There is zero science behind 6 feet. An arbitrary doubling of WWO's 1 meter, and overwhelmingly counterindicated in the school context, where its principal effect is sitting kids home.
Your own Wisconsin study has zero distancing within classes.