We need to pay attention to this. Most of the cases in Italy are people under 50 + children; the B117 variant is being spread in schools there. nytimes.com/2021/03/14/wor…
You might also want to listen to this. In it he talks about an astounding undercounting of pediatric COVID cases. Short version: Mississippi reported just under 9000 cases of COVID, but serological testing later revealed it to be over 100K.
In this interview, Dr. Osterholm says the B117 outbreaks in Minnesota are being driven by schools. cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podca…
Our community is still experiencing a severe outbreak, and in 2 weeks schools are going back to 5 days/week, basically without distancing b/c that's only possible during hybrid learning. I'm very worried about what will happen.
The kids will be removing their masks daily, in close proximity to each other, in order to eat. They've said ventilation is part of this plan but I've yet to see any details from the board on that. I'm scared for our community.
I urge them all to put on their acting caps, get with some costume people, and make it as entertaining as possible. Or, if allowed by rules, invite celebs in for dramatic readings.
Then, at every break, meet with the press and highlight all the things that are desperately needed and are being unnecessarily delayed.
Being props and photographs to the readings. Maybe an enormous poster showing mobile morgues with text that says “I’d rather be helping Americans in need but Republicans are making us do this instead.”
If you want to have an idea of how your behavior's being tracked, purposely search for something to buy that's unusual (to you, that is), then watch it follow you around for a good long time.
As many have commented, and this is an even better idea: talk about it. Pick a random thing you have no use for and no plans on buying, write it down on a piece of paper, show it to your partner/housemates, and talk incessantly about it for 15 minutes. Then see what happens.
For those of you noticing ads after lingering in a store department, or when you’re at the checkout counter: lifehacker.com/how-retail-sto…
Some perspective if you’re in an area where everything’s open and you’re wondering if you’re crazy for being cautious and worried.
We seem have boiling frog syndrome when it comes to COVID. There’s a lot of focus on downward trends, w/ little attention given to the fact that our levels are worse than countries instituting much stricter measures...
or that our current levels have merely gone from mind-blowingly horrible to the slightly less mind-blowingly horrible levels of early fall.
FYI, these aren’t super spy James Bond-type operations. They’re commercially available to anyone. If you’re receiving marketing emails, your receiving these pixels with them. bbc.com/news/amp/techn…
The good news: it’s much more regulated than social media.
It would be very useful to have an explanation from public health officials of differing viewpoints as to how they’ve arrived at the conclusion that COVID does or doesn’t spread in schools. For example, has lack of data been equated with “there’s no data to suggest”?
There are a good many countries that accept school spread as a fact and craft their policies accordingly. Is it because they’re gathering more data? (ie, testing symptomatic children, testing MORE children?)
Anyone else wondering about the Capitol being breached while Trump is still on stage, and he isn’t yanked off and taken to a secure location immediately?
What about Pence being taken to a secure location, but in the accounts of what was happening with Trump at that same time, no mention of him also being in a secure location? And he’s making phone calls to Tuberville, not to security personnel?
1:00 pm: protestors storm the outer barricade of the Capitol.