Schools are contagion zones: Study
A new study shows that our schools are Covid contagion zones.
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dmdiem 08:38 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
*surprised pikachu*
Ephraim 09:57 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
What does Homer Simpson say? Oh yeah…. DOH!
walkerp 15:10 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
I’m starting to think it is only a question of when not if the school are going to close again here.
Bill Binns 18:26 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
Well, it’s illegal to leave your home after 8pm “to save lives” but everybody’s children are packed into busses every morning 88 at a time to brought together in the same buildings all day to return to those family bubbles at night. This all makes perfect sense. It’s just good science.
That reminds me, we are nearing the one year anniversary of the government telling us that masks do nothing to stop the spread of Covid and every time you put one on a hero nurse dies.
Kevin 18:34 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
Bill Binns
The reason health officials did not recommend masks in the early stages of the pandemic was because procedure masks, on their own, did not prevent the person wearing them getting sick.
Later research showed that if a sick person wore a mask, that person was less likely to transmit the virus to others.
In other words: you’re wearing a mask to protect others in case you’re sick. You’re not wearing a mask to protect yourself.
dhomas 19:24 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
In addition to what Kevin said, at the beginning of the pandemic, regular folks hording medical-grade masks meant medical staff might not have access to them since there was a severe shortage of them.
Bill Binns 20:07 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
I don’t believe that there was a scientific discovery in 2020 that masks reduce the transmission of communicable diseases. There are plenty of photos of the average Joe wearing them during the last global pandemic 100 years ago. Only a politician could argue that masks are useless and then, barely a month later when confronted with the fact that they are of course effective, simply change the name to “cloth face covering” and require them to be worn by everyone.
Kevin 21:40 on 2021-01-12 Permalink
@Bill Binns
Here’s a meta-analysis published in The Lancet indicating your belief is wrong. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext
david37 04:49 on 2021-01-13 Permalink
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but that article is from June, and the Lancet and others have moved way forward (didn’t they retract a bunch of Covid articles in the summer?) so that a 7 month old article isn’t a great exclamation point. I think Bill’s point is that it was crazy dumb to tell people not to wear masks like they were doing for a month or two.