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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 17:19:45 GMT -5
So our current situation. We have not had a single Covid infection traced to time in school or at our parish Masses (4000 members, about 40% attendance of pre-covid and have been having Masses again since the end of May) So our strict protocols seem to be working well for us. However, we have had several parishioners and students get Covid in settings outside of the school/parish. For instance with the school we have seen slight spikes after the MEA (Minnesota Education Association) break where there were two days off from school and a smaller spike after Halloween. So the problem: When kids and families are on the strict schedule, things seem to be going reasonably well. But with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up, I'm afraid they will let their guard down again for those times and thus make it hard for us to continue with school or Masses. The next couple of weeks I'll be doing my best fire and brimstone impersonation trying to convince families to just be with immediate household for the holidays. If they don't, it affects us all. Another rant: Totally disgusted with the "no maskers" The Diocese across the river just lost a priest due to Covid. He was a few years younger that me (I'm 58) and he was a no masker. Got to meet his maker due to his stance. And, for the second time today I spit out my coffee.
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Post by taz157 on Nov 13, 2020 17:43:35 GMT -5
Our school district was in Phase 3 and was expected to start Phase 4 at the end of the month. It was announced earlier this week that all schools will be closed with online learning for the next 3 weeks starting on Monday. No in person school expected no sooner than Dec 7th. I’m not sure if they’ll start back with Phase 2 or 4. Even though DD would be going back with Phase 4, we were going to keep her home anyway. Fortunately, DD is doing well with online learning but she’d rather be back with her friends. From talking with others, not all students are doing well with online learning.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 13, 2020 18:46:45 GMT -5
The districts around here keep saying that all of their cases in the schools (both students and teachers) are traced to community spread. Can't the children and teachers who are not tested and asymptomatic be spreading the virus?
The virus is out of control here so I do not believe there is not much covid in the schools.
I do know that testing is getting harder and yet we had over 5000 positive tests today in a state of 3.1 million people.
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Post by teen persuasion on Nov 13, 2020 20:07:32 GMT -5
Another robocall from the school district today. The health department from the neighboring county informed them someone who'd been at the HS tested positive. They are sanitizing and will be open Monday as usual (unless the governor shuts us down over the weekend).
No idea if it's student or staff. The state school dashboard hasn't updated yet today, it's all zeroes right now.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Nov 13, 2020 20:14:35 GMT -5
If everyone would have sacrificed their church service, sports, school, and other non-essential activities for a month or two, and the government issued stimulus like every other civilized country did, we would be in a much better place. Public health and the CDC need to issue clear guidance on what should be "safe" and "permitted" and when. Instead, we have an orange toddler trying to stage a coup, get his narcissistic supply by watching his actions kill people en masse, and a pandemic spreading fast enough to devastate our healthcare system. Winning... School was shut down for at least five months--March through August.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Nov 13, 2020 20:18:35 GMT -5
The districts around here keep saying that all of their cases in the schools (both students and teachers) are traced to community spread. Can't the children and teachers who are not tested and asymptomatic be spreading the virus? The virus is out of control here so I do not believe there is not much covid in the schools. I do know that testing is getting harder and yet we had over 5000 positive tests today in a state of 3.1 million people. Sadly, that makes me feel slightly better about our 1,076 positives today in our 4.2 million people.
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Post by NastyWoman on Nov 13, 2020 20:31:23 GMT -5
The districts around here keep saying that all of their cases in the schools (both students and teachers) are traced to community spread. Can't the children and teachers who are not tested and asymptomatic be spreading the virus? The virus is out of control here so I do not believe there is not much covid in the schools. I do know that testing is getting harder and yet we had over 5000 positive tests today in a state of 3.1 million people. Sadly, that makes me feel slightly better about our 1,076 positives today in our 4.2 million people.
We had a very depressing 362 new positives today. Just two weeks ago 89 seemed like a very bad day (~2million pepole in our county). I can't remember when we last had a number that high.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 13, 2020 20:58:42 GMT -5
My son's school has ONE active reported case. My son spent Halloween with the guy - they are friends and hang. Not one of the kids who hung out with sick-boi on Halloween has shown symptoms or tested positive.
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Post by bean29 on Nov 13, 2020 21:11:11 GMT -5
The headline on Jsonline says it took seven months for WI to notch 100,000 cases, then 36 days to get to the next 100,000 then only 18 days to the next 100,000. DH and I are part of those numbers now. Hopefully no one else in the family, but DD has a headache. 🙏 it’s not Covid.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 14, 2020 8:23:41 GMT -5
The districts around here keep saying that all of their cases in the schools (both students and teachers) are traced to community spread. Can't the children and teachers who are not tested and asymptomatic be spreading the virus? The virus is out of control here so I do not believe there is not much covid in the schools. I do know that testing is getting harder and yet we had over 5000 positive tests today in a state of 3.1 million people. Sadly, that makes me feel slightly better about our 1,076 positives today in our 4.2 million people.
I would give anything if we were at your number, but I think the number will keep getting higher.
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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 14, 2020 10:10:03 GMT -5
Our school district is going 100% remote for the rest of the year starting next week. Cases are under 1% but are rising just like every where else.
I know people are frustrated with the short notice but they lasted longer in person than anyone expected. I'm glad my kids are already home and no change to our routine. Definitely isn't easy to navigate.
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Post by steph08 on Nov 14, 2020 10:13:06 GMT -5
PA had an astronomical 6,000 cases yesterday. It's insane.
So far, school has been good. Two cases at my oldest's elementary. One 2nd grader, no spread. One kindergarten presenter, no spread. No cases that I know of at my youngest's pre-school.
It is starting to hit people we "know" though - a guy my dad graduated high school with died of COVID. Rumor is he and his wife took a bus trip to a casino, and they both got it.
A friend's mom (not in PA) also died of COVID complications - not sure of the story there.
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Post by giramomma on Nov 14, 2020 19:39:47 GMT -5
The girls' school is going online until the new year.
The infection rate is 78.8 cases/100K and the positivity rate is 8.4%. However, the peanut doesn't have school for two days, for the transition to all online. I am beyond frustrated with how many days of school we've paid for that she hasn't had..because the school tried to jockey a hybrid situation. I think, after this week, it's been 2.5 weeks.
We have been given special dispensation for mass again, meaning, we're not sinners if we don't go.
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Post by giramomma on Nov 14, 2020 19:41:04 GMT -5
Sadly, that makes me feel slightly better about our 1,076 positives today in our 4.2 million people.
We had a very depressing 362 new positives today. Just two weeks ago 89 seemed like a very bad day (~2million pepole in our county). I can't remember when we last had a number that high. We've had that many cases in a county of a half million......
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Post by lynnerself on Nov 14, 2020 20:58:51 GMT -5
The districts around here keep saying that all of their cases in the schools (both students and teachers) are traced to community spread. Can't the children and teachers who are not tested and asymptomatic be spreading the virus? The virus is out of control here so I do not believe there is not much covid in the schools. I do know that testing is getting harder and yet we had over 5000 positive tests today in a state of 3.1 million people. Sadly, that makes me feel slightly better about our 1,076 positives today in our 4.2 million people.
And that was enough to trigger the Governor to invoke a 2 week freeze. I'm glad we seem to have one of the most aggressive responses of the country.
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Post by gs11rmb on Nov 18, 2020 10:00:28 GMT -5
We're at 176 positives daily in a county of 760,000. There's no way our schools will be returning before January. I was texting with a friend last night in a suburban district and she said individual schools are starting to close and she won't be surprised if the school board closes the entire district soon. On the news this morning it was announced that the neighbouring school district's enrollment decreased by 2.5%. I'm guessing our district will have had similar results. That theoretically translates into 127 teachers being eliminated next year .
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 18, 2020 10:27:35 GMT -5
My hometown had 280 new cases yesterday in a county of 83,000. 42 hospitalized in the hospital where my mom works. They have 11/18 ICU beds filled by COVID patients. It's not sustainable at all. No one seems to give a damn that those numbers can't go on. It's all the mean governor shutting down winter sports.
Everyone is so certain it's just a cold and they will be fine.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 18, 2020 10:34:50 GMT -5
I read obits for 5 people this morning who died of covid. Two were a husband and wife who died 3 days apart.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Nov 18, 2020 10:43:03 GMT -5
The most striking thing last spring when we were at the peak was how large the Obituary section of the newspaper was. One Sunday, The Boston Globe had 20 pages of obituaries. In April, over twice as many people died this year compared to last April. Just a nightmare
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 18, 2020 13:41:28 GMT -5
The paper in Minneapolis has been running pages of obits on Sundays.
My paper covers an area of about 100,000 people. So many more obits than I used to see.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 18, 2020 16:04:04 GMT -5
The paper in Minneapolis has been running pages of obits on Sundays. My paper covers an area of about 100,000 people. So many more obits than I used to see. I remember someone from the New York Times talking about how they had to do Obituaries for those that died on 9-11. It took them a month and they had to expand the pages every day.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 18, 2020 16:16:51 GMT -5
I remember that.
The Des Moines paper is profiling Iowans who have died of Covid every Sunday. We are at just over 1500 deaths. Of course, some families are not interested. They have profiled about 240 so far. Every one of them makes me cry, but it puts a name and face and makes me remember they were people and are not a number.
Our local paper is planning to start doing the same kind of profiling since the numbers from the state are getting wonky again. They put an editorial in the paper yesterday that because they can't rely on the state's numbers, they want to put names and faces to the numbers of people who have died of covid in this area.
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Post by jerseygirl on Nov 18, 2020 17:51:12 GMT -5
NYC has shut down city schools, about 1 million children. But bars are still open- bars have to shut at 10pm Priorities?? Sadly many poor kids don’t have access to computers and or their parents can’t help them. The magic 3% infection rate was reached and schools shut even though there aren’t that many cases in the actual schools. Lots of money was spent to upgrade air flow in schools for safety now many of these kids will be at home in old apartment buildings with old HVAC. Madness
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 18:18:47 GMT -5
People in our society care more about themselves and their entertainment than other people and their kids. It's as simple as that.
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 18, 2020 18:32:39 GMT -5
NYC has shut down city schools, about 1 million children. But bars are still open- bars have to shut at 10pm Priorities?? Sadly many poor kids don’t have access to computers and or their parents can’t help them. The magic 3% infection rate was reached and schools shut even though there aren’t that many cases in the actual schools. Lots of money was spent to upgrade air flow in schools for safety now many of these kids will be at home in old apartment buildings with old HVAC. Madness Maybe the equipment purchased to upgrade the airflow in schools did not live up to what was advertised because the infection rate reached 3%. How much worse off are the children at home with an old HVAC in the winter time? Open some windows a bit at home to let in some fresh air. Not a lot-just a little bit because it will be winter.
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Post by jerseygirl on Nov 18, 2020 18:36:42 GMT -5
NYC has shut down city schools, about 1 million children. But bars are still open- bars have to shut at 10pm Priorities?? Sadly many poor kids don’t have access to computers and or their parents can’t help them. The magic 3% infection rate was reached and schools shut even though there aren’t that many cases in the actual schools. Lots of money was spent to upgrade air flow in schools for safety now many of these kids will be at home in old apartment buildings with old HVAC. Madness Maybe the equipment purchased to upgrade the airflow in schools did not live up to what was advertised because the infection rate reached 3%. How much worse off are the children at home with an old HVAC in the winter time? Open some windows a bit at home to let in some fresh air. Not a lot-just a little bit because it will be winter. That’s the point- NOT 3% in the schools but in the city, Right open windows in high floor apartments and have more poor kids falling and dying
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Post by jerseygirl on Nov 18, 2020 18:37:28 GMT -5
Maybe the equipment purchased to upgrade the airflow in schools did not live up to what was advertised because the infection rate reached 3%. How much worse off are the children at home with an old HVAC in the winter time? Open some windows a bit at home to let in some fresh air. Not a lot-just a little bit because it will be winter. That’s the point- NOT 3% in the schools but in the city, apologies for not being clearerRight open windows in high floor apartments and have more poor kids falling and dying
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 18, 2020 18:40:37 GMT -5
That’s the point- NOT 3% in the schools but in the city, apologies for not being clearerRight open windows in high floor apartments and have more poor kids falling and dying Kind of hard to fall out a window which is open a bit which I said twice in my post. Stop being such a trump drama queen queen.
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Post by jerseygirl on Nov 18, 2020 18:45:36 GMT -5
Kind of hard to fall out a window which is open a bit which I said twice in my post. Stop being such a trump drama queen queen. WTF has Trump got to do with schools closing in NY? And sorry people are fools with opening windows and kids falling out
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Post by Tennesseer on Nov 18, 2020 18:50:49 GMT -5
Kind of hard to fall out a window which is open a bit which I said twice in my post. Stop being such a trump drama queen queen. WTF has Trump got to do with schools closing in NY? And sorry people are fools with opening windows and kids falling out trump February 26, 2020: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
How did that work out? We just passed 250,000 deaths from the virus in the U.S. Parents will have to be vigilant with their homes', apartments' windows opened "just a little bit."
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