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Originally Posted by blueash
You posted a link from april on the school experience in Australia, a country that has had a tiny fraction of the disease compared to here. Somehow you missed all the newer stories about Australian schools being closed down due to Covid cases.
Virus sets off new school closures in Australia
After 181 cases in a city of 5 million, what did they do in Australia just this week?
Apparently the government of Australia does not believe in keeping the schools open with an incidence of COVID of 181/5,000,000 The population of Florida is about 20 million so that would mean shutting down with 725 positive tests in the state. Do you really want to tell me about how we should be doing what Australia is doing? The study you linked looked at 9 children. I wouldn't draw any conclusions from that tiny bit of data.
The point you seem unable to grasp is that the pandemic here is not matched by the experience in any other country except Brazil which is run by a maniac IMO. You want to talk percentages? We are under 5% of the world population but have 25% of the cases and 25% of the world deaths. We are not Europe, they have it under control. We are not Australia, they have it under control. We are not China or South Korea they have it under control. We are Brazil. Except Brazil has its schools closed in the major cities.
A responsible planning consideration for opening schools has been issued by the AAP. |
Your links describe a hotspot in Melbourne only, where they have reclosed schools. Not the whole country. Nothing about this new hotspot being related to schools, except "a few students tested positive"
Doesn't matter, the study I posted showed very low transmission of covid in schools to teachers and students. Hotspot panic in Melbourne story does not disprove the study.
See post #21 for a clear view of how schools in Sweden stayed open during entire pandemic when their cases per million kept pace with USA. 9 deaths under 30.
I really don't care what Australian government may or may not do. Actual data from Sweden refutes the entire panic over schools reopening, because they never closed and nothing bad happened.
Forget scientific studies and government guidelines, we have actual data from Sweden. Schools stayed open during entire pandemic and we have actual results. NO PROBLEMS