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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. |
The fact is that on a population adjusted basis, looking at deaths, the U.S. is not doing worse than much of Europe. Maybe we will pass them in time, but so far there are still several countries in Europe that have more deaths per million people than the U.S. Also, New York, if it was a country, would be the worst country on earth for COVID-19. Their nursing home policies were a complete and utter disaster. New York's experience has dragged down results for the entire U.S.