Yesterday I asked “What is the point of closing universities and companies if K-12 schools remain open?”
Today it seems that a bunch more nearby K-12 schools are closed. The decisions are being made on a town-by-town basis, though. It is unclear to me how this can prevent an epidemic in the Boston area.
What’s more confusing, though, is that preschools/daycares remain open. Won’t that spread the coronavirus among households almost as efficiently as the K-12 schools? Maybe a one-week lag?
Related:
- “70 of 92 coronavirus cases in Massachusetts linked to Biogen employees after biotech firm’s Boston meeting” (CNN) explains where the plague came from. Mission Accomplished: “We work to have an impact beyond our medicines…”, from the Biogen Corporate Social Responsibility page. Like Justices Kavanaugh and RBG, the company brags about practicing gender discrimination in employment: “We are especially proud of our efforts to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace and to advance women in leadership roles.”
- Who funded the Biogen meeting? You did! “The cost of Biogen’s new drug: $750,000 per patient” (CBS). Thanks for paying taxes (Medicaid/Medicare) and health insurance premiums.
More efficiently even. Babies are phenomenal vectors for cold-like diseases. Lick everything, spit all the time, etc.
Yes, I don’t get it either. The argument in Germany is that those who work for police and emergency services need the childcare. In the German state I am in, they even decided to stay open on Monday to give the teachers extra time to prepare lessons to take home (they couldn’t see this coming already?).
The goal should be to contain the spread as early as possible so hospitals are not later filled to the brim with sick and dying patients due to lack of care.
PS. London plans to stream divorce proceedings live!
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/uk/livestream-divorces-intl-scli-gbr/index.html
For today’s valuations, Biogen is surprisingly small at $53 billion. It is kind of a racket & a good example of where the quantitative easing is being concentrated to avoid being counted as inflation. The government just counts the copay as inflation while in reality, it’s $750,000-infinity.
No one seems to be worried about public transportation such as trains and buses, shouldn’t those be shutdown too? They can get very crowded during the morning and evening rush hours and passengers on board commute from all over towns.
I work at a preschool in Colorado.
We do it for the emergency personnel. The ER nurses, doctors, and surgeons. The police officers, firefighters, and paramedics. We do it so that we can help take care of them so that they can help take care of us.
We do it for the kids who would be neglected at home. The kids who would be left alone at home for 8+ hrs a day because their parents HAVE to work. We do it to make sure the kids are safe and have a good meal on the table. We do it to assist them with the homework they have been sent home with from the public schools.
We put ourselves in the line of fire so that others don’t have to. We spend 12 hrs a day open and constantly sanitizing to keep the kids in our care safe. We stop adults at the door so that their germs do not spread throughout the school. We keep our spirits up and positive for those who can’t.
Preschools are important. Preschools are a necessity in a crisis like today.
Beautifully put! I’m a preschool teacher and ditto what you so eloquently stated. Thank you!
We need preschools for millennials. They are just as helpless as little children. And sometimes they will pee their pants.
They have this stupid idea that when we die they will find a wad of cash under the mattress. Nah: all spent on booze and girlz.
Millennials are pretty useless. Those participation trophies and self esteem boosting workshops inflected by boomer parents, boomer teachers, and boomer coaches really did a number on them. The one thing you can say for Millennials is unlike Boomers, no one hates the Millennials everyone pities them and has sympathy as we know where it went wrong for them. The benign neglect Gen X got was a blessing in comparison. We are raising Gen Zyklon right and any old people still alive in a few years are in for a heck of a payback. Your wealth won’t save you. Your children, if you have any, hate you. Going to be fun to watch the warehousing of Boomers in the nursing homes Boomers built for their parents. Lovingly cared for by the finest 80 IQ immigrants America has. Enjoy running out the clock in the world you created.