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A lot of the student and teachers being kept home are symptom free.
This is just false. The largest teacher unions in the country have been pushing school closures. This means many teachers, administrators and politicians also want school closures.
Until like the last week politicians have been reluctant to even suggest schools reopen
https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-teachers-unions-odds-over-20482...
What I don't understand is why you would shut down schools and enforce silly unhelpful mask mandates on them when the science shows children do not spread the disease in any meaningful way and are not badly affected by it. This is the "blind" spot I see.
Just like you cannot claim that one day of bad weather refutes global warming you also cannot claim that an isolated event is climate change. It takes time to prove that.
Getting tired of everyone spouting off about climate change every time bad weather occurs. It's just as anti-science as denial.
I can't imagine anyone without tech skills wanting a phone like this anyway.
No, it's in the Atlantic article specifically linked in the Reason.com article. I'd suggest reading that since the entire thing is based off of it.
>In fact, it would have made no difference tracking cases because of school district's policy of testing only 'unmasked' individuals.
You may want to reread this part...
This creates what’s known as a detection bias, she said, which could grossly affect the study’s findings. (Jehn and McCullough called it “highly speculative to make the assumption that identified close contacts are more likely to be tested than other students.”) McNutt believes that masks are an important prevention tool in the pandemic, but she maintained that the Arizona study doesn’t answer the specific question it purports to answer: whether mask mandates for students reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2."
It would be pretty similar to me calling all Muslims evil since 9/11 happened. Agree?
I was born in the rural midwest and lived there for almost 30 years of my life. Not once have I ever heard of anyone receiving the treatment you claim to have received. Not once have I ever seen anyone receiving that treatment. Therefore, I'm inclined to believe your wild accusations that are so far outside the norm are some Jussie Smollett level incarnations unless you have verifiable evidence.
Since I have the experience of multiple years in the midwest and you were just briefly visiting means my anecdotes have more weight. Just like I wouldn't trust a person from London to provide an accurate representation of life in the Congo I also do not trust you to provide and accurate depiction of life in the midwest.
I live in CO now. I heard the N word multiple times coming out of white student's mouths here. So, I'll just go ahead and make an unfair blanket statement and assume the entirety of the western US is racist scum? NO, because I'm more intelligent than that and not a prejudiced bigot that assumes one person or a handful of people represent and entire area of the country.
Take look at your responses. You're the one painting an entire group of people negatively based on one experience and we have online proof of it. That is the definition of bigotry.
However, you seem to have stopped reading the Atlantic article after sentence you took out of context. "The authors defined an outbreak as being two or more COVID-19 cases among students or staff members at a school within a 14-day period that are epidemiologically linked. “The measure of two cases in a school is problematic,” Louise-Anne McNutt, a former Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for the CDC and an epidemiologist at the State University of New York at Albany, told me. “It doesn’t tell us that transmission occurred in school.” She pointed to the fact that, according to Maricopa County guidelines, students are considered “close contacts” of an infected student—and thus subject to potential testing and quarantine—only if they (or that infected student) were unmasked. As a result, students in Maricopa schools with mask mandates may have been less likely than students in schools without mandates to get tested following an initial exposure. This creates what’s known as a detection bias, she said, which could grossly affect the study’s findings. (Jehn and McCullough called it “highly speculative to make the assumption that identified close contacts are more likely to be tested than other students.”) McNutt believes that masks are an important prevention tool in the pandemic, but she maintained that the Arizona study doesn’t answer the specific question it purports to answer: whether mask mandates for students reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2."
So, your idea is force people not to buy Alexa? You want a law that bans Alexa from the market? Good luck.
Here's a novel idea. Don't buy it. You don't get to decide for other people.
>Don't like your tone, won't really engage further.
What you don't like is that I called you out on your bs.
>It's reaffirming to hear so many other people have similar sentiments.
Oof sounds pretty similar to something a racist would say.
I'm fine with it though, move away. Part of the reason the Midwest is one of the better areas to live in and still affordable is because coastal elites continue believing they live in some utopia, while suckling the media narrative on flyover areas. Yep it's not appealing just avoid it. Enjoy all those homeless minorities you pretend to care about on the coasts! Thanks! :)
Yep, which means your various other comments focusing on exactly that are a form of bigotry, prejudice and/or racism.
>"Enjoy Prosperity" is very loaded. Not everyone finds that implied life prosperous.
No, but you did in your first comment.
Why did you feel it was necessary to put that in your comment? Are you upset that a specific skin color of people decided to migrate to the Midwest?
Did you witness lgbtq or people of certain skin colors being run out of town or receiving some sort of prejudice? Or are you being bigoted and just saying that due to their specific skin color and life choices they want people with different lifestyles to not enjoy prosperity?
Would you say something similar about people's skin color if you went to Nigeria?
What's your point with a comment like this? Yes America is majority white and those percentages are higher in some areas. It's not a problem.
None of that is enforceable without parents making sure it's enforced.
>You are pushing the personal responsibility line onto a 10 years old, think about that
You are being ignorant about the reality of the world. Think about that.
I see you failed to provide an actual way of stopping children from accessing Alexa. Why don't you inform us all on how that will done?
If you rely on corporations to be the moral safety compass for your children you've already failed. I don't care what legal or political ramifications you put in place, it won't help. That is 100% not the way to deal with this.
So you don't have a smart phone then? They're even worse because you have the device on you 24/7 and not just in your home.
>This is not very complicated.
You're right it's not complicated. People are responsible for their own actions, that's where the line is. The device or software isn't making them do anything.
Kids tell each other to do stupid things all the time, are you going to hold other children responsible when some stupid kid acts on what they tell them to? There's a reason the "would you jump off a bridge if someone told you to" saying exists....
I would like to know how something like this would even work with the limited space in large cities. There's a reason they build up and not out.
Not sure about your intelligence IQ but your emotional IQ is in the gutter.
They're so far disconnected from serving the people and the needs of this country it's a joke.
This seems to be why a lot people feel much more fulfilled when then venture out into nature for a decent amount of time. The things they do there directly impact their survival. I agree that people do need work in that sense.