Covid-19: School desks adapted by private firm for delayed start of term

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Covid-19: School desks adapted by private firm for delayed start of term

 

 

Thai media reported from Si Racha where a school had turned to a private firm to adapt 200 desks for the anticipated start of the school year.

 

Each of the desks is fitted with front and side screens to prevent spread of coronavirus. 

 

Director Jinda Ketsri of Ban Khao Hin school had contracted GJ Steel to do the work.

 

Only half of the school's 400 pupils will be in classes each day.

 

Picture: 77kaoded

 

Schools in Thailand are expected to finally open either mid-June or at the start of July after the usual opening in mid May was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.  

 

Some schools are taking students only three days a week each utilizing Saturdays to help ensure social distancing, notes Thaivisa.

 

Source: 77kaoded

 

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[Cake Monster]

And with the recommendation that staff are 5 Meters from students, their will only be a max of 20 kids per classroom. 

[kotsak]

And a longer stick to flog them?

 

[RichCor]

So, where does the HEPA filter go?

 

This all seems pretty stupid as it only takes a minimum 15 minute cumulative exposure to the active virus, and the kids will have several opportunities to leave their germs on each other during the course of a day. A comprehensive solution this is not. 

[jacko45k]

11 minutes ago, RichCor said:

So, where does the HEPA filter go?

 

This all seems pretty stupid as it only takes a minimum 15 minute cumulative exposure to the active virus, and the kids will have several opportunities to leave their germs on each other during the course of a day. A comprehensive solution this is not. 

Other than in quarantine and the hospital(s) where the current 86  cases are there should not be any.

[LazySlipper]

Wan't last a week... kids will be playing with the tape trying to destroy it as they do with the chairs and tables themselves... wast of time

 

[RichCor]

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Other than in quarantine and the hospital(s) where the current 86  cases are there should not be any.

With Thailand biting at the bit to reopen to tourists I don't see that isolation accomplishment remaining in place.

 

While I hate to even suggest it, Thailand should go the evil socialist regime route and extremely limit short-term arrivals to bubble areas of Thailand that can be instantly closed off if/when a covid 19 infection is detected, then offer the alternative 15-day mandatory isolation for those wanting to venture into the rest of Thailand (with appropriate papers). Unfortunately this too is not a comprehensive solution as it only penalizes the tourists and all those throughout Thailand who earn their living catering to the tourist/traveler industry, and completely ignores the infection vector of people travelling over marked and unmarked border crossings.

 

So I guess we all need to agree to be micro-chipped.

[John435]

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Other than in quarantine and the hospital(s) where the current 86  cases are there should not be any.

But people in quarantine are the only ones being tested!

[jacko45k]

10 minutes ago, John435 said:

But people in quarantine are the only ones being tested!

I actually do not know that..... I would expect anyone showing up with symptoms to get a test too.

[DaRoadrunner]

5 hours ago, RichCor said:

So I guess we all need to agree to be micro-chipped.

Don't give them ideas.

 

I was looking at the local school where the entrance area is marked out for social distancing with little footprints (how cute), lots o luck getting kids to comply.

[RichCor]

1 hour ago, DaRoadrunner said:

lots o luck getting kids to comply

I'm sure the'll drill it into them, as the individual schools don't want to be seen as failing in a task they believe will elevate them (to where, no-one knows).

 

I really feel sad for the kids. These barrier measures don't mesh well with the learning process.

 

Personally I'd advocate closing the borders to un-quarantined travel until the majority of nations get a handle on dealing with popup breakout infections and decree that any national environmental or behavioral changes be wholly instituted on the travel & detection/isolation industry, letting the rest of the uninfected nation resume normally. These people didn't sign up as guinea pigs to developing low budget version of living on Mars.

[TeaMonkey]

This is from the UK where there is 10 times the number of infections:

 

“Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the University of Cambridge estimates that the risk to children of catching and then dying from coronavirus is one in 5.3 million”

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-what-are-the-coronavirus-risks-to-children

And in comparison. The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. 

[jacko45k]

7 hours ago, TeaMonkey said:

“Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the University of Cambridge estimates that the risk to children of catching and then dying from coronavirus is one in 5.3 million

You really haven't got a grip on this contagion and the misdirection statistics can employ. It is very well known that Covid-19 mostly does not impact young children, but they most certainly can be spreaders of the virus....

Would you have their grandparents collect them from school?

[hotchilli]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Each of the desks is fitted with front and side screens to prevent spread of coronavirus.

The kids will be pooping themselves, no cheating anymore.

[Bender Rodriguez]

somebody is making money

 

but it sure stops NOTHING

 

and breathing in that mask, all day

 

+ the plastic from those screens

 

MADNESS

 

sadly, common sense does not exist in Thailand

[connda]

This is what insanity looks like.

[Leaver]

When the virus has passed and these are no longer needed, maybe they can be attached to a motorbike and used as a windscreen.  ????

[Leaver]

6 minutes ago, connda said:

This is what insanity looks like.

No, this is what the misuse of public money, creating a contract for somebody in order to get a kickback, looks like. 

[holy cow cm]

Makes cheating sooo much easier. Now all kids will pass without retesting and pumped points..