Trump calls COVID school closures a 'terrible decision' as cases and deaths rise

[Eindhoven]

32 minutes ago, Yankeesvsredsox said:

Since you asked.Those who  support anti American values by denouncing Americas heritage,  and culture either   verbally,destructively  or through their silence ! That should suffice without stealing this topic!

 

 

What is America's heritage and culture? Native Indians or murderous colonials?

 

There isn't just one perspective. The problem is the people who insist only their perspective should be at the fore with all others ignored or demonised.

 

So a debate should not be categorised as left or right nor extreme, but a debate.

[Dap]

3 hours ago, Rick Sanchez said:

how many students -25 died again ?

Mr. Sanchez, how many student deaths would it take for you to reconsider opening the schools during this massive wave of infections an ok thing to do? The first could be my child or maybe yours.

[Krataiboy]

7 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Not as bad as putting children in harms way of a disease as the infection rate spirals out of control, but go ahead if you think it a vote winner.

 

 

Needless hyperbole. Typically, children who become infected suffer only mild symptoms or none at all. The infection rate is not "spiralling out of control". More testing inevitably produces more positives - or, in many instances, false positives. 

[Krataiboy]

1 hour ago, Eindhoven said:

 

But what about the people they infect? Forget about the politics. Try intelligence/common sense instead.

Children appear rarely to pass on the disease to adults and almost never in the case of under-tens.

Arguably, the damage done by keeping them off school outweighs this risk.

[Sujo]

5 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

Needless hyperbole. Typically, children who become infected suffer only mild symptoms or none at all. The infection rate is not "spiralling out of control". More testing inevitably produces more positives - or, in many instances, false positives. 

Now thats interesting. So kids font transmit it to elders.

 

If no testing then it doesnt exist.

[RocketDog]

3 hours ago, innosiem said:

So many trump haters quick to reply
and not a single point made.....................????‍♂️

BTW: He IS right.
schools should be re-opened asap

can talk figures all day,
but scared people here don't want to use logic when looking at them
so i wont bother....????‍♂️

 

Cool. We have an agreement then. 

 

You won't bother to post and we won't bother to read them. 

 

Win Win! 

[ballpoint]

2 hours ago, Yankeesvsredsox said:

Since you asked.Those who  support anti American values by denouncing Americas heritage,  and culture either   verbally,destructively  or through their silence ! That should suffice without stealing this topic!

 

Oh.  The Confederate supporters.

[Krataiboy]

1 hour ago, Sujo said:

Now thats interesting. So kids font transmit it to elders.

 

If no testing then it doesnt exist.

Would like to try that in English?

[wwest5829]

I had read about human sacrifices by the Aztecs to appease their gods. It appears the USA is called upon by The Donald and his ilk to continue human sacrifice in the name of money ... replacing the older gods.

[Tropposurfer]

A country descended on the collective madness. 

[metisdead]

An off topic post about schools opening in Israel has been removed.

 

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[utalkin2me]

Even Trump is right occassionally. 

[pookondee]

Florida is copping it right now, but logic would have it that they could be the first location that gambles the viability of herd immunity.

 

Every human in the world has lost any real quality of life to this thing, not to mention the sabotaging of our economies due to lockdowns.

 

I actually think all eyes should be on Florida right now.

After what will be a certain percentage of infections and deaths, they could recover better in the long run.

 

Many have said all along, this thing is so widespread and infectious we can not hope to contain it.

Its probably just a matter of time before most of us get it anyway, and meanwhile we have caused massive damage to society with these lockdowns.

 

More people are depressed and in hardship, suiciding,

families split up, and economies in ruins.

 

Who wants to live like this?

 

I can see a day coming, when people will have had enough and 

"Pro-herd immunity" groups start gathering and rioting in numbers, to force the spread and therefor herd immunity.

 

You cant just keep closing industry and not allowing people to make a living.

 

It may be ok in countries that are paying stimulus & welfare, but in the countries that arent and people start getting hungry...well somethings gotta give.

[Damual Travesty]

16 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

 

But what about the people they infect? Forget about the politics. Try intelligence/common sense instead.

Please , when you make a response, try to give a reasonable argument in rebuttal. Simply stating in your response that the person you are responding to lacks intelligence and common sense, simply points to your own attributes or lack of them.

 

Again, it is impossible for a nation to remain in lock-down. There are negatives to remaining in lock-down that have to be balanced. This is especially true as Doctors have claimed that this virus may have a round two or three. Additionally, the mortality rate of covid seems  quite low and families can be taught to take proper precautions if they have at risk people in the home. This can be argued for and against, many ways, but none of those arguments should be reduced to laying a claim that someone lacks intelligence or common sense.

 

I have laid out a case twice now that contains both common sense and intelligence.

[Damual Travesty]

13 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

I had read about human sacrifices by the Aztecs to appease their gods. It appears the USA is called upon by The Donald and his ilk to continue human sacrifice in the name of money ... replacing the older gods.

Is this how you make a case for keeping schools closed? By compared the President of the United States to an Aztec Emperor? And those who believe in conservatism as no more then his subjects, or ilk as you put them?

 

In all things in life there are trade-offs. There is suffering from the illness, and there is suffering from the schools staying closed. To deny that long term ramifications of keeping schools closed exist simply is refusing to understand the argument.

Edited July 16, 2020 by Damual Travesty
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[stevenl]

2 minutes ago, Damual Travesty said:

<snip> deny that long term ramifications of keeping schools closed exist simply is refusing to understand the argument.

Where did you see that?

 

And yes, Trump has made this political, only in the US is there. Big gap between attitudes of conservatives and liberals.

[wwest5829]

24 minutes ago, Damual Travesty said:

Is this how you make a case for keeping schools closed? By compared the President of the United States to an Aztec Emperor? And those who believe in conservatism as no more then his subjects, or ilk as you put them?

 

In all things in life there are trade-offs. There is suffering from the illness, and there is suffering from the schools staying closed. To deny that long term ramifications of keeping schools closed exist simply is refusing to understand the argument.

Educators and thinking individuals have called for safety steps to be implemented before schools are open. So, yes there are trade offs. Safety steps and related costs to be covered before attempting to reopen schools. No sending home foreign students due to schools switching to the safer online courses. Trade off lives in the name of the economy ... human sacrifice.

Edited July 16, 2020 by wwest5829

[Damual Travesty]

16 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

If it's just one it's already too many, but I'm betting it's (way) more than one. And you do know they can carry the virus and pass it on to their (grand)parents, uncles and aunts, don't you? But who cares, it's just a flu, right?

An interesting time to bring up the top causes of deaths among college students so we can put things in perspective:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535338/

[geriatrickid]

19 hours ago, Rick Sanchez said:

how many students -25 died again ?

How many  "recovered' patients have lung damage, and/or are at risk for future respiratory illness, and are at risk of circulatory related disease? 

[Opl]

15 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Children appear rarely to pass on the disease to adults and almost never in the case of under-tens.

Arguably, the damage done by keeping them off school outweighs this risk.

"3 educators battled COVID-19 after teaching in the same room. 1 died. Now, they have a warning"

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/07/09/after-arizona-teacher-kim-byrd-dies-covid-questions-raised-over-school-reopening/5405651002/

[Tie Dye Samurai]

23 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

It gives the illusion everything is back to normal, he has beaten the virus

No...The virus is Liverpool and Trump is Norwich (soon to be relegated back to 5th Avenue)

[The Barmbeker]

4 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Even Trump is right occassionally. 

Maybe (I doubt it!)...but not in this case!

[metisdead]

A troll post using a trolling reference to President Trump has been removed. 

[Krataiboy]

8 hours ago, Opl said:

"3 educators battled COVID-19 after teaching in the same room. 1 died. Now, they have a warning"

https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/07/09/after-arizona-teacher-kim-byrd-dies-covid-questions-raised-over-school-reopening/5405651002/

Very sad. But to my knowledge this would be the first recorded case of children so young passing on COVID to an adult. Were any of the youngsters tested for the virus and found to be carriers? The report does not say.

 

The lady who unfortunately died was 61 and had asthma and "other health issues". Isn't it possible that either she or one of her fellow teachers became infected elsewhere and the virus got passed around the group?

 

 

[Dap]

23 hours ago, RocketDog said:

Cool. We have an agreement then. 

 

You won't bother to post and we won't bother to read them. 

 

Win Win! 

Difficult to "laugh" and "like" at the same time.

[billd766]

11 hours ago, utalkin2me said:

Even Trump is right occassionally. 

What time, day, week, month or year was that?p

[Damual Travesty]

On 7/15/2020 at 5:30 PM, Eindhoven said:

 

What is America's heritage and culture? Native Indians or murderous colonials?

 

There isn't just one perspective. The problem is the people who insist only their perspective should be at the fore with all others ignored or demonised.

 

So a debate should not be categorised as left or right nor extreme, but a debate.

What does this even mean? Native Americans or murderous colonials? Is that what you have reduced US history to?

[Damual Travesty]

On 7/15/2020 at 4:32 PM, Sujo said:

Ever heard of online learning?

 

Ever heard of non sick passing it on to the vulnerable?

Ever heard of not prefacing your arguments with "Ever heard of". Yes I have heard of online learning and the sick passing on to the vulnerable. Online learning does not stand up I am afraid to learning that takes place in the classroom, nor is it available to everyone, as not everyone has a laptop. Nor does it work for all students. As for passing it on to the sick and the vulnerable their are precautions that can be taken. This argument is one of trade off's. Again, the country cannot stay shut down forever, nor can schools. As the Doctors have said their may very well be a round 2 or round 3. It is time to learn how to deal with this while continuing to go on with our lives. And beside the Covid what comes next? There are horrible repercussions of students on going to school. yes, and people are dying of covid and will continue to do so for some time.

[Opl]

5 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Very sad. But to my knowledge this would be the first recorded case of children so young passing on COVID to an adult. Were any of the youngsters tested for the virus and found to be carriers? The report does not say.

 

The lady who unfortunately died was 61 and had asthma and "other health issues". Isn't it possible that either she or one of her fellow teachers became infected elsewhere and the virus got passed around the group?

 

 

good questions, I believe you know the answers, reason why opening schools when cases are on the rise is a terrible life and death decision,  as "7.9% of the population of the USA had asthma in 2018, Asthma is more common among females and children aged 5 to 14 years",  without systematic testing and tracing, good luck!

https://www.statista.com/topics/1356/asthma/   

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/07/16/new-yahoo-newsyougov-poll-by-three-to-one-americans-reject-trumps-push-to-reopen-schools-despite-covid-19-risk/24563420/

Edited July 16, 2020 by Opl

[Stargeezr]

^{USA  has rational people.?  In Palm Beach Florida, one woman stated that the USA was not a democracy, it was}

^{a republic.  Maybe with her supreme leader Trump runing the show... I think the whole country has to get the virus under}

^{control,  then I might believe that some people are rational, and have control over their urges to}

^{get in large groups without social distancing, especially in the parks and beaches in the states that have them.}

  ^{Good luck USA  you certainly need lots of it right now.}

^Geezer