Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
2nd High School Closed in Georgia

Exactly as I predicted: When they do find cases, those people have been in contact with so many others, they have to quarantine so many students and staff it isn't work keeping the school open. They are out for two weeks, then they all come back. Rinse and repeat, ad infinitum. It would not be nearly as bad if they made everybody wear masks. Also it looks like people wearing masks who do get it, have milder cases because they inhale less virus.

In-person school is not going to work until everybody does those $1 tests every morning. But the big news will be the Sturgis mass extinction event coming to fruition in about three weeks. The good news, is you should be able to get a very good deal on a motorcycle from their executors or heirs.
The economy will not recover until there is widespread, fast testing. That includes schools.

If Trump actually cared about governing, he could have guaranteed his reelection (god forfend!) if he had taken some simple, relatively cheap, actions in conjunction with his (qualified) advisors. A simple, fast, 80% accurate test, would have been the best thing he could have done. Instead, he has resisted it. Modeling good masking behavior would have saved THOUSANDS of lives.

All he managed to do, instead, was highlight his incompetency and idiocy. For that, may the gods be thanked.

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