The average age of death is 87 yrs old.
Are we gonna lock down for the flu for the rest of our lives???

They will break the law to prevent abortions but insist that little children are fine living on a diet of Covid.
Stupidity your name is Conservatism.

Well said and I have thought along this line for a while. I do agree with you that it is airborne.

Our district came up with a plan to get us back in person (up to 70% of kids in order to socially distance and masks for anyone older than 2nd grade). This was recommendations from admin and teacher committee. Now school board and parents have at it. The loud people are against masks for any kids. Many teachers were already against going back but if it gets changed to no masks required, I will probably join them.

Um, well that plan didn't go well. It was people who understand science that knew how bad it could get and are not surprised by this out come. They were constrained from speaking out. If they did speak out were quickly shouted down by the likes of the opinionator pimps of propaganda porn fox media, along with rush, right leaning talk radio and various state elected officials.
My county never experienced a first wave of illness. The wave hit after we moved to phase 3 re-opening right after Memorial Day weekend. My county is surrounded by counties with very high or out of control infection rates and are locked down or in 1 or 2 phase. So of course when recreation and dining options became available under phase 3 people from highly infected ares flocked here and there has been a huge surge in cases and deaths. 290 cases 17 deaths in 4 weeks. I realize that is very small compared to the rest of the U.S. but the total population of my county is only 45,000 with just under half living in my city. Most of the deaths are from 2 long care facilities but even if you take the number of new cases at those places away from the number of new cases my county exceeds the percentage of cases allowed for a safe phase 3 opening. The people of Kittitas county failed their phase 3 re-opening, as did most of the rest of the state so the governor issued a mandatory must wear a mask order. There has been no move to go back to phase 2.
Even countries that did it so much better than the U.S. are experiencing new waves of illness.
Normal is NOT coming back any time soon. Just needed to rant a bit.

My housemate is a high school educator. Her entire department has gone on record as saying that they object to classes starting up in a couple of weeks. Others that have taken sabbaticals or medical leave in droves. Teachers are now expected to have students eat breakfast and lunch in their classrooms and check their temps twice a day. Staggered school dismissal will take over an hour each day.
Desks are expected to be 6ft apart, and row seating will be staggered. Teachers are expected to sanitize their entire rooms between classes.
School administration has claimed that non-maskers will be an administrative issue. If a teacher sees a student without a mask, it's an immediate trip to the office. These are the same kids that can't be responsible to keep shirts tucked in or wear a belt. But they're going to surely bring their parents' attitude that "masks are stupid and don't work! ANd beSiDeS, mAsKs Is kOmUnist PrOpAgAnDa aNd Its uNaMeRikkkan, bRuH!! tRuMp 2020 WOOHOO"

All of this is meant to keep schools running until the entire state is able to accommodate for virtual learning from home.

Absurd. Absolutely absurd.

I said it several months ago: School openings will quickly & forever dispel the idea that "only old people are vulnerable"

Fucking dumbass rednecks!

Inquiring minds want to know — did they test all students and staff? Do they plan to?

I know its a hard ask, but we need teachers enmasse to refuse to teach in person. Online classes are fine. Its not that bad. I have no idea why anyone pushes in-person teaching.

Insane risks

Furthermore, it's less disruptive to students to just do a streamlined online only program. Their education will suffer by missing days here and there and missing assignments because of not being able to consistently attend. I'm sure if they get sent home and aren't accustomed to (or prepared for) transitioning to online learning is going to make everything so much harder. Kids need predictability and routine, playing it day by day is adding extra stress that they don't need.

"Any staff or students who test positive for the coronavirus can return to school only after isolating at home for 10 days and allowing at least 72 hours to pass since showing symptoms."

Umm, with an incubation period of 14 days, asymptomatic people, and some recovered patients who continue to shed the virus for many weeks after they have it... how would this remotely work?! We don't have the capability to test every person, every day. Why oh why can't we just be smarter about this?!

So we pool test all these people's contacts, if they have that testing procedure available. Hopefully the pool comes out negative. If not we have to do further testing and quarantining. Will all employees get sick pay during quarantine? This is just one school. One state. The plot thickens.

I can't believe, this came as a suprise! Idiots!!