Strict measures for two months to drastically cut back community transmission, then limited measures like masks until vaccine spread.
That makes sense, basically in an ideal world where people weren't stupid, we could be at a state of normal-ish by now. Thanks!
A really good treatment option could help us make big strides toward normal before a vaccine can be widely distributed. Monoclonal antibodies seem to be the most promising so far, but they're still months away from being implemented and aren't the easiest thing to scale up in manufacturing.
We're opening hybrid in my district and I will likely have students that are online only. I'm required to livestream my classes for at least 50% of the time due to Connecticut state mandate. Essentially what this means is I can't take advantage of the sort of things that I could do with in person learning, like a lot of discussion and maybe small group discussion (or at least talking to someone at the nearest 6 foot away desk), nor can I take advantage of any of the things I could do with distance learning, like letting the kids work on something in their own time or producing videos, etc. I'm basically doing distance learning in-person with none of the benefits. It's going to be... messy.
NJ Daily Numbers:
+484 new cases (185938 total)
+9 deaths (14046 total)
A couple important notes. The governor is signing an Executive Order today officially opening all schools for the fall semester. There are a couple caveats though.
1) Anyone who wants to learn remotely has to be accomodated and that includes the Free Lunch program
2) Masks are mandatory in all schools
3) If a school cannot meet the health and safety guidelines they must be 100% remote until they can meet them
Yeah...I don't know. The thing I keep coming back to is how badly low income children are getting screwed by this. If you are working class person and your young child is in remote school there is no one to stay on top of them. So basically kids where the gap was already enormous are now going to be a year behind because the well off families are hiring tutors to keep their kids up to speed.
Probably that plus a lot of people wised up based on how bad things are in their areas. You can only deny it until people you know start dying.
Yeah, its as good as we can hope for with the school year starting and no vaccine. We'll know pretty quick how that is going to sort out I think.
I didn't have time to read the whole article but I would still classify that as a *minimum. Reason being is deaths plummeted around items like driving deaths etc.
Are they counting the adjusted death totals many states have put out? I don't see any spikes in the graphs for states like NY/NJ who reported them after the fact.
Those were where the cause of death was revised to COVID?
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