Thursday, 23 July 2020

Do Teachers Have an Excuse for Missing Class?

Short answer: "No".
I also wonder about locking down swimming pools.  That can't make any sense, given that there are three reasons the virus will die there: 1. The sun. (UV kills germs)  2. The outside. 3. The Chlorine. I haven't seen that one case has been caught in a swimming pool.
Back to schools:
The Times: There has been no recorded case of a teacher catch­ing the coro­n­avirus from a pupil any­where in the world, ac­cord­ing to one of the gov­ernment's lead­ing scientific ad­vis­ers.… 
WSJ: Around the world, cit­i­zens have per­haps be­come more wary lately of the claims of epi­demiol­o­gists. But at a min­imum this re­port puts new pres­sure on lockdown  advocates to pro­duce ev­i­dence of al­leged harms to jus­tify school clo­sures. This also creates a rather awkward mo­ment for U.S. teach­ers unions and their me­dia friends.…
Do Teachers Have an Excuse for Missing Class?