All Washington State K-12 schools closed until 24 April.

WEll finally someone on the news with common sense about closing schools !!!! HE SAID BIG MISTAKE !! Experts are wring their hands on what to do if nurses and caretakers get sick and must stay home and can't come to work .. WELL GUESS what the bright ideal of closing schools had done. TONs of nurses and care givers are forced to stay home because of no child care !!!! Day cares are closing along with the schools..

THAT bright ideal created a bigger problem than it solved . OH WAIT Illness in the schools wasn't a problem !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heck 11 people out of 4.47 million are sick here in Ky. Heck yea shout it from the roof tops. Close the schools , close the resturants , don't go to church Heck lock your doors !!! Buy up all the toilet paper !!! Hoard the canned veggies!!!! Close the walmarts !!!!!

Idiots !!! Don't care how you justify it it's ridiculous !!! ELEVEN !! YES 11 cases in Kentucky. I may add out of HUNDREDS of test, only 11 people positive. Give you a guess how many of them are in the hospital ???

Some keep forgetting the potential,..it is an issue that shouldn't be ignored.

More truth to that than we know.

Italy ain't no picnic. If you wait too long to act then its too late. Once the cat gets out of the bag or the Ginie out of the bottle, there's no easy going back.

Slowing the spread is actually what the social distancing is all about as we don't have anywhere near the hospital bed capacity to deal with a huge rush of seriously ill elderly or younger patients. This means the epidemic may well last longer but not as severe or peaking as high. We have seen how rapidly it can infect in those cell areas we have right now. The fact that a vaccine may be available in 12-18 months is good news for the future if this virus persists in our environment. That is why slowing the spread is about all we can do now. We will soon see how the virus spreads in the USA compared to other nations with several cases. Lot of children come home to elderly folks watching them as their parents are working. Parents and kids adjust to 9-12 weeks of summer so there are ways to cope. For many schools spring and Easter breaks are near at hand and can actually cut down on the total days of school that will need to be made up later this school year.

Bryce

What do parents do with their kids during the summer? Put them in the freezer until school starts back in the fall.

Italy had 2500 new cases today, it wasn't all that long ago they had 11.

Source?

Send them to daycare. The same daycares that have been shut down along with the schools. I'm thinking of writing up a LinkedIN profile for a babysitter. In a week or two I bet they'll be making more than a lot of small business owners.

taly had 2500 new cases today, it wasn't all that long ago they had 11.


You should posr graphics,..would feel more comfortable.

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Exactly! It's too late you're not going to stop a virus. Sorry that's news to everybody. The potential of this thing is going to kill probably a lot of old sick people. That's bad. But life has got to go on

Another thing. everybody's worked up about tests You can have all the tests you want you can have a test for every single person in this country it ain't going to do a darn thing for anybody. They're so incredibly far behind this thing, they will never catch up. So test test away

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. I am right there with ya man.

I’m all for being cautious, but our schools statewide just closed for the next 14 days. I’m ok with that but I have questions...why the next 14 days?
Our kids return to school on the 30th. Who’s to say during that time they are out they or their parents come in contact with someone infected and don’t show symptoms until they get back to school? What then? Another 14 days missed? Wouldn’t it seem more sensible to wait until you actually have a confirmed case in your county?

Now I’m really going to make some think...my son got sick after Christmas. I mean sick enough to go to the emergency room...twice within 3 days. Bad cough, bad congestion, 103.5 fever, etc...he was swabbed twice for the flu and tested negative. The local hospital said they’d had numerous cases and no one was testing positive for the flu. They just prescribed some antibiotics and said stay at home. My youngest son got it too but not as bad. CJ never got it nor did I. My wife started feeling bad and started on Tami-flu or whatever it is and never got as bad as either of the other two...yet none tested positive for the flu with flu like symptoms. Is it possible it’s been around longer than they thought?

Just too many questions and not enough answers.

Alaska’s public schools will be closed until March 30th, announced yesterday afternoon.

That’s the whole probelm, most people have a need to know what’s going on so they can fix it or do something like buying all the toilet paper.

Bryce is very right on this..
If you look at something like a tornado or flood that happens to a small rural area. Lots of times their resources are quickly over whelmed. They call in mutual aid from areas around them for help.. So what happens when the numbers are nation wide? Who do you call for mutual aid? Even something like Katrina people sent help from all across US and even from some foreign countries..Where you going to get that?
We have two major medical facilities here in our city.. Also have 3 large collage campuses.. Say we get hit hard and fill all their ICU and regular hospital beds. Where you going to put all the people that normally come here to doctor from a 60-100 mile circle???And have equipment and people to care for them?
So maybe it is inevitable that we will all be exposed some get sick some get real sick some are going to die.. Slowing the spread of this thing down whether you believe in the severity of it or not.. Is probably in the best interest of everyone. We may have best health care in the world. If you think it can't be over whelmed you maybe thinking to small.

Mac

Something went through the house back some time ago too.
Youngest son had a fever for about a day and it was gone. Got checked out
and it wasn't the flu. Later my oldest boy got something and had congestion for
a couple weeks and had a fever for 4 or 5 days. rest of us had something but not much
fever but a dry cough for a week or so...maybe it has been here longer than we think...


Donnie