With the reintroduction of in person learning comes increased testing (I hope!) so they may be finding the cases that felt well and attended or had a lag in testing. We had a couple that went to school with pending tests and learned they were positive at school. Hope it settles down with quarantine and tracing for you soon.
I wonder what the number is for them to close? Our district in US has been open 14 days. There are 11 cases, mainly in High School. No talk of closing just more talk of quarantine as there are 3k enrolled in the in person class option for the high school. Thankfully we chose the full time distance learning option the school gave. It is going well so far.
I never see this mentioned as it's a small country that few people pay attention to, but the government in The Netherlands has gone as far as to say masks do little to stop the spread of the virus. We only have to wear them on public transport and hardly anyone wears them elsewhere.
I can only, again, give the experience I have had here in The Netherlands. However, there was a big announcement that contract tracing would be at the centre of the government's strategy to prevent a second wave. A few days later they conceded they didn't have the resources for effective contact tracing and told people who tested positive to call people they'd been around themselves.
Perhaps I should clarify, it is not the whole school that has to quarantine, it’s either the year group or their class bubble, so schools do remain open. An ex colleague of mine has an 11 year old who has to self isolate/quarantine Who only started at the school on Tuesday, while her elder brother, at the same school is expected to attend! There are no options for distance learning and if parents choose to keep their children away from school, at the moment they will be fined for non attendance. Have to say I think I’d take the fine if there was a case at school but that’s because I’m a worry guts!
And then Fauci will say 2022
No, first he'll change it to October 17th, then 2022.
I’m not sure what both of you are saying. Fauci is lying? Fauci doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Please explain if I’m wrong in what I read to both answers. And please, don’t respond with a quote from February or March when no one had any idea about anything yet.
I just assumed he said October 17 because that was the first day of the vacation we canceled
I think what they are saying is Fauci offers lots of opinions on various topics and those opinions don’t necessarily turn into actual directives. Or maybe that’s just what I’m saying. lol.
Maybe that’s the problem! Not enough people taking his advice and making them directives.
No, you can't mask your way out of it if by "mask" you mean cloth face covering. If you had the population wearing properly fitted N95 masks everywhere and changing them every however many hours they are certified for then you could mask your way out of it. The things that are being called masks, while "better than nothing," don't have that big of an effect.
It was a question answered during an interview. He said “may” which seems to me he is aware the situation continues to evolve. He doesn’t actually know right now. No one does.Maybe that’s the problem! Not enough people taking his advice and making them directives.
Because he has contradicted himself more than a politician. In February and March, when he said stuff but had no idea about it, he should have said that he didn't know yet. Instead he stated things as fact and as an expert that were just basically pulled out of his rear end.
He was going by the science that had at the time. Why is that so hard for people to comprehend? Science evolves every minute. As you find out more about what’s being studied, you present that to the public. If you find out there’s a better way by the next day, you inform again. If it takes weeks or months to come to another conclusion, you inform again. It’s science. And it doesn’t care what you or I believe in, it just keeps moving along and coming up with better answers.
Isn’t he just doing his job? So should he only comment on things that have case controlled studies or higher? So if we have an outbreak of a novel virus and they ask his opinion he should say nothing? Leave it the politicians or the public to decide on their own maybe?
I have no issue with Fauci expressing his expert opinion and doing his job. But when he says something that may, in his own words, happen with masks, I’m not going to treat that as any sort of definite. I tend not to take the opinion of just one person as the gospel. But I do appreciate his expertise and am glad we have him available. He’s a key voice.
Something has to be the lowest. Have no idea where that chart came from but let’s say it’s accurate. Let’s go from the top down. The top three are trials and case studies. I believe we can all agre they take a very long time. Months.. years sometimes to understand everything about what’s being studied. In fact we know trials are always at the end of something that’s been studied a long time.
