It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next week or two.
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Texas coronavirus discussion - wear your face masks, y'all
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next week or two.
Some of the deaths have been recategorized yeah. Seems there was some deaths been added that occured some days ago.
BNO news has more than 300 deaths for the day.
Plano ISD Parents Plan Rally Outside District Headquarters
A group of Plano ISD parents is planning a rally Thursday outside school district headquarters. They are requesting schools open campuses to students ahead of the current planned date.
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sigh...
Just keep your kids home.
These people don't care about their kids. I'd say half the people in Walmart don't even have masks on their kids either. Of course the kids are yelling and running wild through the store to try and infect as many people as possible if they have it too. Saw a teenager the other day walk in with a mask on and immediately pull it down once he got inside. The dad didn't say anything to him.Plano ISD Parents Plan Rally Outside District Headquarters
A group of Plano ISD parents is planning a rally Thursday outside school district headquarters. They are requesting schools open campuses to students ahead of the current planned date.
sigh...
Just keep your kids home.
2nd day in a row with 300+ deaths in Texas. At least cases are going down so hopefully in a month or so death #'s will follow suit. Hopefully....
I think it will go back up because people will relax and be complacent. Hell my neighbor and her daughter, one of whom is obese and smokes, the other is over 50 and smokes, flew to fucking Nebraska for a wedding last weekend.
Well, it's all we have to go by. Mask usage, for the most part, is very high in indoor places like grocery stores now so if masks work you would expect the spread to slow down...
True, seen alot of places not following the mask mandate though. Hard to trust numbers though once data moved away from CDC
Eh, sort of. Certainly in the large cities but the further you go out the less they do.
But the cdc isn't the one reporting case numbers in Texas. Pretty sure the individual counties report numbers to the state.
Well, this is a weird anecdote. Nobody ever claimed they would 100% prevent transmission. And unless you are claiming that they are INCREASING transmission, then your anecdote isn't valid. The point is to reduce transmission by ANY percentage. Combining that with other methods (encouraging people to stay home, social distancing, etc) is key. Decreasing transmission by even 10% could easily be the difference between a disease turning into a pandemic or it going away after it infects a small group of people.
Maybe, but ever since the switch numbers have been jumping all over the place.
Where did *I* say they would 100% prevent transmission? And I said they were increasing transmission? Weird take on my post for sure.
Well, you said that after they brought masks in, numbers were creeping up and tried to draw a conclusion from that, which suggests that you think they're ineffective. My point is that people can and will still catch COVID-19 even if everyone wears a mask. The short-term result isn't the point.
They don't seem that unreasonable to me. The fall off of new cases aligns with the bar closures and mask mandate. With the delay in testing results there might be some awkward up and downs.
Shows over for county health authority to keep the schools closed. I can't explain how despondent I am right now with kids in humble isd. I am frankly exhausted from my work into this for the past week. To those out there who are going to get sick and die by being forced to work or whose parents chose to send to school because they have the option, we tried our best, we really did. I am sick to my stomach.
news4sanantonio.com
Gov. Abbott supports AG's guidance that health officials cannot order schools closed
SAN ANTONIO - Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a letter on Friday, standing behind the Texas Attorney General's guidance this week that local health authorities do not have the authoritie to issue a preemptive, blanket closure of schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance paved the way for...
news4sanantonio.com
FOX 7 Discussion: Gov. Abbott on concerns about Texas schools and COVID-19
Gov. Greg Abbott joins Rebecca Thomas to talk about teachers and parents being concerned about schools reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Having to read between the lines here again, but it feels like he's saying "y'all are idiots if you don't take the full 8 weeks."
Our elementary school starts online on tuesday. my daughter has AM classes, son afternoon. he will be fine since he can use his laptop,. my 5 year old, not so much. we will remote as long as we can stand it, there will be a lot of job conflicts unfortunately. Our school will be at 83% face to face starting on the 24th for those who want back in. We have a ton of stay at home parents, but in this real life prisoner's dilemma, almost everyone is rolling the dice. we have so few remote learners that each teacher is handling two grades per day. I think we're at 14 and 12 in our kids classes, so about 1/3 smaller than what is going to be in school. Our zipcode has under 100 positives since the beginning, we are upper middleclass and a bit isolated for houston area. We are going to try to hold on to after labor day and see what shakes out. I have heard disturbing stories from people in the know who talk to teachers and nurses, so its
Despite starting face to face on the 24th, the school by forcing all to do 2 weeks of remote is creating some accountability for when things inevitably go wrong, everyone will have trained on the system. I think that's a good move. We have 40k students in our system, so not very large, but some of our high schools will have around 1000 students there daily (even after an a/b schedule)
The Texas counties do not have the stomach to fight the school boards, so it is what it is.
Despite starting face to face on the 24th, the school by forcing all to do 2 weeks of remote is creating some accountability for when things inevitably go wrong, everyone will have trained on the system. I think that's a good move. We have 40k students in our system, so not very large, but some of our high schools will have around 1000 students there daily (even after an a/b schedule)
The Texas counties do not have the stomach to fight the school boards, so it is what it is.
Austin ISD pushed their start date into September and are doing the first four weeks virtual only, with the option to do four more virtual only after that. Round Rock ISD board is apparently having an emergency meeting today to see if they want to do the same.
Shit. We gotta pick ours up on Monday. Maybe best to go first thing in the morning
What are the laptops the schools are issuing? Chromebooks with built in webcams?
We picked up a Lenovo Chromebook for my son, and after using it a bit, wish we had pulled the trigger on March for one. Keeping him in the dining room away from the distractions of our office is going to be key.
We picked up a Lenovo Chromebook for my son, and after using it a bit, wish we had pulled the trigger on March for one. Keeping him in the dining room away from the distractions of our office is going to be key.
Hidalgo county surpassed Dallas county for 2nd most covid deaths. Only Harris county has more than the county along the valley
My wife teaches in Mesquite ISD and she had to give up her Chromebook for students. So that's what I'd assume.
im super glad i dont work in IT for education right now. I feel for all the IT pros trying to sort this shit out for faculty and students.
if i did work in IT for education I might have been fired for pushing to sort this shit out in May. As some of you may recall you argued with me a few months ago when i was saying they should be prepared to be virtual in the fall.
if i did work in IT for education I might have been fired for pushing to sort this shit out in May. As some of you may recall you argued with me a few months ago when i was saying they should be prepared to be virtual in the fall.
Well that's good news. Is the positivity rate about what it was 2 weeks ago?
Today's numbers still reflect the backlog in Austin. Not sure about the rest of the state.
Positivity rate in Texas is up to a record 24% now. Fewer people getting tested, but more of those tests are coming back positive.
The data is fucked now. Number of deaths, total hospitalization occupancy and positivity rate are the 3 things to watch. And based on those it's getting worse at the same place as before. The new cases per day and COVID-19 official hospitalizations are fudged either intentionally or because healthcare workers are strained.
And this is before the massive school spike in 3-4 weeks.
And this is before the massive school spike in 3-4 weeks.