From KCAL9:
Students To Wear Face Masks At All Times Under LA County Plan To Reopen Schools
When schools in Los Angeles County eventually reopen, students will required to wear face masks at all times under a plan released Wednesday.
Whose brilliant idea was that?
Does that person know anything about children?
I tried to put my 6-year-old in a mask becauseit was required. Even with the promise of all the ice cream and Oreos he could eat when he got home, it didn’t last long enough to score points in PBR bull riding.
And for the free second he was wearing it, he was fidgeting with it.
So tell me how schools intend to teach little kids while they force them to stay in masks and try to get them to pay attention to something other than their mask.
How much punishment will it take?
Will kids be expelled over taking off their masks?
Under the plan, school lunches would be served in classrooms instead of cafeterias, hallways would be one-way only, and each student would be assigned one ball to play with alone.
Absolutely none of that will happen without a fight.
Try and stop a bunch of kindergartners or first-graders from playing together or eating alone.
This won’t be a leaning environment. It will be a disaster.
This will be the end of public school as we know it. It’s an admission that schools are just minimal security prisons that teach shit math and Leftist indoctrination.
Normally I’d say the death of our current public school system is a good thing, but I don’t know what will replace it or what the state will do to try and prop it up to protect the educational system bureaucrats.
What I do know is that this idea is going to suck something fierce.
Just like online colleges are gaining increased acceptance, homeschooling K-12 supplemented with online resources will become a huge industry. I smell an investment opportunity.
Try and stop a bunch of kindergartners or first-graders from playing together or eating alone.
Try and stop middle schoolers or high schoolers from doing that as well.
“One way halls”? WTF? Just how the h**l are the students going to get to and from classes?
“Each student is assigned one ball to play with alone”? Yeah, sure that’ll work, nobody is goring to throw their assigned ball at anyone else. Not to mention the “fun” to be had keep track which ball is assigned to whom.
And school comes even more to resemble prison.
And, if you ask the school administrators what is so horrific about this virus that masks are necessary, they will not have any idea. It is just CDC guidelines, or protecting the vulnerable. Not a single thought on what, exactly they are protecting them from.
It’s long been obvious that a functioning brain is professional disqualification for the job of school administrator or principal.
On masks: MA apparently requires masks on any person older than 2 years. Amazing. Then again, Charlie Baker (the RINO governor) is showing fewer and fewer signs of being able to think.
You can’t blame them for that. The first school that is not following the CDC recommendations that winds up with a COVID case is going to get blamed, sued, and made an example of.
Divemedic had a posting regarding the CDC recommendations. When you are done reading the 60 pages of “recommendations” what you have is the following:
Every single thing you have seen anybody suggest to slow the spread of the flue/virus is recommended.
As a local entity, you know your circumstances better than we do, therefore use the right recommendations for this list we just gave you.
If a school system implements 90% of what’s on that list, they will not function as an educational entity. If they fail to implement 100% of that list and one kid gets the CCP Virus or a parent/family member catches it, then that school system is going to be sued out of existence for failing to follow CDC guidelines.
It is a huge CYA for the CDC.
According to my lady, the CDC was “forced to give that list” because “their recommendation that we not open the schools until we know more” was not accepted by the Trump Administration.
And this is where I and my lady have most of our arguments. For her “we don’t KNOW!!! We can’t open up/do X until we know!” and “Historically we know that pandemic’s last 2 or 3 years! We can’t open up/do X this soon. We don’t KNOW”.
Her argument always comes back to “Given the current data, regardless of how good it looks, we can’t open up because we keep finding new stuff and that new stuff is scary.”
As examples, we now know about CCP Virus can cause unusual blood clotting. These clots can lead to strokes and death. We don’t know how many or to what extent, but more than a few.
There are some indications that CCP Virus is causing issues with children that are asymptomatic in other ways. These issues include damage to internal organs. Again, we don’t know how much or why or how often.
My lady says that these unknowns regarding these two things plus all the other unknowns are enough to keep the schools/jobs shut down or at lest in the high alert for stopping the spread.
I look at the same thing and say “Yes, these are bad. Yes, we don’t know how often this happens. Yes, it might cut some lives short. BUT it isn’t death and the numbers are not high enough to stop us from opening the schools in the fall..
I’m getting that “we don’t know” crap from my city assembly members. And, it angers me to no end.
See, the problem is we “don’t know” about anything. Seriously. We don’t know that the pharmacist preparing our prescription is not some homicidal maniac that deliberately provides the wrong dosage to one out of ever 50 patients. We don’t know that the other driver is actually paying attention. We don’t know if that doorknob we just touched has live HIV on it.
We do not know ANYTHING in the future. We do, normally, accept a certain level of risk as we go about our lives. We examine the past, and current data, and make decisions about what level of risk we can accept as we go about our normal life.
But, all of that has been abandoned because COVID-19. The seasonal flu mutates every year, but that’s OK. COVID-19 might mutate, and we need to keep the world locked up indefinitely. Oh… there might be a surge of new infections if we open up…. define surge? No one is. Instead, the “risk” is too great.
I have to remind my assembly members repeatedly that if they do not know, they need to ask. If the health care professionals say they need more PPE before they can recommend dropping restrictions, ask them how much is enough? But… nope. They just accept it and vote to allow our god-emperor Mayor continue acting like a tin-pot dicatator.
We do not know is not a reason for anything.
This is a human psyche thing.
“You have a 99.99999% chance of that $20 being taken from you if you push that button.” Response “No way I’m going to push that button! I’m not going to throw away $20.”
“You have a 0.00000033% chance of winning millions of dollars if you hand me $20 and push that button.” Response: “Take my money! Stop arguing with me, just take my money.”
There is a 0.0084% chance of you dying if you get in a car and drive from NYC to LA and back again.
An average US driver has a 0.0202% chance of dying per year. A person in NY has a 0.15% chance of dying of CCP virus. A person in Texas has a 0.0055% of dying form CCP.
But what we don’t know scares us much more than what we do know. Reach in to that can of spiders, wasps, snakes and pull out the gold bar. People will do it. Reach into that dark hole and pull out a gold bar? Maybe not.
People are much more fearful of the unknown.
Right now my lady is scared to the point of panic of our children going to school in the fall and getting the CCP Virus and coming home with some sort of long term physical issue because of it. She doesn’t really know what that issue might be, or how bad it would be, or how long it would last or a dozen other things.
The unknown is terrifying to some.
I agree with you completely, and when it comes to personal choices, I fully support whatever level of risk acceptance a person chooses.
However, when it comes to public policy, and I find out that my city assembly is voting to continue actions that are knowingly harming tens of thousands of residents, because “we don’t know.” I get annoyed. And, the fact that my Assembly representative are not asking the questions to find out, angers me even more.
So, the school district is requiring masks because… the disease is so horrific that masks are necessary? No, they do not know that. Because they want to avoid a surge in infections…. they have no idea what a surge will look like. Because…. well…. there are unknown risks, and they want to avoid them. NOT a good reason to establish public policy.
It’s bad enough when policy is made from ignorance. It’s worse still when politicians deliberately encourage fear and panic, as Democrats are clearly doing in the hopes of wrecking things enough to get a win.
Of course when bureaucrats don’t know anything they err on the side of more control and regulation. How about if you don’t actually know anything you don’t do shit? By the way, to save anyone who wants to read this 45 page monster some time, the actual guidelines effecting students don’t start until PAGE 30. Most of the rest deals with Special programs and various funding & staffing issues. Goes to show how much they really care about the students huh?
Also, the main argument I’ve heard against home schooling and for public school is that “kids won’t be properly socialized unless they’re around all of their peers.” There’s a bunch of reasons why that’s faulty logic but now anti-homeschooling folks won’t even have that excuse anymore. Every new rule is designed to isolate kids.
It’s a cya for school administration for when the law suits come