Covid-19

greg nr said:
My town's school system has been doing this for years. HS kids get picked up at 7, middle school 7:45, elementary 8:15. Same buses/drivers. They come home in waves as well. Plus a late bus for kids in sports.

But a lot of parents drop kids off themselves. Always been that way here. Probably a lot more walkers and parent driven kids if/when our schools reopen.
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Yeah, know how that works.......we have 4 busses and 4 towns that go to our K-8. I have choice of HS.
 
I guess Western Canada is having a problem with visitors coming to/from Alaska abusing the open access agreement. Visitors coming in either direction will now have 48 hours to complete the drive, must stick to a specified route, cannot visit any friends or parks in Canada, cannot use any services other than pay at the pump gas, drive thru restaurants and washrooms. Everything is explained at the border and you're given something to hang from your rear view mirror. Failure to comply is a $750,000 fine and up to one year in jail. :shock:
 
Laughing Grass said:
I guess Western Canada is having a problem with visitors coming to/from Alaska abusing the open access agreement. Visitors coming in either direction will now have 48 hours to complete the drive, must stick to a specified route, cannot visit any friends or parks in Canada, cannot use any services other than pay at the pump gas, drive thru restaurants and washrooms. Everything is explained at the border and you're given something to hang from your rear view mirror. Failure to comply is a $750,000 fine and up to one year in jail. :shock:
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Can you please provide a link to the official info?
I am looking at having to make that trip very soon & don't want any glitches.
 
Laughing Grass said:
I guess Western Canada is having a problem with visitors coming to/from Alaska abusing the open access agreement. Visitors coming in either direction will now have 48 hours to complete the drive, must stick to a specified route, cannot visit any friends or parks in Canada, cannot use any services other than pay at the pump gas, drive thru restaurants and washrooms. Everything is explained at the border and you're given something to hang from your rear view mirror. Failure to comply is a $750,000 fine and up to one year in jail. :shock:
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That's $750,000 Canadian, so that's like, $250 USD. No biggie ;)
 
@curious2garden , A respected friend stated that only 190 people under 25 years old in the US has died from the virus, and that that mortality rate is lower than the seasonal flu for this demographic. 190 in total. This chart seems to indicate the same - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

Is this true? If so, it seems the biggest risk of children going back to school is that they could spread it to people over 25. This doesn't sound right...
 
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tyler.durden said:
@curious2garden , A respected friend stated that only 190 people under 25 years old in the US has died from the virus, and that that mortality rate is lower than the seasonal flu for this demographic. 190 in total. This chart seems to indicate the same - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

Is this true? If so, it seems the biggest risk of children going back to school is that they could spread it to people over 25. This doesn't sound right...
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Good morning Tyler, I think the only way we'll know the truth of this is retrospectively. There has been so much interference I trust nothing. Once the data gathering was taken away from the CDC I lost faith in it's veracity. I've heard rumblings that we are at least a week behind in data etc....

I do know that the younger you are the lower the death rate. I know we've gotten better at treating. Conversely we do not know the full morbidity of this virus. So we may see a decrease in lifespan among the currently youthful cohort. But that is speculation.

Just because you don't die doesn't mean you aren't left with some lifelong consequences. We also know that in the 5 and younger age groups they can have 100x the viral load in the upper respiratory tract. I think opening schools right now with the virus at such a high rate in school community this is an experiment we may live to regret. I hope not.

I've reduced my watching of this slow motion train wreck. I can't bear it. It breaks my heart. History will judge us very harshly and deservedly so in my opinion. I think it's what finally killed my beloved iMac. It couldn't take it so it literally poked its own eyes out (the gpu died).

How are you and your son doing? That's the one bright light in this mess. It seems parents although financially getting hurt are spending more time with their children. Thanks for mentioning me. I dislike browsing the net on my Linux, Windows and phone so until my new system gets here I'm missing a lot and missing you guys a lot!
 
curious2garden said:
Good morning Tyler, I think the only way we'll know the truth of this is retrospectively. There has been so much interference I trust nothing. Once the data gathering was taken away from the CDC I lost faith in it's veracity. I've heard rumblings that we are at least a week behind in data etc....

I do know that the younger you are the lower the death rate. I know we've gotten better at treating. Conversely we do not know the full morbidity of this virus. So we may see a decrease in lifespan among the currently youthful cohort. But that is speculation.

Just because you don't die doesn't mean you aren't left with some lifelong consequences. We also know that in the 5 and younger age groups they can have 100x the viral load in the upper respiratory tract. I think opening schools right now with the virus at such a high rate in school community this is an experiment we may live to regret. I hope not.

I've reduced my watching of this slow motion train wreck. I can't bear it. It breaks my heart. History will judge us very harshly and deservedly so in my opinion. I think it's what finally killed my beloved iMac. It couldn't take it so it literally poked its own eyes out (the gpu died).

How are you and your son doing? That's the one bright light in this mess. It seems parents although financially getting hurt are spending more time with their children. Thanks for mentioning me. I dislike browsing the net on my Linux, Windows and phone so until my new system gets here I'm missing a lot and missing you guys a lot!
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When I posted this from an article recently:

One of the JAMA Cardiology studies found that, among 100 adults who recently recovered from Covid, 78% showed some type of cardiac involvement in MRI scans and 60% had ongoing inflammation in the heart.
The study included patients ages 45 to 53 who were from the University Hospital Frankfurt Covid-19 Registry in Germany. They were recruited for the study between April and June. Most of the patients -- 67-- recovered at home, with the severity of their illness ranging from some being asymptomatic to having moderate symptoms.

I thought it was a game changer for people to take it more seriously.

The study was in Germany and seeing 20k people protesting masks in Berlin recently I think played a roll in myself being blah for a few days.

Not sure you will like it but I recommend the movie Soul Surfer as a possible mood lifter.

The story about the girl in Hawaii that lost her arm to a shark in 2003. Good for all ages and lots of surfing and great waves.
 
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