It does matter. If they don't have a comparable setting(numbers of people, numbers of sick people), then what does it matter in comparison to ours? If a sample USA school has 100 kids in it that tested positive, where a German study had like 25, how is that an accurate comparison?
I just googled real quick and grabbed the first result https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/f...s-have-not-reported-negative-covid-19-results
some labs in florida weren't reporting total tests completed just positives, it was something like 3-5% of the states totals so it wasn't impacting top line numbers in any significant way and imagine it's similar in other states where the testing capabilities are so disseminated with little oversight/reporting guidelines
or if a USA school has 100 and a German school has 2, and those 2 could be kept out of school BEFORE they become symptomatic because the child got the virus from their parent, who got it at work, who was called on the phone 4 days before the kid is symptomatic by a contact tracer. The entire family then gets tested, dad gets positive results same day, rest of family quarantines for 2 weeks. In the USA, no contact tracing call is made. The employer hides the positive result from an employee to keep the workplace open. The kid gets it and goes to school. The parent is sick and gets a test. The kid goes to the school during the 8 days it takes dad to get a test result back because the kid isn’t showing symptoms. By the time dads positive result comes back, it’s 12 days after the German dad would have gotten his test back and the kid has spread it to countless other kids and possibly teachers during that time. comparing Germany to the USA on school openings is like comparing my local middle school football team to an NFL team.
Fwiw, I don't think I was very clear in my original response to 941- What that lady was saying isn't just made up, it's based on something that did happen. Just not 300 labs making up positives. She is spinning it to fit her narrative
Because they are comparing the transmission in schools to the general public. Germany as a whole had less transmission, that is baked into the school numbers.
They had less transmission because they took this all seriously and actually stayed at home......jesus.
Ok that doesn't refute what the study says. Also either the Dresden study or the Swiss study didn't just look at the population of one country.
There was just a story last week about one in New Mexico that had a few employees test positive and continued business as usual with no mitigation strategy implementation. State shut down the location.
You can keep clutching to those foreign studies, but their studies don't accurately show anything for how we are in this country. We have labs that aren't even reporting all their results.
Have you read the studies? You sound like a Trumper right now. I'm not going to believe the WHO on the China virus with them foreign studies!
I'm not saying the studies are wrong. I'm saying those studies have no relevance to how shit is in our country.
I go to Walmart every couple weeks and the one near me has required masks for at least a few months. Edit
It is relevant for what it is meant to be relevant for. Kids don't seem to be super spreaders to other kids or their parents. It doesn't mean schools should open, but when you talk about the virus in relation to kids, this is what the studies are telling us right now.
So then if we want to circle all the way back, you bringing this up has zero to do with what Daniel Ocean said. Schools aren't safe to open up right now in the USA, no matter what study you try and bring up. Also, there's more people at schools than kids. So you trying to make this only about students is disingenuous
Dewine is giving a speech at 5:30pm today Rumor is were going to have our first Level 4 county (Hamilton) but no one knows what that means exactly
We need more women leaders. Even the dipshitted women are usually significantly better than their male counterparts.
Wow, not even Georgia has it and we're getting buttfucked right now. It's the bare fucking minimum to actually curb this shit.
It’s got no teeth. Only states to wear a mask when you are within 6 feet of someone from another household. Exempts certain medical conditions and when you are eating and drinking, etc. And for some reason, exempts religious services. Meanwhile
It will be interesting to see which municipalities actually enforce it but regardless this has to be a good step towards other red states falling in line. Alabama has always been known for its progressiveness ;)