Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

We just lost an 8th grader at our school. There's going to be so much fucking sadness everywhere before this is over.

Are your schools still open??

My kids' school closed like a month ago and it's going to stay closed for the rest of the year.

[Griff]

Our Swedish friends are super defensive about this. They do a lot of things right there but this looks like a mistake. They tried to isolate their old-timers but it maybe isn't working. It seems reasonable that building herd immunity could work and maybe long term it will but right now that's an ugly graph.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Flint

Are your schools still open??



My kids' school closed like a month ago and it's going to stay closed for the rest of the year.

Oh goodness, no, we haven't had classes since before spring break. Admin emailed parents about the death ahead of time, and will be reading a prepared announcement to the kids during their first period Zoom on Monday. But we had families self-isolating even before schools shut down because they worked at Dell and were exposed to a contractor from India who tested positive after returning home, plus one of the very first confirmed cases in Austin was an extracurricular teacher at our school. (No idea if this kid was connected to him, but for his sake I hope not--the teacher didn't show symptoms until school was already out and he doesn't deserve to go through life shouldering that kind of guilt.)