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This will become the new normal. A two week quarantine won't fix anything, and the virus will spread all over again once the quarantine is lifted and a bunch o
by yters 7y ago
This will become the new normal. A two week quarantine won't fix anything, and the virus will spread all over again once the quarantine is lifted and a bunch of not immune carries venture out in public again. Then we will go into another lockdown and the cycle will repeat.
- halfmatthalfcat 7y agoThey won’t lift the lockdown until we’ve hit certain markers, I’m sure. This is why de Blasio took so long (or rather was forced by Cuomo and other state’s moves) to close schools. Once you close the schools, they aren’t opening for the rest of the year and potentially into the next school year.
- koheripbal 7y agoBingo. School is over for the rest of the year for everyone - globally.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThere may be many reasons to be reluctant to close schools. Some kids get a lot of their food from school and go hungry when school is closed. A lot of parents are dependent on school as de facto daycare and can't afford to pay for childcare when school isn't in session.
- kpozin 7y agoThis is a problem that the city already faces during every school vacation and for 2.5 months every summer. Surely there must already be some functioning solutions. (For example, many NYC schools serve breakfast and lunch to children under 18 throughout the summer. I'm not sure how the lack of childcare is handled during the summers.)
- dwighttk 7y agowhy would you need / how would you get childcare when we're all quarantined at home?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoIf the parent isn't being ordered home yet by the government, state law says "Your child is too young to leave home alone while you work" and they shut the schools down under circumstances where you will find it nigh impossible to get daycare at all because the entire city is dealing with the same issues, this could get you fired (or charged with child neglect if you go to work and leave your child home alone). Lots of people are amazingly callous, but some aren't. Some are reluctant to pull the trigger on a decision like that, knowing how many people will get caught in the crossfire and have their lives essentially ruined even if we magically come up with a cure for the virus tomorrow.
- dillonmckay 7y agoThis is actual happening to a friend. She has a toddler daughter, and two elementary age children. School is cancelled, but she is expected to come to the office on Monday. She works for the school board as an administrator.
- runawaybottle 7y agoIs that realistic? School being done for the whole year (basically the remainder of this semester up until June). That just sounds so other worldly to me.
- selimthegrim 7y agoIf colleges why not schools
- runawaybottle 7y agoPanic is turning out to be extremely expensive for all of us. Mitigating panic at this point seems more important than the virus.
- yters 7y agoI would say this is an engineered crisis. The mitigating approaches most of the world is taking don't make sense practically speaking.
- radmarshallb 7y agoAt this point I’d consider it more likely than not.
- thekingshorses 7y agoOhio governor said that most likely schools will be closed for the calendar year.
- drstewart 7y agoNo he didn't >Gov. Mike DeWine says it’s possible Ohio schools may be closed for the rest of the academic year. https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/15/ohio-governor-says-school-closure-might-last-for-rest-of-academic-year/ https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/03/15/ohio-governor-say...
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoMany institutions are closed (or moved online, e.g., education) for beyond 2 weeks. Some schools within the UC system are fully online through end of May.