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Yeah because it appears to have helped reverse cases both in January and this month.
by raydev 5y ago
Yeah because it appears to have helped reverse cases both in January and this month.
- hervature 5y agoYou mean cases started to drop after everyone stopped traveling for Christmas and vaccines started to hit meaningful numbers?
- raydev 5y agoWho knows. The alternative was not closing schools while cases were increasing exponentially. Is that a theory we should be testing when we've already paused elective medical procedures due to the wave of COVID patients?
- chmod600 5y agoI said "in hindsight", meaning that we don't fault the decisions at the time. I think now is when we begin (without blame) to start evaluating what worked and what didn't. Unfortunately, some of the things done were disruptive, and if they were also ineffective, that will lead to blame. But our mission should be honesty first, and have faith that reasonable people can accept that the best decisions were taken with the information available at the time.
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- nradov 5y agoDid it actually help, or was that just coincidental?
- raydev 5y agoThe alternative was not closing schools while cases and incoming patients were increasing exponentially. Is that a theory we should be testing when we've already paused elective medical procedures due to the already high numbers of people in the hospital?
- nradov 5y agoEducation is essential so yes that is a hypothesis we should be testing.
- raydev 5y agoI'm not sure you understand the consequences of an overwhelmed medical system. Regardless, school is being done online. Kids that needed laptops got them.
- hervature 5y ago> Regardless, school is being done online. Kids that needed laptops got them. Right, I forgot University of Phoenix regularly matches their in-person counterparts in terms of quality. Keep telling yourself that teachers who were never trained to do remote teaching are anywhere near the same effectiveness as before. You ever dissect something virtually? Somethings can simply not be learned through a screen. Physical education, dealing when your crush looks at you in the eye, literally anything "hands-on" like swinging a hammer at a nail, the of useful skills that can only be developed in the presence of another human are tremendous. Funnily, most of the useful things learned at school for most people are not the curriculum and it is these things that are missing.
- raydev 5y agoWe can have this discussion if the situation carries on through this year. I agree a lot of places have had suboptimal schooling, some better than others, but I'd rather save lives and hold off on dissecting animals for a year.