TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby shotgunmary » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:24 am

Are they going to promote kids to the next grade this year or are they going to have everyone repeat a grade. As I recall school started two weeks late and now kids are missing at least an additional three weeks of school. That's a lot of school to miss. For that matter are seniors going to graduate at the same time as if nothing happened?
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby panamint_patty » Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:24 pm

The silver lining to coronavirus school closures
The guy says that kids need structure. Time needs to be scheduled for learning activities. Are schools providing learning activities or are parents on their own?
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby pcslim » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:32 am

CDC analysis shows coronavirus poses serious risk for young people
Early waves of this disease hit older people because most business travelers are older people. From there it spread downward through age groups and ultimately will hit the very young very hard. That's why social distancing is incredibly important. Closing schools was an important step, but if kids still congregate in groups outside of school they will spread the disease. There are hints that this disease is actually more serious than originally thought. The very young are likely to survive, but may wind up with genetic damage that will impact their physical maturation. In other words, an eight-year-old with the genetics to hit six feet may wind up stunted and several inches shorter than would otherwise be the case.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby pdm » Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:29 am

pcslim: From what I've heard the virus can alter both the genome and the epigenome and can impact anything from adult height to brain development and development of sex organs. (In other words, it could impact fertility -- aka, the ability to produce offspring later in life.) Anyone who is not fully grown would be at risk with prepubescent children particularly at risk. Children in early puberty might be at even greater risk than prepubescent children, but that's not fully understood at this point. In any case, here's what you might call a coronavirus scoreboard:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby drdesert » Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:11 am

New data shows younger people at greater risk from Coronavirus than previously thought
A lot of people are pretending that this is no big deal. Parents need to be responsible and prevent their kids from congregating in groups. Don't be in denial. This is much more serious than you realize! Death is not the only issue here. As mentioned in the last two posts, this disease can have lifelong impact and that's especially important when we're talking about young people who might survive, but is surviving with a PERMANENT DISABILITY what you want for your kids?
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby pdm » Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:22 am

Spring Break Morons Refuse to Stop Partying and Don't Care if They Spread Coronavirus
These idiots represent only a small percent of college students, but they make all college students look bad. They probably don't realize that age has less to do with being vulnerable to the coronavirus than do obesity and smoking. A healthy seventy-five-year-old has a better chance of surviving than a fat twenty-five-year-old who smokes.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby wildrose » Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:19 am

List of California cities ordered to 'shelter in place’
Lots of people still having large parties and gatherings. They seem to not care about contracting or spreading the virus.
Southern California authorities similarly stopped short of shelter-in-place orders, but have still imposed sweeping restrictions. Orange and San Bernardino counties issued new orders Tuesday that ban all gatherings, a day after Riverside County banned gatherings of 10 or more people and L.A. County prohibited gatherings of 50 or more people. San Diego County issued a ban Tuesday prohibiting gatherings of 50 or more people.

Failure to follow this directive is enforceable as a misdemeanor.
Besides the 12 counties imposing a shelter in place order, enforceable as a misdemeanor, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Ventura and San Diego counties ordered restaurants to end dine-in eating and required them to offer only pickup and delivery service.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/list-of-california-cities-ordered-to-shelter-in-place
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby panamint_patty » Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:32 pm

wildrose: It doesn't make much sense to close schools and half of everything else if people are just going to go out any party and spread the virus that way. Commonsense and decency dictates as much. A few people might need a little encouragement and I can see enforcing this as a misdemeanor. That makes sense as long as there's a healthy fine to go along with the citation.
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby shadylady » Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:34 am

pdm wrote:pcslim: From what I've heard the virus can alter both the genome and the epigenome and can impact anything from adult height to brain development and development of sex organs. (In other words, it could impact fertility -- aka, the ability to produce offspring later in life.) Anyone who is not fully grown would be at risk with prepubescent children particularly at risk. Children in early puberty might be at even greater risk than prepubescent children, but that's not fully understood at this point. In any case, here's what you might call a coronavirus scoreboard:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

California's Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs To 27
Large increases seen, particularly in the 18 to 64 age bracket. It does appear that it's starting to hit younger people. I'd expect to see the under 18 age group hit harder and harder over the next several weeks. Parents need to be careful and not assume that this is mostly just hitting older people. We already see it moving down through different age groups and with the up to two week delay before symptoms appear it's best to assume that EVERYONE IS INFECTED!
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Re: TJUSD Board Meeting - March 12, 2020

Postby camel » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:47 pm

Total confirmed cases worldwide has hit 420K, but you gotta figure that confirmed cases are people who have tested positive. How many people have had the COVID-19 virus and recovered and never been tested? A lot of people have only slight symptoms and may not even realize they had anything more than a common cold whereas those with the most serious cases would be the most likely to be tested. So my guess is that the bad news is that way more than 420K people have had or have the virus, but the good news is that that means that the death rate is lower than the raw numbers would indicate. As for kids, I'd be particularly worried about kids with asthma or any other respiratory issue, possibly even including allergies.
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