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Three Arizona teachers who shared a classroom got coronavirus. One of them died
By Jennifer Henderson, CNN 1 hr ago
Three teachers who shared a summer classroom at a school in Arizona all contracted coronavirus last month, leaving one of them dead.
Kimberley Chavez Lopez Byrd, 61, died June 26, less than two weeks after she was hospitalized. The other two teachers -- Jena Martinez and Angela Skillings -- said they're still struggling with the effects of the virus that has killed nearly 135,000 people nationwide.
All three teachers wore masks and gloves, used hand sanitizer and socially distanced, but still got sick, according to school officials at the small community in the eastern part of the state.
Gregorich reiterated the three teachers were careful and still got Covid-19.
I think that's really the message or the concern that our staff has is we can't even keep our staff safe by themselves ... how are we going to keep 20 kids in a classroom safe? I just don't see how that's possible to do that," he said.
Byrd said reopening schools will put people in their small community at risk and he does not want to see other families go through a similar experience.
"Many grandparents, wind up being caretakers to kids when they get off school- mom and dad are working and a lot of grandparents are even raising their grandchildren. So, many of these grandparents fall into this high risk category of being older with more health issues," he said.
"They have no business opening the schools to try and get back to a traditional classroom ... let's get through this pandemic first before we try to get back to normal."
Really... the 61 year old teacher died. My mother retired before that.
So for how long? 10 years closed? Should we just allow an entire generation of kids grow up unable to do math?
What is your plan exactly.
1. Reduce the daily infection rate to levels that are low enough for contact tracers to be able to follow and do their investigations which involve testing, questioning and isolating people.
2. You reduce the daily infection rate by isolating everyone as much as possible and remaining in isolation until the number of infections drop to a level that can be managed.
3. Its what New Zealand and TAIWAN did. They are the proof that it is possible.
4. The longer the United States waits to go into the lock down mode, the longer it will have to stay in lock down mode to defeat the virus.
5. Until the virus is defeated, the U.S. economy will NEVER RECOVER!
I'm just going to respond to 4 and 5, because those are really the crux of the matter.
This is where the problem is. You want to shut down the planet, until the virus is defeated.
You will never defeat this virus. Never. Covid-19 will never disappear. Hasn't in New Zealand, won't here.
And this is where we simply have to defeat people like you politically.
Because you would destroy millions on millions of people, to try and eliminate a virus that will never be eliminated.
Can we eliminate the flu? Should we shut down the planet for the flu?
Because think about it..... We have vaccines for the flu. We have tested and proven treatments for the flu. The flu is LESS contagious than Covid-19.
Less contagious, tested treatments, and we have a vaccine.
Why have we not eliminated the flu? Why have we not stamped out the flu?
Yet you want us to shut down the country for a virus that is more contiguous, that we have not had decades of tested treatments for, that we have no vaccine for.
That is suicide. No. Sorry. We are *WILL* reopen the economy. We are not your slaves. You are not our masters. We live in a country based on freedom. And you don't get to tell everyone else that they have to end their entire lives, because you are scared of a little virus.
Sorry. Tough snot. We get to vote too. And I'll be voting against any politician that continues the lock down. I'm glad you made that post though, because you effectively are advertisement for Trump.
You are the reason we need to vote Trump. I hope he wins, and I hope he ends this dumb lockdown.
1. The seasonal flu is not the covid-19 virus. Anyone can get the annual seasonal flu shot and avoid dying from the flu. There is no vaccine yet for Covid-19 and it has a death rate 45 times that of seasonal flu. Unfortunately, you don't understand these differences which is why you bring up seasonal flu.
2. You can rebuild and economy of a country a city anything. Japan rebuild Hiroshima which was NUKED in August 1945. By 1958, Hiroshima was larger and wealthier than it had been in 1945 before it was nuked.
3. What you can't do, is bring back people who have died from covid-19. You can bring back the economy, but you can't bring back the people that have died.
4. The economy will remain in recession as long as the covid-19 virus is not contained. The only path to a better economy is by containing and defeating the virus.
5. New Zealand and TAIWAN have defeated the virus. The few active cases they still have are not relevant and are easily controlled by contact tracing.
6. NEW ZEALAN AND TAIWAN ARE THE BEST EXAMPLE OF HOW TO HANDLE THE VIRUS! THEY HAVE PROVED THE VIRUS CAN BE DEFEATED! The few active cases each country has are under control.
Your flu shot bullshit is just that. Two years ago, both my wife and daughter received flu shots. About a month or so later, my daughter almost has to be hospitalized with the flu. A few days later, without any contact with her, my wife came down with the flu. They both told the doctors they had taken the flu shots. Their response was that the flu they had wasn't anticipated so it was not contained in the flu shot.