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With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.
Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday March 14 2020, @12:26AM (5 children)
As far as anyone can tell this coronavirus spread out of Wuhan or the nearby area. The name being useful for indicating where the virus began and as something easy for the public to recognize, compared to 2019-nCoV that was also used. Not sure why 2019-nCoV had to be replaced by Covid19. My bigger viral naming objection is calling the 1918 influenza the Spanish Flu instead of the "F6 Haskell County FluNado" or something equally fun working on the other possibility of origin in Northern China.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:23AM (4 children)
Wuhan ooronavirus is easier to remember than Covid19? So is this SARS? No? Oh, it must be that other coronavirus MERS? No? Oh its different than both of those? How the hell do I know if you just call it a coronavirus?
"Look over there at that vehicle"
"Oh, the car?"
"Yes, is that a Ford?"
"No, it's a car"
"Is that a Chevy?"
"No it's a car"
And by the way, why is it a top Republican talking point to use the inaccurate name for this anyway? Things that make you go: hmmmmm.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @03:16AM
> Things that make you go: hmmmmm
What do you do when you know that you know
that you know you're wrong.
You've got to face the music
You've got to listen to the cosmic song.
- Sun Ra
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:07PM (2 children)
For the same reason we name cars Mustang and Corvette instead of an MD5 hash of all their part numbers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:14PM (1 child)
We're trying to *sell* covid-19?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 14 2020, @01:47PM
More fundamental. Mustang or Corona virus are easily remembered. Covid-19 means nothing to anyone who doesn't know why it's named that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.