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HS that suspended teen who tweeted photo of hallway has 9 COVID-19 cases:
North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, sent a letter to parents Saturday, saying, "At this time, we know there were six students and three staff members who were in school for at least some time last week who have since reported to us that they have tested positive." The letter was published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Most or even all of the six students and three staff members who tested positive could have had the virus before the school reopened on Monday, August 3. As Harvard Medical School explains, "The time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is thought to be three to 14 days, though symptoms typically appear within four or five days after exposure," and "a person with COVID-19 may be contagious 48 to 72 hours before starting to experience symptoms."
[...] As we reported Friday, the school issued a five-day suspension to student Hannah Watters after she posted a photo to Twitter, noting the "jammed" hallways and "10 percent mask rate." The school lifted her suspension after extensive media coverage. One other unnamed student who was suspended for a similar reason also had the suspension reversed, the Journal-Constitution said.
Students attended class in person only on Monday through Wednesday, as the district said it conducted a short first week "so that all of our schools can step back and assess how things are going so far."
Update at 6:50pm ET: North Paulding High School announced Sunday that it has canceled in-person instruction for Monday and Tuesday, August 10 and 11, because of the nine positive cases and "the possibility that number could increase if there are currently pending tests that prove positive." The school said that on Tuesday evening, parents and students will be notified about whether in-person instruction will resume on Wednesday. Remote learning will continue while the school is closed.
Previously:
(2020-08-08) Pupils Who Shared Photos of Packed Corridor of Maskless Georgia Students Suspended
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday August 12 2020, @05:11PM (2 children)
I imagine Iran's economy is doing better now than when they were at the peak of Covid infections. What exactly are you getting at? Iran isn't an example of "let people die to improve the economy"; Iran actually handled it somewhat competently, given the challenges they had with being embargoed. I don't know of any real-life examples of "let people die to improve the economy" actually, but this does seem to be what roughly half of Americans want to do.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday August 12 2020, @05:52PM
Well, assuming you consider them an enemy woth considering at all, they'd be the enemy in my original post that managed the pandemic effectively, and whose economy would recover to pre-pandemic levels much faster than our own, and thus gain a strategic advantage.
But it's not the pandemic that gave them the advantage, it's our own piss-poor handling of it.
I specifically mentioned where to find plenty of examples of "let people die to improve the economy", and how terribly it worked out in the end - the handling of the 1918 flu. And we've apparently learned nothing since then, with much of the population, many states, the President himself, going all in on "just let people die". So we all get to sit back, relax, and enjoy the nigh-inevitable even worse economic damage from that. Yay.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2020, @01:13AM
> I imagine Iran's economy is doing better now
Cool.
I imagine Iran's economy is not doing better now. Now what?