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In response to ""There is nothing Americans can do to save public education right now." -- (link)" by znufrii, silly old man

Our school is announcing plans tomorrow. The parent group has been a shitshow all weekend. The icing on the cake was last night when people were -- (edited)

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jul 13 '20, 06:22

saying that the school should look to what Harvard is proposing with testing of students every 2-3 days. Quite a few parents immediately chiming in that they would refuse to have their kids tested...

I know I posted here recently about my own reluctance to get tested which admittedly was selfish and more about the inconvenience to myself and family if we had to be quarantined as a result. I do appreciate the irony here but all the discussions here about it really opened my eyes. My stress level about this all is steadily climbing (not school, COVID in general)

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It seems unreasonably cost prohibitive to test everyone within the school system ever 2-3 days. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 06:42 5
- It is what Harvard proposed for returning students. Guess we can throw trillions around but can't get funding to test students returning to school... -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 06:53 3
  - Until testing becomes so readily available it’s as on-demand as a lipid screening, I can’t see the entire nation testing its school system that much. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 07:12
  - Harvard is the #1 richest university in the US. -- nm - loosilu Jul 13, 06:58
  - Airlines are people too oblik (and they donate to politicians) -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:58
- Not to mention enough wriggling to shift the earth on its axis -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 13, 06:44
why are people opposed to testing? (My sister expressed similar refusals with her kids but I couldn't get why) - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:26 11
- Because if you don't know, it's not your fault, and if you do know, then you have to do something about it. - Reagen Jul 13, 06:35 6
  - Probably this. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 06:46
  - There's a lot of reasons for it but if there's a scarlet letter stigma attached to it I wonder if people have been contributing to it with holier than - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:37 4
    - One of my realizations during this is that people are in general even less knowledgeable about basic science than I thought possible. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 06:48 3
      - You put it nicely, most are... not the sharpest tool in the shed. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 06:54
      - It's sort of disturbing -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:49 1
        
        "sort of"? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 13, 07:07
- A lot of people think there’s danger in testing. Like risk of exposure, for example. There’s also the conspiracy nuts who think the testing is - mafic Jul 13, 06:32 2
  - The President also wants less testing so less cases reported (that is a US thing only, not sure about Dawson's sister) -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 06:33 1
    - My suspicion is a bit of the oblik reason: doesn't want to have to quarantine if a positive shows up? She DOES NOT want the kids in the house in the - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:35
- Becuase people are selfish, ignorant assholes. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 06:27

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