I was only commenting on the statement that we will see the effects of this in the future. We all know there are parents that think school is for suckers and that ideology rubs off on the kids. Those kids do hinder the ones who want to learn as well.
Nontraditional learning is just as good, if not better, than conformed classroom settings. The parents that find an importance in education will keep their kids learning and growing no matter their situation, just as Dannyboy is. There wont be any decrease in ability or production down the road from this. Kids and parents that value education will always find a way to have it and kids and parents that give it no value will not, no matter the circumstances. That won't change.
Personally, virtual schooling gives me more involvement over what they are learning, and how. If kids are in class all day I can see what is going on and getting in touch with teachers isn't always the easiest, depending on the teacher/school. At home, I can have them set up so I can hear what is said/done in the background and supplement where needed. I can also tell which subjects they are losing interest in and I'm able to counteract that by turning them fun and Interesting again with extracurriculars. This is all stuff I would not see on a daily basis and, although it takes a little more work, it will be more fruitful in the long run.
For the past week or two, New York is experiencing an uptick of COVID cases. I am wondering how worse will the second wave be? I see that COVID will be no longer a concern by Spring of next year.
We are slowly learning if this year's changes are permanent. If work --for the lucky among us--will remain from home. If we will visit the grocery store less but spend more. If we will find wearing a mask on the metro to be just part of life. If shaking hands and embracing will become less common. If most of your daily interactions will occur via video conference (rather than in person).
"Five years' change in six months" is a common slogan for the pandemic. The disruption has upended lives in jobs lost and relatives who live alone or perhaps died without saying the right goodbyes.
Yet permanently severing ties with January is not necessarily a bad thing, psychologists say. The danger comes from hankering for normalcy again, rather than getting on with working out how to deal with whatever is ahead."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/30/health/back-to-normal-bias-wellness/index.html
An important to remember that healthy young people can die from this disease too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appalachian-state-student-chad-dorrill-dies-covid-19/
If it is to be pretty much gone before the schoolyard is out, either a vaccine must be a lot more effective than any virology is expecting, or the population has to be already vastly immune. I hope you are right and we can move past this quickly-for all of our safety and sanity.
I think this will have to hinge on whether a reliable test can be developed and efficiently deployed by which each person can find out if they are immune. Otherwise, we can't risk going going back to normal only to find out that oops! you-and-you-and-you are still not immune and come down with a severe case of the virus, or a friend's elderly grandfather is not immune and family members pass it on to him, etc.
...finding shed viruses in sewage almost a year before it started...
This is very interesting to me. Not that they found shed viruses, but that they found them almost a year before this mess started. I may have mentioned this before, but I had some kind of respiratory disease that - now that I think about it - matched many of the Covid-19 symptoms, but I had it in January-February of 2019. Several of my colleagues at work had the same thing in the same time period, and it took nearly six weeks for the lung issues to go away after "recovering". It was just written off as some unknown flu at the time.
Me too, back in October 2019, I had a strange pneumonia-like illness with fever that felt very different from any cold or flu I'd ever had. Took me about 2 months to recover. However, I know for a fact that I did not pass it on to my elderly mother even though she came to visit while I was sick. I've heard talk in the research community of a possible mutation that happened roughly in the late Nov, early Dec 2019 timeframe that suddenly made covid-19 far more contagious.
My husband and I live on the Outer Cape and were in New Orleans the week before Mardi Gras. Upon return, Paul got sick first with a sore throat, fatigue, headache, fever for one day, then a bad cold. I followed several days later with all symptoms except for sore throat. Long story short, after 9 weeks of struggling with severe asthma, I was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. Our local understaffed health care system refused to give us Covid tests. Although, two psychics have told me we didn't have Covid. Would be wonderful to know for sure, though. I suppose now after my first official psychic excursion with the Read the Future night, I can find out for myself! Stay well, everyone.
@earthangel Sounds like it was covid, given the timing, the symptoms and especially the pneumonia. By now it may be too long ago to get an antibody test although you could try for one. A close friend of mine who is 31 years old was down in that region during that time period and his entire band got what they all felt was covid - everyone sick for a week, shortness of breath, fever and one friend of the band who was with them ended out being sick for three months.
There are calls for the Speaker of the House to self isolate because of succession issues. Both Pence and Trump have being exposed to the virus from Hope Hicks. The President and First Lady are in quarantine ( a first).
Hearing that being said live on tv by a doctor regarding the Speaker of he House was chilling.