Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

JRPGfan said:

He is right, in denmark we did reopen the schools.

We started with the younger grades, and kept them "social distanced" and carefully, while monitoring infections, reopenend more and more.
We split the younger grade classes, into grouppings, and kept them apart from one another, both in the class room, and outsides while playing.
Takeing in older and higher grades, as infection numbers dropped. And step by step, dropping restrictions, as less and less virus spread is out there. Soon as virus is detected, you close down the "class" and have them back at being schooled online again, until the class is without virus, and once again can gather.

However as the coronavirus is all but gone (250-300 active cases in the entire country), it was possible to have our schools back and running, along with everything else.The "root" of the problem is the virus. Once have have it down to low enough levels, and if your carefull with spread, and good with testing so you have a idea of how things stand, you can go about doing such, in a responsible mannor.

You cannot skip steps, and expect the same outcomes however.
If you have a rampageing outbreak of coronavirus, obviously it doesnt make sense to reopen schools right?

Basically to copy us the USA just needs to:
1) Test twice as many people, as they currently are.
2) get new daily infections down to about ~500 pr day (for the entire country of the USA)

Yesterday we had 10 new cases, and today we had 12 new cases.
US is about 50 times larger than us in population (thus ~500 daily cases).

Then you can re-open your schools, safely.

Also we re good on social distanceing and cleaning, and our schools and classes are more spread out (ei. not all completely back to normal).
Hand Washing / hand sanitizing, face masks.... and spreading out a class, is the safe(ish) way to do things.
Our ratio of students to teachers is differnt too..... I've read in the US they sometimes have 50-60 people in a class room? thats obviously too many.

Opening the schools up soon could be disastrous in the USA

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/u-s-closes-in-on-three-million-covid-19-cases-1.5015667

The U.S. epidemic has also become far younger, with the median age for new cases in Florida fluctuating in the mid-30s, for example. In the greater Phoenix area, the major center of the contagion in Arizona, half are under the age of 35. These young people could in turn go on to infect the elderly or medically vulnerable, which would once more increase the death rate.