Coronavirus (school, to live in, to move)

[CA4Now]

California’s student COVID-19 vaccine mandate — which has been on hold since April — has been quietly dropped as the state prepares to end emergency pandemic restrictions later this month, public health officials confirmed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the policy in October 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public and private schoolchildren — a move that put the state at the forefront of pandemic safety measures...

...But since then, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus in late 2019 has evolved to a less deadly, more manageable and treatable stage. Although COVID-19 remains widespread — and people continue to die from it — the availability of vaccines and antiviral treatments has lessened the effects — offering relief to what had been an overwhelmed public health system.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...not-be-renewed

[goodheathen]

Watch the funding for informational campaigns (e.g., flyers I've seen) disappear. What infections can do to the brain, for example, swept under the rug. I think some people want to actively hide the dangers of the virus. "Oh, all is good, you're very unlikely to die" - without mentioning possible destruction of health plus quality of life. If this isn't an emergency, then in the regions where the virus transmission hasn't plunged to early 2020 levels, it's a surrender to a new, unsafe normal.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

California’s student COVID-19 vaccine mandate — which has been on hold since April — has been quietly dropped as the state prepares to end emergency pandemic restrictions later this month, public health officials confirmed.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the policy in October 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public and private schoolchildren — a move that put the state at the forefront of pandemic safety measures...

...But since then, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus in late 2019 has evolved to a less deadly, more manageable and treatable stage. Although COVID-19 remains widespread — and people continue to die from it — the availability of vaccines and antiviral treatments has lessened the effects — offering relief to what had been an overwhelmed public health system.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...not-be-renewed

“I wish CDPH would make a bigger statement publicly or Newsom would make a public statement ... to let families know and school districts know that this is no longer going to be an issue for them.”

Of course they won't or then some people would realize the whole mandate was just political posturing to "own" the anti-vaxxers". They made such a spectacle imposing these mandates but very quietly dropped them for the most part.

[jlvs2run]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

https://iqfy.com/unvaccinated-silence/

They knew: why didn't the unvaccinated do more to warn us?
The unvaccinated knew what we didn't. Some of them said too little. Most said nothing at all. A lot of blood is now on their hands.

I did my part, but many people still believe whatever they've seen in the corporate owned media.
Even now that all their BS has been exposed and is easy to see, many people still believe it, even on this thread.

Personally I'm 76, never got a clot shot, never wore a mask, never got tested, never take any drugs,
never go to any doctors, never got sick, never changed any of my usual activities, and I'm one of the healthiest people that I know.

[goodheathen]

Of course, as some have said for almost 3 years, healthy living helps.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/prevent-l...175531478.html
But it doesn't make someone impervious to the virus. Nothing does. Healthy living, smartly using modern medicine, and avoiding excessive exposure is the best combination.

[goodheathen]

An article on lives severely restricted now due to high-risk status. The first half is very informative.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/youre-thi...133005554.html
That's not even counting most elderly folks, some of whom are living normally because they underestimate the risk or are fatalistic. It also excludes what I'll call a mostly moderate-risk group, the perhaps 20% of adults who cannot safely take Paxlovid if infected and therefore with a worse prognosis from the virus, although most such people probably don't know that and aren't taking extra precautions.
Everyone else has a small-but-not-miniscule risk of significant short- or long-term problems.
Things aren't good at all right now.

[sav858]

The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

During the prolonged online learning, some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. Many of these students, while largely absent from class, are still officially on school rosters. That makes it harder to truly count the number of missing students. The real tally of young people not receiving an education is likely far greater than the 240,000 figure calculated by the AP and Stanford.


California alone showed over 150,000 missing students in the data, and New York had nearly 60,000. Census estimates are imperfect. So AP and Stanford ran a similar analysis for pre-pandemic years in those two states. It found almost no missing students at all, confirming something out of the ordinary occurred during the pandemic.

By far one of the worst if not the worst mistakes of the pandemic; closing schools for as long as we did.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by sav858

...By far one of the worst if not the worst mistakes of the pandemic; closing schools for as long as we did.

Unfortunately, we'll never know. We did better than some other states in attempting to reduce spread of the virus.

"Florida’s Covid mortality rate for ages 5 to 14, for example, is more than twice California’s, a difference that seems like it probably has something to do with kids being physically in school in Florida but not in California during the 2020-2021 school year."

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-in...ing-justin-fox

[sav858]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Unfortunately, we'll never know. We did better than some other states in attempting to reduce spread of the virus.

"Florida’s Covid mortality rate for ages 5 to 14, for example, is more than twice California’s, a difference that seems like it probably has something to do with kids being physically in school in Florida but not in California during the 2020-2021 school year."

https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-in...ing-justin-fox

Not really, worse than Florida overall actually when it came to excess deaths.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/writt...lth-insurance/


‘Some counties have significant undercounts’: Data reveals California’s ‘hidden’ COVID pandemic deaths

[goodheathen]

Some children are out of school for more direct reasons, including having post-viral issues themselves or the risk to them or family members is deemed too high for them to be on campus.