Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.
Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of the week after nearly a fifth of its students came down with Covid, strep throat, the flu and other illnesses.
The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.
By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.
If only there was a cheap easy to use way to stop germs from spreading through the mouth and nose of people…
more guns?
stop joking. this is serious. we need more assault rifles.
“More bullet spread to combat COVID spread!”
The only way to stop a bad germ… is a good germ with a gun willing to blast any living cell in its way…
You have been made a moderator of /r/conservatives
Yeah but bleach an ivermectin have been off the shelves since 2020 in Kentucky…
Not picking your nose? Don’t ask these people to do that, it’s too much of a burden.
This has to be fake news. I was told that it was a hoax, and if it wasn’t a hoax, it would be gone in a few days, and if it wasn’t gone in a few days bleach injections would kill it, and if bleach injections didn’t kill it, then horse tranquilizer would kill it, and if horse tranquilizer didn’t kill it…
Sunlight into the body?
Perineum sunning?
If you can’t get outdoors I heard just using a flashlight helps
Oh… I misunderstood, i thought it was a fleshlight…
Mr Rogan is that you?
Schools find out diseases are infectious. Can our top scientists figure out something to do about it? More at 11
The school knows exactly what’s up. They just can’t say “COVID” in a place like Kenfucky without hundreds of parents screaming at the top of their lungs.
They can’t scream when they’re on respirators
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The highest attendance will be in a small district. The lowest attendance will be in a small district.
Smaller samples show more variation.
The Eris variant seems to be massively spreading here in the midwest. I know several people that have gotten it and, unfortunately, the test kits don’t seem as effective in detecting this variant unless you’re significantly along in symptoms. Meaning you’ve been contagious for a while already.
Additionally, Eris appears to have a different method of symptom development where you have somewhat minor cold symptoms after a few days and then it goes away. Then, a week later, you get much stronger and worse symptoms. The latter stage can be detected by the test kits, the former can not.
So you’re contagious for a full week or more before you can even confirm you have Covid, making many people think they have the flu instead. (Which is also something you should isolate for and not expose other people to, but we have a bunch of idiots that live here in the US.)
Which is also something you should isolate for and not expose other people to, but we have a bunch of idiots that live here in the US.
Amen.
I still mask and social distance wherever possible.
For a while I believed we had a shot at stopping covid from becoming endemic, but here we are, with endemic covid, which will never not be a problem again.
Beyond covid though, I haven’t gotten any other kind of sickness. It’s been a nice few years not getting colds 2 to 3 times a year.
Conventional wisdom says plagues come in 3 waves. By my count, we have been through 2, and recent news certainly makes it sound like 3 is imminent.
At the very least, dealing with Covid has significantly improved our medical science and technologies. mRNA vaccines and other innovations will be incredibly useful in the future and are already branching out to be used as treatments against other diseases, even some forms of cancer.
As someone suffering with an illness similar to Long Covid, I too am pleased with all the medical innovations coming.
As conservatives cheer. The only thing conservatives love more than people being sick is people being uneducated.
Conservatism is a plague in desperate need of a cure.
I don’t disagree about conservatives in general but what about this article caused you to post this? The article indicated the district was shifting to online learning, encouraged better sanitation and vaccination.
Some people just have tons of hate in their heart.
Nice, a whole one state over, I’m sure germs can’t travel this far though, we’ll be fine.
“hurr durr it’s just the flu hurr durr”
Need to go back to mandatory masking
Bring back the chin diapers!
I’d be for it if idiots actually understood how to wear them.
I got strep for the first time a couple months ago. That shit is painful as hell.
I went to the emergency room when I was 19 because I couldn’t swallow it hurt so much (they were not very sympathetic).
That’s a really small district. We have elementary schools bigger than that
Cases of covid are very low in Kentucky so it’s likely RSV, Flu, and Strep that are the reason. Those are high.
Many states have minimized or even completely eliminated their Covid reporting systems, so I don’t trust the numbers whatsoever. We know from wastewater treatment and other national measurements that the Eris variant is spreading massively, causing a new large wave of infections to form, since its primary mutation is one that helps it escape immune detection.
I really hope that new booster vaccine aimed at Eris comes out sooner rather than later.
I have closed my eyes. I am now protected from everything!
Hmm, has the fluoride calcified your third eye too?
Reported cases of covid are very low in Kentucky so it’s likely RSV, Flu, and Strep that are the reason. Those are high.
FTFY.
Sidenote: We are seeing an emergence of more virulent strains of Covid, a virus that shut the world down because of its extremely virulent nature. The rest are just as infectious as they ever were.
New covid, spreading through a population where the most vulnerable have already been culled. Increasingly severe long covid effects, lower ICU risk, and much, much more infectious. That is until the strains that are more severe occur, because we all know, the more infectious the virus, the more mutations emerge.
Covid won’t shut things down, that only happened because we didn’t have a defense against it and how bad it would be. Turns out it wasn’t that bad except for select groups of people too stupid to get vaccinated.
Turns out it wasn’t that bad
What planet do you live on…?
Vaccination makes you a carrier, it isn’t magical virus killer juice.
Covid is virulent enough that at endemic capacity, it will mutate too wildly to keep up with vaccination.
We shut down to stop it from being endemic, but idiots couldn’t be bothered to mask up and social distance, so it went endemic.
Mark my words, wave 3 is coming for everyone.
Edit: I need to say I got the vaccinations.
They reduce fatality.
What I’m not jazzed about is endless boosters because of dipshits.
It will not play any impact on normal day to day life.
Tell that to all the people who died. Oh wait…
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It’s not a few hundred people you smooth brain. Millions of people around the world died from it, and millions are still suffering effects of Long Covid. They aren’t all high risk.
Your lack of education is showing.
Get your head out of the sand.
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It’s 2023, we don’t know what or how many mutations are going to occur over the next year, but we know we have made ourselves the perfect petei dishes to maximize the process.
It was quite bad until we 1) got an effective vaccine and 2) the post-Delta mutations became less deadly over-all. If we get another bad mutation things could get ugly again.
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You just refuse to listen to reason.
You are the equivalent of someone so terrified of HIV that they decide that they are going to refuse to be afraid by fucking everyone they can raw dog, while proclaiming “live in fear you losers!”… until you reap the consequences of your idiocy.
Only difference is that this isn’t HIV, and the mutation you create is going to kill everyone.
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