24 thoughts on “C-19 Chat Post – January 10 2022”

  2. This is a cut and paste of an article in the Belmontian news from Belmont’s superintendent

    Not sustainable. Please someone tell me why baker and DESE are not budging. This is not an education. This is so far removed from reality that it is past ridiculous. I do not speak to one educator or one administrator who does not say the same thing

    Comment follows …

    “The impact of the staff attendance and staffing levels is a real concern of the district,” Belmont Schools Superintendent John Phelan told the School Committee on Tuesday, Jan. 4 as 72 and 73 staff members were out on Monday and Tuesday respectively. And while praising substitute teachers and district employees for stepping up and filling in, Phelan told the committee the current patchwork approach for cover classrooms “is not sustainable.”

  3. One admin told me that the schools are causing the country to shut down more than when we did shut down. Paraphrased. They are also in good part hurting the economy.

  4. Mayor Wu is asking foe flexibility in remote learning. With any luck there will end up being enough pressure on baker and Riley to get them to smarten up

      1. Thanks Vicki. It’s a wonder a “subscription” wasn’t required to read the article.

        Good for Wu. I don’t always agree with her, but in this case, I hope she can convince Baker and DESE to consider remote learning on a temporary basis. It would be good for the surrounding cities and towns to join in support. I say, a protest in front of the State House if necessary.

    1. Thank you for sharing. As you know, I agree with Faust that we should have instituted some kind of circuit breaker mechanism. Not a lockdown, but strict capacity limits in indoor facilities, schools remote 1 or 2 weeks after the holidays, etc … But, that’s just not going to happen. The Biden Administration is sounding more and more Trumpian and like adherents of the Great Barrington Declaration. It’s a strange world we inhabit. It’s also caused me to no longer have any faith in any politician. I am officially politically disengaged. Forever. I’m not even going to vote anymore. Done.

      I don’t know much first hand about the situation in hospitals other than what I am hearing from my siblings, who are all doctors. They say the hospitals are at or near capacity in their areas: East-Central Vermont, Philadelphia area, and NYC. They say that hospitals stays tend to be shorter for Covid patients than with previous waves, but that there are still many who need ICU beds and are in the hospital for long periods of time. These folks tend to be the unvaccinated, or elderly and at-risk people who haven’t been boosted.

      1. Thank you, Joshua. Very much appreciated. I do like getting the emails from Dr Faust. I don’t quite understand the circuit breaker idea and suspect I may have missed some of the explanation here. But if works as I suspect, it sure makes sense

  9. I think the idea of a circuit breaker comes from the UK. There, authorities envisioned scenarios in which they would institute ways to slow the spread – even it out over time – to reduce the enormous surge and accompanying stress on hospitals. Note, this is not a lockdown per se. In fact, it’s usually much softer than that. Any measure that limits contacts counts towards a circuit breaker. A 1 week school closure, for example. Capacity limits in restaurants. Perhaps closing the bar section. Strict capacity limits of certain indoor venues, such as theaters

    The UK is NOT seeing the kind of surge we are. No surprise. They haven’t had to implement circuit breakers this time around. Our surge is massive and having a detrimental impact on hospital services everywhere. We’re now over 141k hospitalizations and rising. I can’t believe it, but we’ll go over 3,000 deaths a day at some point this week and next. I don’t think the 7-day average will be much higher than 2,000. But still, these are awful numbers. https://twitter.com/HamiltonCain/status/1480556216640315393

    1. That Really Helps and it is what I was thinking but not certain about. My heavens……this is simple common sense. I just don’t get it.

    1. This makes me sick. I was just talking with a cousin of Mac’s who is a proponent of in schools. And I respect that. She is a brilliant woman. But when I mentioned long covid, she didn’t think it was as much an issue for kids.

      I fault our health officials who ARE NOT getting the word out.

      Why????

      1. I have no idea – but clinics for kids with long covid are popping up all over – here’s the one (pediatric long covid clinic) at Yale –

        https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/long-covid-in-kids

        I think they’re opening pediatric long covid clinics in every major teaching hospital now. I guess it’s the modern day prenatal German measles…. It’s clearly going after the kids now.

        1. This is our next generation. I can’t even say we are doing nothing to protect them because our “experts” are knowingly placing them in harms way

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