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Kentucky - Oldham County schools goes virtual for next 3 days du
e to illnesses
By: Steve Date: February 3, 2025, 3:04 pm
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SUMMARY - Schools in Oldham County, Kentucky, are moving to
virtual learning (called "NTI" in the article which stands for
"Non-Traditional Instruction") for the next three days (February
4 through February 6) due to a spike in illnesses.
COMMENTARY - In the article, they give some tips in order to
curb the spread of illness. I guess that masking didn't make the
cut for some reason... I mean, if only we had some studies to
gauge the effectiveness of wearing N95 masks in order to prevent
the spread of respiratory illnesses... ::)
LINK -
HTML https://www.wlky.com/article/oldham-county-schools-nti-tues-wed-thurs/63654710
HTML https://www.wlky.com/article/oldham-county-schools-nti-tues-wed-thurs/63654710
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Re: Kentucky - Oldham County schools goes virtual for next 3 day
s due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 3, 2025, 3:38 pm
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[quote author=Steve link=topic=1885.msg2947#msg2947
date=1738616686]
SUMMARY - Schools in Oldham County, Kentucky, are moving to
virtual learning (called "NTI" in the article which stands for
"Non-Traditional Instruction") for the next three days (February
4 through February 6) due to a spike in illnesses.
COMMENTARY - In the article, they give some tips in order to
curb the spread of illness. I guess that masking didn't make the
cut for some reason... I mean, if only we had some studies to
gauge the effectiveness of wearing N95 masks in order to prevent
the spread of respiratory illnesses... ::)
LINK -
HTML https://www.wlky.com/article/oldham-county-schools-nti-tues-wed-thurs/63654710
HTML https://www.wlky.com/article/oldham-county-schools-nti-tues-wed-thurs/63654710
[/quote]
... I agree with the commentator's perspective. The school sure
has a lot of gall giving advice and tips to people considering
they completely failed to protect their kids from an outbreak
they themselves created. ("OCS also provided these tips to help
parents and students stop the spread of illness")... What a
bunch of know-it-alls. They have an an outbreak and they are
actually giving us advice!? lol
"OCS also provided these tips to help parents and students stop
the spread of illness:
Please continue to stress the importance of FREQUENT HAND
WASHING (hands should be washed with soap and water for at least
20 seconds).
Teach your child to cover their nose and mouth with a tissue
when coughing or sneezing. Allow them to carry their own supply
of tissues. HAND WASHING is advised after the use of each tissue
when coughing and sneezing.
Teach your child the "Cover Your Cough" maneuver recommended by
health professionals. Simply cough into the crook of the elbow
instead of covering the cough with your hands."
Masked Man comment on aforementioned guidelines:
Okay wash your hands because germs just came out of sick
people's faces at any given moment
Okay teach your childeren to cover their faces from sneezes.. uh
well sneezes and coughs are often involuntary spasms making it
somewhat impractical maybe giving the kid 3 seconds or less to
grab a tissue..plus that means every kid has like a tissue out
in the open which is also subject to germs. might as well MASK!
Okay teach your kid to cough in his elbow... c'mon that's bull
then what .. walk around with his inner elbow exposed to his
friends!? Are ya suppose to clean the germs on your inner elbow?
... again wouldn't the mask be smarter!? This stuff isn't going
to work anyway! coughing in your elbow if you are sick!? then go
to lunch and recess everything will be okay!? gimme a break!
School,
There's an outbreak at your school .. your school failed
...don't give advice... this school's advice isn't going to
protect the parents from children who spread this illness to
mommy, daddy and grandparents when they get home. Be humble
school. Why do you think you had an outbreak? because you know
nothing about airborne diseases and how to prevent them
obviously. All we know is that there is an outbreak in flu at
this school and now the school thinks they all know what went
wrong like a bunch of know it alls... a little humility is in
order here for goodness sakes.You are not going to be fast
enough to hold your breath and wash your hands when some child
coughs or sneezes involuntarily into the air.. you people are
not that gifted with superhuman agility and its impossible ...
its all about physics.. your dealing with an airborne
disease..your not going to be able to prevent or kill all the
microscopic entities floating around in the air with hand
washing or blowing into an elbow anymore than you can prevent
Johnny from throwing a spitball or spit wad of paper at Sally
across the room... think about the physics of it. You admit to
understanding half the physics like when people cough sneeze ,
laugh ,shout or even breathe heavy then out of the face comes
droplets and vapors in the air floating around and some of the
droplets get breathed in by others from the air or land on
people and stuff and people touch their faces but you don't seem
to appreciate that time when the droplets are in the air or
right when the droplets shoot into the air.. so shouldn't you
also suggest people who aren't sick cover their face with a
tissue when people around them accidentally cough or sneeze? See
what I'm getting at? This isn't protecting people... at least
suggest covering your mouth with masks if you understand the
principles involved here and the timing of everything. You
people aren't that fast.
Dear teachers,
What about when kids laugh? According to science these germs
come out of the face when people laugh .. are you teachers going
to cover your mouth too ? Wear a mask its easier and a mask is
already in place before you laugh , cough, or sneeze
involuntarily.. stop blaming the students and the parents for an
airborne disease and your reason for not masking if you believe
in covering the face when sneezing, coughing, shouting or
laughing. I f you believe in covering your face when sneezing
coughing laughing or breathing heavy then keep it covered(with a
mask)! Its your logic ..your reasoning to cover a sneeze and a
laugh then keep it covered!Don't give advice you aren't willing
to take and follow yourselves... wear a mask if you believe kids
should cover their faces while sneezing , coughing or laughing
involuntarily.
I read the article and that's essentially what the school is
saying is that its the parents fault for not teaching kids and
its the kid's fault for not covering up their sneezes and
coughs enough and washing hands enough ... so teachers, I say
practice what you preach and keep your face covered too by
wearing a mask if you believing in covering faces while people
sneeze cough or laugh.. its only fair.
I give this school an F for pretending to know something about
airborne diseases and blaming involuntary coughing and sneezing
on it and yet not recommending people wear masks to prevent the
droplets from entering the air as they have suggested is the
problem. To think that all is needed is that parent teach their
kids cover their face with a tissue when they cough or laugh or
sneeze into the crevice of part of their body body of clothing
and that is will serves as some sort of protective filter for
germs and protects all the healthy people in the room is nothing
but but wishful thinking and doesn't include any deductive or
scientific basis in reasoning. This school is blaming the
parents for this outbreak. Its just true: An outbreak occurred
at a school and the school implies that people need to wash
their hands more and teach their kids to cover their faces more
when they involuntarily cough, sneeze or laugh. I mean do you
teach children to keep the crevice or fold of clothing they
cough into closed for the remaining part of day? You cough into
your elbows and then keep your arm all folded real tight so as
to trap the germ in there? Is that how ya'll beat an outbreak
maskless? How many coughs are you allowed before you have to
wash your inner elbow crevice, professor? And that keeps
everybody safe!? Is your inner elbow serving like a temporary
n95 mask? Is that your logic teacher? You believe in temporary
or momentary masking just for those special moments like when
one of the forty kids expels a little too much air for your
comfort??
By the way How is coughing or sneezing into the crevice of one’s
inner elbow any different than wiping your nose on your sleeve
and then walking around? I know it deflects the sneeze a little
but to trust the dexterity of a child ability to deflect an
involuntary sneeze when people are sitting right next to him..
its ridiculous to think this act alone would prevent an outbreak
for 6 hours a day when someone is in a room sick around 40
other kids... its just not foolproof advice. Sneezing or
coughing in a mask is probably dangerous enoug with that stuff
shooting out the sides.
Wear a Mask around these know it alls and keep your distance...
trust in physics and trust me,
The Masked Man
P.S.
Pop Quiz for teachers!
Do you understand the principles of airborne diseases? Test your
powers here! in this handy question and answer about airborne
diseases designed for teachers!
Question:
Can you get sick from germs in the air?
Answer:
A range of illnesses—from mild colds to the flu to COVID-19—are
caused by airborne viruses. The COVID-19 pandemic shed new light
on how viruses spread. During the pandemic, scientists learned
that viruses can linger for a long time in the air. In fact,
this may be the main way that many of them infect people.
.
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