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Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 6, 2025, 12:28 am
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SUMMARY:
OLDHAM COUNTY, Ky. —
An uptick in illnesses has Oldham County Schools moving to
virtual learning the next three days.
According to the district, on Monday alone, they had 1,700
students, 200+ staff, and 15 transportation employees absent due
to illness.
LINK:
HTML https://www.wlky.com/article/oldham-county-schools-nti-tues-wed-thurs/63654710
"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 side remark on aforementioned guidelines:
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 were part of or possibly
created.
uh does the mask exist!? Does anybody here recognize the mask as
a medical safety device that has been proven to be useful for
quite some time in history and all cultures in fighting germs?
Hello!? Anybody in there? let's acknowledge the mask does indeed
exist as a legitimate medical safety tool. It has a filter and
filters out hazardous particles not just in the medical world
around germs but also is used for filtering out dangerous
particles in work occupational world such as asbestos, harmful
smoke particles and there are even masks to prevent people from
inhaling fumes that paint your car etc. This should be part of
education knowing the tools that are available in this world and
the mask has definitely proven its work as a legitimate tool
and weapon against breathing in harmful particles. I don't
understand the denial of its existence and its sole function as
a legitimate medical tool and device.
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.
Its only fair to at least acknowledge that a tool/device exists
in reality such as a safety mask and its primary function is to
prevent one from breathing in harmful particles and has been
used with a degree of success. It is a legitimate option for
people to use and protect themselves with..lets at least bring
it to the public's attention and make the safety mask an option
for people to choose by first acknowledging its existence and
the sole function this device was designed for.
...with 1,700 students, 200+ staff sick, you have nothing to
lose by acknowledging masks exist to filter out harmful
particles and might be helpful or useful to prevent airborne
illness by those that choose to wear them.
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Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Data Report Date: February 6, 2025, 8:15 am
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I will be moving this to the school illness tracking thread.
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Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 6, 2025, 12:42 pm
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Evidently some of my main viewpoints about making masks at least
a viable option for those in schools that chose to wear one is
not shared by the CDC either. It would be at least nice for a
Center of Disease Control to recognize the safety mask as being
a real entity and contribution to the sciences considering many
scientists made use of the safety mask while handling and
studying many of these diseases that were studied through the
electron microscope. Its hard to believe that not even the CDC a
center of diseases control would not pay homage to all the
amazing discoveries made while scientists protected themselves
through this device called the mask that made it all possible to
study germs closely and safely by scientists.
It would be smart for schools and CDC's to at least be
soupourtive of a device that protected their own scientists
over the ages and to be soupourtive of students and people who
chose this very pragmatic means of protecting themselves with
the mask.
All I want is establishments to give people the choice and make
it legal and protect those who chose to mask just like there are
provisions like safety ramps for handicap people.
Nowhere in this following document is the Mask even mentioned
for all the work that has been done behind one on the CDC's
behalf...To not mention the mask's value in this day and age is
really an act of anti-masking.
SUMMARY
Everyday Actions for Schools to Prevent and Control the Spread
of Infections (no mention of Masks as if masks are but a figment
of the imagination in the world of scientific discovery and
medical practices)
LINK (I do not agree for lack of Mask acknowledgment in the
following link):
HTML https://www.cdc.gov/orr/school-preparedness/infection-prevention/actions.html
I'm not asking schools or the CDC to force people to wear masks
but I would like to see some masks on the table along with their
advice of sneezing into the crevice of one's arm to prevent the
spread of airborne disease. Give people a choice and a chance to
mask and not let them suffer social consequences for having
chosen the mask as a viable means of protection.
To not include this tool called the mask when discussing the
various ways of protecting one against airborne diseases is just
downright blasphemous especially for educators and medical
experts. Dangerous particles are dangerous particles... it would
be equally fallacious and ludicrous to not mention the word mask
around people who spray-paint cars for a living. We don't let
people go maskless in the occupational world around dangerous
particles why don't we at least make the mask more socially
acceptable for schools?
Sorry about my long winded speech about Masks but of course:
I must live up to my name, ;)
I'm a masked crusader and a crusader for masks. I jump right in
there when I think masked people's rights might be be violated,
neglected, or ignored by society,
I can't help but be in shock by the omission and lack of mention
about masks by CDC and Schools considering the multitude of
diseases on the scene as we type this including the insidious
tuberculosis (the greatest killer disease of all time so far
already in at least a couple states not to mention influenza
the flu that are wreaking having on people's life in a couple
states not to mention novel diseases which are still relatively
new to us such as covid... I can't believe the omission of the
safety mask as suggestion to the general public's as a viable
feasible pragmatic solution in protecting themselves against
dangerous microscopic entities for the time being.
The Masked Man
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Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 6, 2025, 2:41 pm
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NOTE TO MODERATOR: This comment has turned into a lengthy Masked
Man Essay on schools in general and the CDC so I might turn
this reply into a topic of its own and stick it under
MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSIONS at some point.... When you move this
topic to 2025 illnesses in schools Feel free to either leave my
comment in if you feel it is helpful commentary or leave it out
as you see fit. Thank you for your work! :)
#Post#: 3033--------------------------------------------------
Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 6, 2025, 6:51 pm
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[By the way I think schools have cancelled classes
approximately(not sure if my counting is exact) twenty one
different states since the beginning of the year so far for
what its worth all over the USA not concentrated in any
particular region of the country.
There were many schools in certain states that closed like a lot
of schools in Tennessee and several closing in many of the same
states occurred . Its interesting to someday map out which
schools are having problems and it would be interesting to see
if hospitals in that area reflected the same illness spikes...no
doubts some of the same demographic spikes in illness should
show in the community the schools are in...you'd think the
parents would also get ill]
#Post#: 3034--------------------------------------------------
Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Data Report Date: February 6, 2025, 7:47 pm
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[quote author=Masked Man link=topic=1898.msg3028#msg3028
date=1738874512]
NOTE TO MODERATOR: This comment has turned into a lengthy Masked
Man Essay on schools in general and the CDC so I might turn
this reply into a topic of its own and stick it under
MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSIONS at some point.... When you move this
topic to 2025 illnesses in schools Feel free to either leave my
comment in if you feel it is helpful commentary or leave it out
as you see fit. Thank you for your work! :)
[/quote]
Go for it and do what you want!
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Re: Oldham County schools using NTI next 3 days due to illnesses
By: Masked Man Date: February 9, 2025, 11:50 pm
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So more thoughts come to me as I see all these schools close.
Its natural for schools to close from time to time because of
the new challenges society faces with illnesses. This should be
expected and and accepted. Although we weren't raised this way,
there is nothing unnatural about being afraid or traumatized
after a life altering illness such as covid.. or a close call
with death as the body is attacked by various illnesses such as
airborne diseases.
There's no need to deny the very real and even useful trauma
that illnesses and and suffering brings us. It seems more than
reasonable for most people to take precautions and learn from
such pain and suffering and even from close calls with death as
illnesses threaten us. Therefore I think we should learn from
the experience and modify our educational institutions (and
other institutions) to reflect this reality.
What am I talking here? I am talking a back up plan which
require mere habits and customs that we adopt. This simply
altering one's behavior or modifying ones behavior until it
becomes 'easy' and feels good and natural. We seek what is good
and avoid what is bad in the face of today's challenges and
realities.
We make it a law that certain store must have wheelchair access
ramps in the US for the same reason we should accommodate those
that have been stricken with the latest challenges such as covid
and of course we should modify schools and businesses to prevent
contagious illnesses so that we can stay open.
As I mentioned earlier a comfortable setting in school for
those that mask should be be encouraged and supported in such a
way those people that mask are respected by their peers and the
school settings and environment should be set up to support the
masked personal space, boundaries , and needs just like there
are ramps for wheelchairs and just like their are seatbelt laws
for people.
With most of these schools that close another thing I notice is
besides a lack of a plan for those that might want to attend
school masked is simply a lack of a back up plan such as remote
and distant learning. Ive seen it at a handful of schools which
is good... some schools say "we will still do assignments and
work online from home while going to school in person is out"
... this is excellent when schools do remote and distant
learning!
So I think making schools safer where students are "allowed and
encouraged and even rewarded to mask and even have greater
boundaries between one another and a support system amongst
themselves to be safe is smart and teachers and staff should
have the same. Teachers who want to specialize in teaching from
home and teaching students remotely and distantly should be paid
more because it is in our best interest to develop in these
directions and we have those capabilities nowadays.
The electron microscope and the wastewater and the study and
communications are telling us and relaying to us what our
challenges are and that there are microscopic entities involved
and just like knowing what to wear for the weather that day...
... its all about backup plans. If what we are doing ceases to
work or we keep getting burnt with outbreaks we simply need to
adapt and adopt new ways of doing things that are safer. We need
to change our behavior and truly leave some of the past ways
behind. We need to transform our schools and with the amazing
technology we do have. We do have the ability to study and share
remotely obviously or wouldn't be able to convey these ideas
online as I am.
We must take advantage of the technology we do have such as
online communications to keep one another safe as well as to
share and socialize and to simply survive new challenges society
is facing such as outbreaks and illness threats. They didn't
have online technology and tools like they have today. In the
past societies crumbled from the plague in ancient times.. we
don't have to do things the same as in Roman times or in times
of early 1900's.
We can modify our lives and still be comfortable and still
survive the current outbreaks and the next outbreak and manage
and maintain our lifestyles if we just change our habits and
cultural customs a little here and there to reflect what todays
challenges are up to nowadays.
These modifications and precautions in life aren't a hindrance
to happiness they are part of being happy because the habits
make things better and provide us with security , safety , &
health which happiness depends on ..
...these are merely habits and customs that society adopt....
Once a habit is developed it feels good and is natural. :)
The Masked Man
P.S. so much new technology is available to take advantage of to
replace face to face interaction that is not being taken
advantage if.. for instance identification process.. why are
people using driver's license when they have fingerprint scan
device phones and whenever people make transactions they always
scan cards and use cellphones so its really not an issue since
we are already scanning things in front of one another.. Why
should identification be a concern for us masked people when
fingerprint scanning is right there on everybody's phones and
its much more accurate anyway and probably faster and less
problematic than drivers licenses?
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