Nearly One-Third Of Florida Children Tested For COVID-19 Test Positive

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

How can Florida schools open next month with these stats???

Nearly One-Third Of Florida Children Tested For COVID-19 Test Positive

FL Health Dept. COVID 19 Cases: Pediatric Report less than 18 y.o. -dated 7/10/20

• # Tested: 54,022
• # Negative: 37,225
• # Positive: 16,797
• # Hospitalized: 213
• # Deaths: 4
• # Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) case: 13

Coronavirus: characteristics of cases in pediatric Florida residents <18 years old.pdf

[toomuchbaloney]

Can schools be opened?

Sure, they can be opened. Would that be safe? It doesn't seem like the president and some governors care.

[Guest1142305]

Based on those numbers it’s a 1.2% hospitalization rate and a 0.02% death rate for positive children. If those numbers hold, that would be a lot of hospitalizations and somewhere around 1000 deaths for the 4.3 million or so 0-18 year olds in Florida.

That’s actually pretty bad. Ugly. Way worse than the flu, but way better than the adult death rate.

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

My child is signed up for Florida virtual school next year. The government can take their open schools idea and shove it as far as I’m concerned. Apparently I’m not the only one. The wait time on the phone was 4 hours last week. I was told many families are converting to online since the public officials have their heads up their behinds

[toomuchbaloney]

1 hour ago, NurseSpeedy said:

My child is signed up for Florida virtual school next year. The government can take their open schools idea and shove it as far as I’m concerned. Apparently I’m not the only one. The wait time on the phone was 4 hours last week. I was told many families are converting to online since the public officials have their heads up their behinds

The DeVos and Trump families of the world aren't terribly concerned...they'll just hire private teachers.

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

8 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

The DeVos and Trump families of the world aren't terribly concerned...they'll just hire private teachers.

Honestly I don’t give a rats behind which party line is pushing for what. This whole thing has been a complete mess from the beginning-Which I don’t think we will ever really know when this started-I’m just a nurse who gets to go through grade school again and work full time-just loving what’s ahead for the next several months (sarcasm). My child is not going into a cesspool in a state that pretty much caught on fire with this thing-we cannot just wave a magic wand and wish it away.

[toomuchbaloney]

4 hours ago, NurseSpeedy said:

Honestly I don’t give a rats behind which party line is pushing for what. This whole thing has been a complete mess from the beginning-Which I don’t think we will ever really know when this started-I’m just a nurse who gets to go through grade school again and work full time-just loving what’s ahead for the next several months (sarcasm). My child is not going into a cesspool in a state that pretty much caught on fire with this thing-we cannot just wave a magic wand and wish it away.

Honestly, you should care. We should all care, IMV. Voter apathy and ignorance has resulted in cesspool states, caught on fire with an incompetently managed national health crisis. We all know that this country can muster a better response to a national emergency, we've done it before. We've simply never had a president or administration as inexperienced, incompetent, and corrupt in charge of the public health. If we continue to make excuses rather than confront the realities of our rather dire circumstances, our economy and the public health will suffer needlessly. Our public education will suffer needlessly.

We should care if the federal government actually supports public education or would prefer to make it a portion of the department of labor, IMV. We can do better. We need to invest in the things that make us healthy and smart as well as the things that make us feel secure. It matters. In my opinion.

[Purple036, LVN]

Hello everyone coming to you from Texas. At this time we are scheduled to reopen our school district in mid August with the option of face to face or virtual per parent choice. At this time our COVID rate is high and I am especially nervous for when school starts. Viruses spread like wildfire in schools and for us to go back especially face to face I am concerned we will definitely have a huge increase of COVID positive cases and end up back where we were in March/April.

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

15 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Honestly, you should care. We should all care, IMV. Voter apathy and ignorance has resulted in cesspool states, caught on fire with an incompetently managed national health crisis. We all know that this country can muster a better response to a national emergency, we've done it before. We've simply never had a president or administration as inexperienced, incompetent, and corrupt in charge of the public health. If we continue to make excuses rather than confront the realities of our rather dire circumstances, our economy and the public health will suffer needlessly. Our public education will suffer needlessly.

We should care if the federal government actually supports public education or would prefer to make it a portion of the department of labor, IMV. We can do better. We need to invest in the things that make us healthy and smart as well as the things that make us feel secure. It matters. In my opinion.

I voted-didn’t have the person I wanted on the ballot-but I still voted. Things are too politicized. Everyone wants to argue, place blame on one another-no one offers a viable solution. Everyone knew this could happen some day and NO ONE prepared. We have known for decades. Just kicked the can down the road to deal with it when it happened. Well, now it’s here. We have an airborne superbug and we are just as unprepared as we were 30 years ago. Right or left sided-both have failed us miserably. Maybe it’s time to stop having “parties” all together and focus on solutions-because no one seems to have a reasonable or responsible one to offer.

[toomuchbaloney]

1 hour ago, NurseSpeedy said:

I voted-didn’t have the person I wanted on the ballot-but I still voted. Things are too politicized. Everyone wants to argue, place blame on one another-no one offers a viable solution. Everyone knew this could happen some day and NO ONE prepared. We have known for decades. Just kicked the can down the road to deal with it when it happened. Well, now it’s here. We have an airborne superbug and we are just as unprepared as we were 30 years ago. Right or left sided-both have failed us miserably. Maybe it’s time to stop having “parties” all together and focus on solutions-because no one seems to have a reasonable or responsible one to offer.

That's not true. There was preparation. Bush prepared. Obama added to that preparation. We know now that the Trump team ignored the pandemic briefings during the transition or those who attended no longer work for a Trump. We know that the pandemic response team was disbanded by the Trump administration. The evidence simply tells us that Trump's team failed to plan and then failed to follow the play book (based upon previous successes) choosing instead to manage the messaging rather than to manage the spread of the disease.

Maybe it's time to really look at the evidence and facts instead of throwing blame in all directions. There's only one person in charge of the federal government. There's one person running that failed federal pandemic response.

[Guest1142305]

22 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

That's not true. There was preparation. Bush prepared. Obama added to that preparation. We know now that the Trump team ignored the pandemic briefings during the transition or those who attended no longer work for a Trump. We know that the pandemic response team was disbanded by the Trump administration. The evidence simply tells us that Trump's team failed to plan and then failed to follow the play book (based upon previous successes) choosing instead to manage the messaging rather than to manage the spread of the disease.

Maybe it's time to really look at the evidence and facts instead of throwing blame in all directions. There's only one person in charge of the federal government. There's one person running that failed federal pandemic response.

There are three branches of our government, and the current President is only in charge of one of them. To try to act like one man can actually micromanage aspects of response over such a large scale is disingenuous. Presidents are basically figureheads and puppets. They don’t really get that much done. They don’t even have final say on their appointees. The blame can be spread with a broad brush. All branches of our government and all of our leaders have repeatedly failed us.

‘We need term limits.

[londonflo]

On 7/22/2020 at 8:26 PM, damiorifice said:

We need term limits.

We need to end the term of this president for sure!

The President has a great deal of influence on his party's actions in Congress and the President makes the recommendation for the Supreme Court appointees. He sure wants praise for any actions taken by Congress and I believe he sees these "as his actions"

On 7/22/2020 at 8:26 PM, damiorifice said:

We know that the pandemic response team was disbanded by the Trump administration.

Too much damage done. And his praise of myself taking a test designed to assess dementia and turning it into an intelligence is just symptomatic that he has no idea what true intelligence is. I offer this cartoon to make you smile.