'Recipe for disaster': As COVID rises, few Kansas City area schools heed expert advice

[pstokely]

many school board members may be in favor mask mandates but they lack balls with school board races usually low profile low turnout off year elections

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/education/article252902853.html

"Less than a month before the start of the new school year, as COVID-19 cases are surging and hospitals are turning away patients, few Kansas City area districts are heeding expert advice on opening classrooms safely.

National and local health officials urge them to at least require unvaccinated students and staff to wear masks, worried that outbreaks could lead to more school closures. The highly contagious delta variant combined with students returning to school unmasked is a “recipe for disaster,” Dr. Angela Myers, division director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy, told reporters this past week.

But so far, only Kansas City Public Schools and the Kansas City, Kansas, district have said they plan to follow that guidance. The rest of the districts in the region have either made masks optional or are still undecided."

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. Great. Lots of people on the Neighborhood site are

still making fun of people that are concerned.

It's disappointing and dangerous.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. I have had to quit my job because of this.

I can’t keep babysitting my grandgirls, if one of them is in person school. I have no desire to be sick all year.

[nycbos]

3. I have a goal to go to all 30 MLB stadiums.

Maybe about a month and a half ago I thought about going to KC to see the Yankees play the Royals to cross another stadium off my list, and pay visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum which I have wanted to do for a very long time. I am glad I decided not to go at this time.

[Hugin]

4. Heck, they're having a fair.

Because, some guy talked to a person who knows some people on FB posting they think it's safe.

Real, sciency like.

[Marthe48]

5. in 2018, my grandson was sick

He caught a respiratory bacterial infection that made him really sick. He spent almost 10 days in Columbus Childrens' Hospital, with a drainage tube IV antibiotics, and on O2. The drs. isolated the bacteria and it was some obscure strain. My poor little fella was so sick. He had to spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day there. Even after they removed the tube and he got to go home, he had trouble with the area where the tube was. He played basketball and got hit right there and almost collasped from the pain. He still gets winded easily. He has scar tissue in his lungs and the dr. thinks it is permanant. He was 9 when he caught this illness, and it took him YEARS to regain his stamina, and security. This is the fisrt summer he has gladly participated in sports. I'm just grateful he survived and hope he has made a full recovery.

I already don't know how people can be so heartless as to allow their elderly loved ones to sicken and die in front of their eyes. I really don't understand the stance of exposing your offspring, the future of our species for Christ sakes, to a disease that is going to make them sick, make them vulnerable, reduce their health, kill them. Wear a mask. Let your kids wear masks. Get the vaccine and when it is okay for your kids to get it, have them get it.