Pandemic or Dem panic?
Michigan's liberal Democrat (excuse the redundancy) Governor has closed all primary, elementary and secondary schools - public, private, and boarding - in her state for three weeks, ostensibly to stop the spread of Covid-19. For the next few weeks you'll find these kids at movies, playgrounds, malls, and other venues where they can interact with little supervision, while working parents scramble to find sitters, activities, relatives, friends or any other means to deal with loose kids.
Our governor (can't stand this one) called schools "essential services". Why? Because all the lefties are arguing that since health care providers and first responders have kids in these schools and to close the schools would mean those people might not have a free daycare option. ...."Yeah, sure. Keeping them crowded in classrooms will kill thousands. And, yeah sure - the schools might risk losing all that tasty federal funding for empty seats. But...they're only kids...so F&%k em!" I was glad the President got more involved and woke some people up a little. It's like the lefties arguing that the parents won't feed their kids lunch so everybody must be put at risk. - Idiocracy
My wife is a stay-at-home mom because I work my ass off.
At least leaving the closing choice to school boards is a less odious option than commanding it from the Governor's Mansion.
A decade ago, during the H1N1, one of our employees -- a 26 year old athletic woman went on a weekend camping trip; She called in sick on Monday. She was in the hospital the next weekend and gone two weeks later.
With all the modern medicine we have, if your lungs fill with fluid there is very little that can be done for you. We can give you IV fluids, but oxygen has to get in through your lungs.
Now, I don't know how bad this will be and hope it is overblown, but it is certainly possible to have a significant portion of the population die from a pandemic virus.