Ugh. All of the disruption… all of the expense to families… all of the missed work… for something that is more likely to make the problem worse than better. Stupid government.
Gov. Tony Evers on Friday ordered the state Department of Health Services to close all K-12 schools, public and private, as part of the state’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Wisconsin.
The shutdown will begin Wednesday and run through April 5, though it could be extended, Evers’ office said in a statement.
“Closing our schools is not a decision I made lightly, but keeping our kids, our educators, our families, and our communities safe is a top priority as we continue our work to respond to and prevent further spread of COVID-19 in Wisconsin,” Evers said.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance on closings and cancellations for schools. It said schools, working with local health departments, have an important role in slowing the spread of diseases and that all decisions on closures should be made at the local level.
Among the factors to be considered, it said, are whether there is an infected person in the school or community and whether staff or students have traveled to high-risk areas.
But, it said, closing schools early in the spread of disease for a short time — for example two weeks — “will be unlikely to stem the spread of disease or prevent impact on the health care system, while causing significant disruption for families, schools and health care workers.”
In addition it said it may increase the impact on older adults who are enlisted to take care of children kept home from school.
Here is the actual CDC guidance:
Available modeling data indicate that early, short to medium closures do not impact the epi curve of COVID-19 or available health care measures (e.g., hospitalizations). There may be some impact of much longer closures (8 weeks, 20 weeks) further into community spread, but that modelling also shows that other mitigation efforts (e.g., handwashing, home isolation) have more impact on both spread of disease and health care measures. In other countries, those places who closed school (e.g., Hong Kong) have not had more success in reducing spread than those that did not (e.g., Singapore)
Agreed.
Stupid overreaction.
I fear the precedent this sets. Are we going to abandon life whenever someone makes a big deal about some possible disease in a foreign land?
The public official panic and media hysteria is worse that the disease.
Just yesterday an MPS official made the case for the schools remaining open–in their case, because a substantial number of students get their meals from school, not home.
This will be a mess.
So, instead of trusting local school officials, Evers has decided to close all of them by himself. So, it must be the same conditions in Ashland, Westfield, the Amish communities, Milwaukee and Madison.
Evers is a complete moron.
Evers claims to have not made the decision lightly. I believe him. Probably fair to claim it wasn’t Evers who made the decision at all. So late in the afternoon. On a Friday.
Since Evers is doing stupid things. Here is another suggestion:
We should ban cash. Cash is transferred from person and it puts cashiers at risk as well.
Since we cannot take chances of people spreading the virus, we need to ban cash.
Silence from our local libs about taking away “local control”.
Awful. Just awful.
Teacher’s union probably wanted some time off.
I don’t know about schools down your way, but our local school districts were in constant contact with DPI and CESA.
Nord,
That is not a denouncement of Evers taking away local decision control.
Le Roi, that was the smart thing to do with your schools.
But Evers took their choice away from them.
With 1 broad brush, he just screwed up things for schools, families, employees and the their communities.
He is a complete idiot.
>I don’t know about schools down your way, but our local school districts were in constant contact with DPI and CESA.
Which is not anything even close to “local control” that you spent all of Walker’s governorship lamenting the loss off. Congrats on being the largest and most transparent hypocrite to visit this website. Your mommy is proud of you.
So a decision by Evers, done in coordination with health professionals, CESA and local boards, for the sake of human health and welfare is bad, but the 100+ actions by walker to diminish local control is ok. You guys are top of the line hypocrites. Carry on.
So, you’re sitting there trying to tell us that Evers worked in “coordination” with 446 school boards? Lets not forget every private school in the state?
>health professionals
You mean the ones like the CDC that said “Dont close public schools”? Owen linked to it, you’re ignoring it just to make momma proud. PASS.
Nord,
You ripped Walker any chance you got on this local control issue. Now you let Evers get away with it without a peep.
Hypocrite.
No j, there is no telling you anything . Be a waste of time for anyone to try.
Oh Nord,
You are against local control on huge issues when your crazy guy is in charge.
That makes you a hypocrite on the issue.
Walker never did anything this extreme. Now there is precedent, everytime someone sneezes and liberal media gets worked up into crazy hysterics..
Awful. Just awful.
Le ROI, please inform me. When was there a real or made up emergency, did Governor Walker make a decision by himself that literally affected everyone in the State?
mar:
Read thru the thread again. I didn’t say anything about any emergency. But he did sign 100+ bills in his reign that took away or restricted local control.
Hypocrite.
Wait, I thought Walker dropped a bomb.
“So a decision by Evers, done in coordination with health professionals, CESA and local boards, for the sake of human health and welfare is bad, but the 100+ actions by walker to diminish local control is ok. You guys are top of the line hypocrites. Carry on.”
You’re getting senile Le Roi.
When did Walker do something like this in his career?
And Walker signed the Bill’s, he did with the support of the legislature. He didnt do it unilaterally.
Maybe you do have the virus, Le Roi, your getting delusional.
mar and k:
I didn’t say anything about any emergency, but walker did say “we are broke” (we weren’t) and jammed Act 10 through without any previous discussion during the campaign. And walker could have vetoed any and all of those bills to restrict local control.
And Evers made a decision after consultation with the health professionals school districts and the feds. Far from a unilateral move.
OMG!! He actually did that without prior permission from the unions–who were stealing the capital of the State and her citizens.
Dropped the bomb, that’s the way to treat the citizens and show the donor you mean Bidness! And then there’s the way the WisGOP tried to gut the open records law.
Le ROI just admit you lost another argument making you 0-forever. But you did keep up you perfect streak of never being right.
mar:
Nah, I’ll stick to reality. I’ll let you rule the fantasy world forever.
The store shelves these days look a lot like the store shelves in Venezuela.
Pat,
But unlike leftist, socialist Venezuela, we have good, awesome capitalists restocking like mad to serve all to meet the need.
All socialist do is sit around and do nothing in Venezuela while people starve and you make light of their awful evil with comments like that.
Capitalism is awesome!
In our county in Arizona, we have had no one catch the virus but in the city I live in all the water, toilet paper, baby wipes,paper towels, hand sanitizer, most medicines, most cleaning supplies and rice are out of stock.
Bunch snowflakes in a very conservative area of the nation.
>The store shelves these days look a lot like the store shelves in Venezuela.
Let us know if they’re like that in 6 months, callous Pat. You’re incapable of thought.
>we have had no one catch the virus but in the city
That you know of at this point. Ain’t over yet.
Juvenile Jason,
I stated what the shelves looked like. I didn’t say they were going to be that way long term.
Get a grip child!
>I stated what the shelves looked like. I didn’t say they were going to be that way long term.
Oh so you didn’t have a point when you stated that. Good to know Pointless Pat.
Juvenile Jason,
The point was, the store shelves these days look a lot like the store shelves in Venezuela.
What ever else you want to deduce from that statement is completely up what ever voices are rattling around in your juvenile brain.
Awwww your point wasnt a point after all. Nice of you to make light of a long duration shortage of supplies and goods that are leaving a population starving and dying… Pussy Pat.
Juvenile Jason,
Don’t be such a snowflake.
mar:
Looks like the conservative AZ snowflakes are just as upset by the continued confusing and contradictory statements by 45 and are taking matters into their own hands. Their leader is failing them at a critical moment, and panic sets in.
Pussy Pat, That’s being a snowflake? I thought your team was the hyper-sensitive group that has weaponized acting offended at everything from red hats to public mention of the word America to gender bending non-binary designations.
Go ahead and make jokes while good people starve and die due to bad government.
Pat, the shelves, even in their worse state, is no where close to being like Venezuela. In Venezuela, they are completely bare and people have to go dumpster diving or worse.
Le Roi, those people hoarding either think President Trump is a liberal or they are meth induced tweakers.
mar:
Since you have no clue as to why your conservative AZ snowflakes are hoarding you resort to ad hominem attacks. Mighty mature of you.
Le ROI, since you don’t know the demographics of our city shows once again how uneducated you are.
Since you don’t meet the members of the public in my city like I do shows how clueless you are.
Since you don’t shop in my city and you don’t see the things I see, shows you are just ignorant.
What a trifecta you are: uneducated, clueless and ignorant. You must be so proud of yourself.
Oh no, Leroy knows everything, just ask him.
Juvenile Jason asked, “ That’s being a snowflake?”
Yup!
Yup. But in Venezuela, it’s permanent, and didn’t require a national emergency to get there. Just the Socialist/Communist Gummint!!
Like Bernie’s or Biden’s dream……….
Amazon also seems to have almost everything available in some brand/capacity.
So chill out Pat.
Capitalism works, if leftists stop wrecking it.
>But in Venezuela, it’s permanent, and didn’t require a national emergency to get there. Just the Socialist/Communist Gummint!!
Dumdum can’t grasp that concept. Pat really thinks the point is valid. Poor Pat.
I never knew drawing a comparison in the “appearance” of empty shelves would make people so irate.
No one is irate Pass Pat. We are just trying to be as anal on ensuring you dont spread false facts abd alternative realities as Leroy. Sorry, hes your conjoined twin, maybe he can explain it to you.
Juvenile Jason,
What is the false fact?
Hmmm, “false facts”. Kinda like jumbo shrimp, eh?