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A reminder that most of the studies posted here at redszone and worldwide are not peer-reviewed. Information is trying to be shared world-wide (not good enough for the russians and chinese, apparently) to help everyone find answers faster.
Trump has continually threatened states' federal funding for not re-opening as quickly as he'd like. He's doing it again now with the school opening issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
I’d be surprised if that worked for a Democratic president trying to force Republican governors to mandate masks. I imagine most of them would actually legitimately say “go ahead cut our funding”, it’s the same party whose governors turned down free federal assistance for Medicaid expansion just to stick it to Obama and some stupid ideological grandstanding.Quote:
Originally Posted by NachoMan
Um, that's 2019 data.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Or at least convince him not to go all Grand Theft Auto with a shopping cart again.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteelSD
In-person K-6 is being looked at by local officials all around me, but there's a mountain of issues to overcome (which you alluded to). The most basic problem is we're trying to open most everything else first and that puts the risk factors for schools on steroids. It comes down to priorities, and apparently schools weren't anyone's priority ... just an afterthought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Oh, they dipped for one year two years ago and we are pretending that means something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
LOL, I mean - did you read the article you posted? This article is about how it dipped in 2018 and then increased to a record high in 2019. You know, a year before COVID?Quote:
It's still possible the overdose data may be adjusted slightly when it's finalized later this year. But experts say that progress made in 2018 was short-lived, as the epidemic shifts toward more potent opioids and deaths from other drugs are on the rise.
“It was premature to declare victory in 2018,” said Chuck Ingoglia, president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health, a trade association for mental health and addiction treatment providers. “We still don’t have enough capacity to reach people who need it. Even with the new investments we are still woefully underfunded.”
A year after administration officials struck an optimistic but cautious tone that the tide was beginning to turn on the deadly drug epidemic, they warned on Wednesday that a tough fight lay ahead.
Thanks for posting the self-own. I laughed.
Apparently our kids' school is planning a "pod" system where everyone goes to school physically every day and stays with their pod. If anyone in the pod or their family gets Covid, the whole pod is out for two weeks. If anyone in the pod or their family is symptomatic and getting tested, the whole pod stays out until the symptomatic person's test comes back negative.
Our kids go to Catholic schools, but we've made the decision to sign our kids up for our local public school district's e-academy for 2020-21. I think the plan above will be a debacle and we'll all end up online anyway. May as well go with the solid, well-established program that has been doing online school for years instead of what our normal school can cobble together at the last minute.
Read the article. The uptick for 2020 is mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by M2
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Read the article. The uptick for 2020 is mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedTeamGo!
“And things are only likely to get worse as deaths spike in 2020. There was a roughly 11.4 percent year-over-year increase in overdose deaths between January and April, according to an analysis released by the White House drug office last month.”Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
I'm currently playing a game of: is it the common cold or is it COVID?
Off to get tested. Stay safe, everyone.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...se-deaths.html
“It looks as if 2020 will be even worse. Drug deaths have risen an average of 13 percent so far this year over last year, according to mortality data from local and state governments collected by The New York Times, covering 40 percent of the U.S. population. If this trend continues for the rest of the year, it will be the sharpest increase in annual drug deaths since 2016, when a class of synthetic opioids known as fentanyls first made significant inroads in the country’s illicit drug supply.“
“But as weeks turned to months and people remained isolated, he and others said, the lockdown began to do more harm than good for many who struggle with addiction.
“Social isolation has always been a huge component of drug overdose risk,” said Traci Green, an epidemiologist at Brown University who studies drug abuse and addiction. “So much of what we’ve been trying to do has been completely unraveled.”“
From the NYT. Self-own your reading skills.
I did read the article. The 2020 data mentioned was from the first few months of the year when we weren't locked down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
It includes up through April. That’s a month a half of lockdown. And a Brown epidemiologist believes social isolation played a role and will continue to. I see no reason why it wouldn’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by M2
You’re arguing with addiction experts at this point. Have at it. I just post the articles.
Through April? You mean one month into COVID in the US and the 4th month of the year? Well, color me wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
The fact is that it is speculation and a FACT is that OD was already increasing from the dip in 2018. In fact 2019 was the worst year on record. Pretty obvious speculation that it would continue to increase in 2020 COVID or not. I’ll tell you what is reckless speculation: simply blaming the increase in 2020 on COVID lockdowns.
Like I said: when ice cream sales increase so does the murder rate. Clearly ice cream is at fault for murders.
My reading skills are fine.
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For the record: addition expert is absolutely right and we should listen to anything they say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Epidemic and viral experts: liars with an agenda
Got it.
It's the Willie Greene of reports, all SeptemberQuote:
Originally Posted by M2