US Georgia Schools Reopen To Packed Hallways And Students Testing Positive For COVID-19 - 'We know the football team has tested positive for covid already.....but we're not actually going to make masks mandatory in school knowing we have infected students'

Georgia Schools Reopen To Packed Hallways And Students Testing Positive For COVID-19

Students in Georgia's Paulding and Cherokee counties went back to school this week, with decidedly mixed results.

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Georgia Schools Reopen To Packed Hallways And Students Testing Positive For COVID-19

Reopened schools in Georgia’s Paulding and Cherokee counties drew negative attention this week after viral photographs appeared to show students packing hallways with little regard for social distancing or mask-wearing.

The most prominent images were taken on Tuesday by a 10th grader in North Paulding High School who posted them on social media and described the hallway situation as severely jammed.

Other viral images showed students from Cherokee County’s Etowah High School and Sequoyah High School standing in close proximity for senior photos with nary a mask in sight.

Prior to schools reopening on Monday, North Paulding High School’s principal, Gabe Carmona, sent a letter to parents alerting them that members of the football team had contracted COVID-19, not specifying the numbers or the severity of their cases.

According to BuzzFeed, Carmona also addressed the viral images on Wednesday, reportedly stating over the intercom that students who publicly criticized the school on social media could face disciplinary action.

Two students — including the 10th grader who posted the images of the crowded hallway — told BuzzFeed they were suspended for sharing photos online, with school administration citing violations of the school’s phone policy and posting pictures of minors without consent as reasons for the punishment.

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A photo taken Aug. 4, 2020, by a student at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, shows students crowding hallways while fewer than half wear masks. (Photo: Handout/AP)

Paulding County Superintendent Brian Otott also addressed the images in a statement, arguing that they were being criticized “without context” and saying the crowds only lasted for a “brief period” when students were transitioning between classes.

“Wearing a mask is a personal choice and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them,” Otott said. “What we will do is strongly encourage all students and staff to wear masks.”

Paulding County schools have both in-person and “virtual academies” available during the fall semester, and according to Atlanta media outlet 11Alive News, 70% of the county’s 31,000 students have returned for in-person learning, with 9,000 in online classes.

A notice on the district’s websites says that while students and staff are encouraged to wear masks during in-person schooling, face coverings will not be mandatory because “the school district recognizes that wearing a face mask is a personal choice for families.”

A reopening plan on the Cherokee County School Board website reveals a similar strategy, with both in-person schooling and a digital learning program in place. Regulations require “all employees to wear face coverings in situations where social distancing cannot be achieved,” while students are “strongly encourage[d] and recommend[ed]” to wear masks.

The plan indicates that the school district “will provide every student with two reusable cloth masks upon request.”

On Tuesday, school officials at Cherokee County’s Sixes Elementary School announced that a second-grader had tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the student’s class of 20 students to undergo a two-week quarantine.

A message from Superintendent Brian V. Hightower said that the district was “going to take positive cases seriously” and shut down schools if necessary.

“We need to fight that good fight together: social distance when we can, and mask up when we can’t; wash our hands, and be kind,” Hightower said. “We are stronger together.”

Atlanta pediatrician Frita Fisher, an advocate of mandatory masks and social distancing in the classroom, told 11Alive News that reopening Georgia schools with shaky social distancing measures and without making masks mandatory for all students was “very frustrating and unsettling.”

“It’s upsetting because we are sending our kids to school knowing that we are putting them at an increased risk for spreading coronavirus among themselves and to the community,” Fisher said.

This story has been updated to reflect that students sharing photos of North Paulding High School’s crowds received suspensions.

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So.... The school knows there are infected students, opens the school anyway and explicitly allows those students to be in school, while not making masks mandatory even for those people they know are infected......all the while suspending people who post proof of people gathering in crowds at said school or criticizing the school

Oh yeah, this will end well. The faculty may as well be wearing tshirts that say 'sue me' on them, cause if it gets around the school and a bunch of kids end up in the hospital parents are going to lose their shit. God help the school board if someone dies

 

[FuckedUp]

Chuck Schumer apparently now wants schools reopened too:

Wait, what

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Close all the schools since they're just Marxist indoctrination centers, where the only thing they teach you is how to pass tests; and open the libraries, where there is a wealth of knowledge (just block all gaming/social media, and YouTube from the computers so that they don't fuck around all day).

 

[Flea Man Marbles]

Ban compulsory education.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

"bro, we need to mandate masks!"
"shut down schools!"
"#lockdown!"
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OP is a maskfag

Not sure if retarded or trolling. You gotta be weapons-grade retarded to think masks don't work.

Young people aren't dying from it. The age stats are out there.

Right, but they still spread it. Schools are generally poorly ventilated and students are going to be in tightly packed rooms. Also their teachers are at risk and many of them are high-risk. Also, some are dying from it. There's also a post-infection condition popping up that's really nasty and life-threatening. It's rare, but there's now a term for it: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932e2.htm?s_cid=mm6932e2_w

 

[FuckedUp]

Ban compulsory education.

Ban assault education.

 

[McGregor]

This is a missed opportunity. Physical school buildings still have a very real requirement, but the nature of that requirement has shifted. We need teaching lab facilities, science classes, we still need people to learn to use tools that won't be available to them in the home environment necessarily. What we don't need is a 'class room'. English class is meaningless. Restructuring schools more as facilities then 'schools' might cut down the cost of maintaining the education system. The real menace is recognizing that school's been a publicly paid daycare for fifty years, and replacing that somehow.

The schools should reopen. Nobody likes COVID-19 and nobody wants deaths. But sometimes what we want isn't what we get. The mortality rate among children is incredibly low, they aren't even the predicted disease vector we thought they'd be. Its time for them to get on with their lives.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

Why are they trying so hard to specifically get me believing that Georgia is a blighted husk of a land after COVID turned every living thing in it to ash? Like why specifically Georgia?

I google it and I get a thousand news articles saying "HUGE INCREASE IN CASES, THE END IS NEAR" "TOTALLY HEALTHY BABIES HAVE BEGUN TO DIE OF COVID IN GEORGIA" "CHARON'S GRIM FERRY SINKS FROM THE SHEER WEIGHT OF THE SOULS OF DEAD GEORGIANS".

Meanwhile I do something craaaaazy like look at actual statistics instead of news articles and I see that Georgia is 25% below the US average for Covid deaths per capita. If you want to panic about the end times, I get it. It feels good to be part of a group, even if that group is a doomsday cult. But how about New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts? Places with five times the deaths of fucking Georgia of all places?

 

[FuckedUp]

Why are they trying so hard to specifically get me believing that Georgia is a blighted husk of a land after COVID turned every living thing in it to ash? Like why specifically Georgia?

I google it and I get a thousand news articles saying "HUGE INCREASE IN CASES, THE END IS NEAR" "TOTALLY HEALTHY BABIES HAVE BEGUN TO DIE OF COVID IN GEORGIA" "CHARON'S GRIM FERRY SINKS FROM THE SHEER WEIGHT OF THE SOULS OF DEAD GEORGIANS".

Meanwhile I do something craaaaazy like look at actual statistics instead of news articles and I see that Georgia is 25% below the US average for Covid deaths per capita. If you want to panic about the end times, I get it. It feels good to be part of a group, even if that group is a doomsday cult. But how about New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts? Places with five times the deaths of fucking Georgia of all places?

Because Georgia's full of evil conservatives and the others are all Holy Blue States.

 

[Rand /pol/]

Hurr masks work! Masks good!

This is you:

 

[⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛]

open the libraries, where there is a wealth of knowledge (just block all gaming/social media, and YouTube Wikipedia from the computers so that they don't fuck around all day).

Fixed that for you

 

[Lurker]

Not sure if retarded or trolling. You gotta be weapons-grade retarded to think masks don't work.



Right, but they still spread it. Schools are generally poorly ventilated and students are going to be in tightly packed rooms. Also their teachers are at risk and many of them are high-risk. Also, some are dying from it. There's also a post-infection condition popping up that's really nasty and life-threatening. It's rare, but there's now a term for it: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932e2.htm?s_cid=mm6932e2_w

jeez, buddy, trying to fight the good fight. too bad this is a&n and some of the people who post here are, well, retarded, and can't grasp things like nuance or giving a shit about other people.

conservatives like whining about California and its stance on spreading HIV being a misdemeanor, but you know... at least you know (or you should know) the people you've fucked that could've given it to you. but with the 'rona, not only do you not know who has it, if a person's asymptomatic, but shit, you probably won't know if YOU YOURSELF have it if you're asymptomatic. and no fucking has to occur for the virus to spread. don't see why they're not bothered by this.

and then the kids come home from school, infect their parents, who then proceed to go to work to potentially infect other people, but I guess it's more important that the kids get an educatio- nah I'm kidding, it's more important that kids have babysitters, because we can't be responsible for, like... parenting our children. that's communism. or socialism. or something. I don't like it so it must be those things.

I get it, though. online learning is great if you have the resources. But if you're poor, or have a single parent who has to work, these resources may not exist for you. You rely on your kids being in a brick-and-mortar school that has everything they need, where they can be supervised, where they can be safe. But with the coronavirus around, sending your kid to school could be a fucking disaster. What if they get sick? What if YOU get sick? Now you can't work. Where are you gonna get money (and I don't mean the fucking pittance that Daddy Trump has so kindly thrown at you)? How are you supposed to survive? I honestly don't know. The fact that situations like these exist is a fucking problem.

but lol whatever just throw those kids to the wolves, I'm sure things will be fine. after all, kids are immune and no child has ever caught or died from coronavirus. and it's not like there's any post-illness effects that we're still only just discovering. Mister Hulk Hogan, sir, this is just a flu, okay. Nothing to be concerned about.

 

[Übertroon]

jeez, buddy, trying to fight the good fight. too bad this is a&n and some of the people who post here are, well, retarded, and can't grasp things like nuance or giving a shit about other people.

conservatives like whining about California and its stance on spreading HIV being a misdemeanor, but you know... at least you know (or you should know) the people you've fucked that could've given it to you. but with the 'rona, not only do you not know who has it, if a person's asymptomatic, but shit, you probably won't know if YOU YOURSELF have it if you're asymptomatic. and no fucking has to occur for the virus to spread. don't see why they're not bothered by this.

and then the kids come home from school, infect their parents, who then proceed to go to work to potentially infect other people, but I guess it's more important that the kids get an educatio- nah I'm kidding, it's more important that kids have babysitters, because we can't be responsible for, like... parenting our children. that's communism. or socialism. or something. I don't like it so it must be those things.

I get it, though. online learning is great if you have the resources. But if you're poor, or have a single parent who has to work, these resources may not exist for you. You rely on your kids being in a brick-and-mortar school that has everything they need, where they can be supervised, where they can be safe. But with the coronavirus around, sending your kid to school could be a fucking disaster. What if they get sick? What if YOU get sick? Now you can't work. Where are you gonna get money (and I don't mean the fucking pittance that Daddy Trump has so kindly thrown at you)? How are you supposed to survive? I honestly don't know. The fact that situations like these exist is a fucking problem.

but lol whatever just throw those kids to the wolves, I'm sure things will be fine. after all, kids are immune and no child has ever caught or died from coronavirus. and it's not like there's any post-illness effects that we're still only just discovering. Mister Hulk Hogan, sir, this is just a flu, okay. Nothing to be concerned about.

Did you just compare the chink flu to HIV? You really think catching the two of them are remotely similar?

Also you talk about getting covid as some sort of disaster, as if school wasn't always a hotbed of nasty diseases like mononucleosis.

I thought we all had agreed upon this that only grandma is at any elevated risk of dying. So just remotely chat with her instead of turning every classroom into remote lectures.

 

[Lurker]

Did you just compare the chink flu to HIV? You really think catching the two of them are remotely similar?

Also you talk about getting covid as some sort of disaster, as if school wasn't always a hotbed of nasty diseases like mononucleosis.

I thought we all had agreed upon this that only grandma is at any elevated risk of dying. So just remotely chat with her instead of turning every classroom into remote lectures.

i'm comparing the outrage between the two, since they're both serious issues, and are potentially fatal. inb4 COVID ISN'T DANGEROUS REEEEE NOBODY EXCEPT OLD AND FAT PEOPLE GET IT REEEEEEE. we all know that isn't true, and the problem is that we do not know enough about the virus or the aftereffects of said virus. for all we know, those aftereffects could also affect people who are, or were, supposedly asymptomatic. in fact i would say that covid is potentially more dangerous due to lack of information. at least we get what HIV/AIDS do. we know how it transmits, we know how to prevent transmission, and we also have ways to treat it (both HIV/AIDS). (also note that i didn't say "cure")

you're right, school is a nasty, filthy, badly ventilated place where many diseases reside. but we know what the fuck those diseases are and what they do and whether or not there are lingering effects of those diseases, and we know how to properly treat them. the same cannot be said for covid19.

it's weird fucked-up that people seem okay with old or fat people getting it, but the and now the kids, oh, but they'll be FINE. (edit: the first sentence didn't make any sense, tried clumsily to fix it while trying to retain integrity of original post) it's not like the coronavirus can permanently damage organs or anything. i'm sure that's just a swell thing to have happen to people at such a young age.

edit: i guess what i'm trying to say, through my incoherent libtard rambling, is that sending kids off to school as though things are completely normal is fucking irresponsible. we have the resources for remote learning, and while there are issues with that that i have mentioned in my post before this one, it's better than THIS.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

Why are they trying so hard to specifically get me believing that Georgia is a blighted husk of a land after COVID turned every living thing in it to ash? Like why specifically Georgia?

I google it and I get a thousand news articles saying "HUGE INCREASE IN CASES, THE END IS NEAR" "TOTALLY HEALTHY BABIES HAVE BEGUN TO DIE OF COVID IN GEORGIA" "CHARON'S GRIM FERRY SINKS FROM THE SHEER WEIGHT OF THE SOULS OF DEAD GEORGIANS".

Meanwhile I do something craaaaazy like look at actual statistics instead of news articles and I see that Georgia is 25% below the US average for Covid deaths per capita. If you want to panic about the end times, I get it. It feels good to be part of a group, even if that group is a doomsday cult. But how about New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts? Places with five times the deaths of fucking Georgia of all places?

Because Georgia only locked down for 2 weeks (like was promised, how dare elected officials keep their promises!).
Therefore Georgia HAS to be seen as a failure. Georgia has to half mountains of dead bodies to justify the lockdowns in any other state.

 

[Lurker]

Because Georgia only locked down for 2 weeks (like was promised, how dare elected officials keep their promises!).
Therefore Georgia HAS to be seen as a failure. Georgia has to half mountains of dead bodies to justify the lockdowns in any other state.

it's weird how you guys are relying on statistics that have to bypass any proper medical authority and go straight to the white house. i'm sure numbers aren't being doctored to make it seem like the cases are fewer than they are. why would someone want to do that? why would someone want to lie about the number of cases? perhaps as a means to reopen the economy so the rich can continue to get richer while everyone else has to struggle to get by? no, surely that isn't the case. surely people value human lives more than the Almighty Dollar, right?

right?

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

it's weird how you guys are relying on statistics that have to bypass any proper medical authority and go straight to the white house. i'm sure numbers aren't being doctored to make it seem like the cases are fewer than they are. why would someone want to do that? why would someone want to lie about the number of cases? perhaps as a means to reopen the economy so the rich can continue to get richer while everyone else has to struggle to get by? no, surely that isn't the case. surely people value human lives more than the Almighty Dollar, right?

right?

I dont know what the fuck you are on about, but I've been basing my opinion off academic studies since April.

Also your post is has more projection stuffed into it than mystery meat in a Taco Bell burrito.

i'm sure numbers aren't being doctored to make it seem like the cases are fewer than they are

That's retarded because less cases makes it look more lethal.
Proving there are exponentially more asymptomatic/weak/mild cases that aren't detected or reported than all the deaths and hospitalizations which are being recorded would prove its not as lethal as people like you are making it out to be.

If you only report 100 cases and all 100 people went to the hospital and 20 people died it looks like Smallpox Mk III.
If you report 1,000 cases and 100 people went to the hospital and 20 people died it looks like a really, really bad cold.

If there were some grand conspiracy to mis-report statistics to favor opening up, then you would think that they would fake it in a way that helps their argument, not hurts it.

 

[Lurker]

I dont know what the fuck you are on about, but I've been basing my opinion off academic studies since April.

Also your post is has more projection stuffed into it than mystery meat in a Taco Bell burrito.


That's retarded because less cases makes it look more lethal.
Proving there are exponentially more asymptomatic/weak/mild cases that aren't detected or reported than all the deaths and hospitalizations which are being recorded would prove its not as lethal as people like you are making it out to be.

If you only report 100 cases and all 100 people went to the hospital and 20 people died it looks like Smallpox Mk III.
If you report 10,000 cases and 100 people went to the hospital and 20 people died it looks like a really, really bad cold.

If there were some grand conspiracy to mis-report statistics to favor opening up, then you would think that they would fake it in a way that helps their argument, not hurts it.

lol okay you sure know more than everyone does, you got me, there is clearly no reason why numbers are being fudged, it must be a grand conspiracy, much like covid19 is a liberal hoax.

 

[and 3 others]

lol okay you sure know more than everyone does, you got me, there is clearly no reason why numbers are being fudged, it must be a grand conspiracy, much like covid19 is a liberal hoax.

>claims that the White House is releasing fake numbers
>calls other side conspiracy theorists

 

[Getting tard comed]

it's weird how you guys are relying on statistics that have to bypass any proper medical authority and go straight to the white house. i'm sure numbers aren't being doctored to make it seem like the cases are fewer than they are. why would someone want to do that? why would someone want to lie about the number of cases? perhaps as a means to reopen the economy so the rich can continue to get richer while everyone else has to struggle to get by? no, surely that isn't the case. surely people value human lives more than the Almighty Dollar, right?

right?

As opposed to getting the stats from where? The death rate is almost similar everywhere across the world. The death rate in the NYC and NJ are outliers due to them sending sick old people back to nursing homes. Texas and Florida have more cases than NY and a fraction of the deaths. Young people are almost guaranteed to survive it. Look at Sweden, which did nothing, and compare their numbers to Florida and Texas. Its favorable to FL and TX.

This is before we distinguish between dying from covid and dying with covid which nobody is doing atm. Anybody who dies with covid is being counted as dying from covid which isn't the case. But tell us more about how the numbers are being judged and let us know where we can find the real stats that prove this is the bubonic plague 2.0.

 

[Lurker]

>claims that the White House is releasing fake numbers
>calls other side conspiracy theorists

naw man there's no conspiracy, the government never lies. ever. especially not this government, under this current administration. nawwwww

As opposed to getting the stats from where? The death rate is almost similar everywhere across the world. The death rate in the NYC and NJ are outliers due to them sending sick old people back to nursing homes. Texas and Florida have more cases than NY and a fraction of the deaths. Young people are almost guaranteed to survive it. Look at Sweden, which did nothing, and compare their numbers to Florida and Texas. Its favorable to FL and TX.

This is before we distinguish between dying from covid and dying with covid which nobody is doing atm. Anybody who dies with covid is being counted as dying from covid which isn't the case. But tell us more about how the numbers are being judged and let us know where we can find the real stats that prove this is the bubonic plague 2.0.

like... i can't even respond to posts like this with any degree of seriousness because these arguments are just reeeeeeeee

you can throw these assertions out there, but they don't mean shit when the current statistics have to go through the white house, which definitely wouldn't fudge numbers at all. and then the fucking argument that people who die with covid aren't dying FROM covid. sure, i'll bite. that's a handful of people. you know, when death certificates are signed, they are signed with the intent of being as accurate as they can be based on the circumstances.

and then you lovely individuals still aren't acknowledging the aftereffects of the virus, which also fuck people up. sure, you won't die from covid, you'll just have permanently damaged organs and potentially be fucked for the rest of your life, but at least you're alive, right? man you got me.

edit: also, you're the one throwing numbers at me. where's YOUR real stats, my dude?