First covid case confirmed. Should have stayed home and played WoW. Are we in the twilight zone?
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This whole year has just been a freaking mess. Can we get a do-over?
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Worry not, dear ones. For there are five months left, and greater disappointments on the horizon. 
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More likely the person in question was already sick and it wasn’t due to going back to school. There are multiple countries that kept kids in school the whole time and had almost no problems. We should figure out what they did right that we’re doing wrong.
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To play devil’s advocate, if today is the first day back and there’s already a confirmed case, it was contracted prior to school starting and has nothing to be with being back in school.
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My state is not even taking chances we are going pure internet school only until all the covid 19 is gone.
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While the student who tested positive did not contract covid from school, every person who was within close proximity has to quarantine for 14 days. So those students are now back at home, out of school. Their parents either have to get child care or take off work (I bet employers will love this). The staff & teachers who were in close contact are now at home, too.
And flu season hasn’t hit yet, either. It’s going to be a messy fall/winter.
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Hopefully the parents didn’t send to school knowing the kid had it. Probably infected everyone around them now. I fear this is going to become common now.
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Genuinely curious, no snark - which countries with comparable population density didn’t have at least a short full lockdown early on to help slow the spread?
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It doesn’t work that way. They had it before schools opened up.
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My kids doing an online academy until there is a vaccine and everyone has it
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That’ll never happen. It’s a virus. Just like the flu is a virus. It’ll never go away. A vaccine is the best we’ll get. And when you consider the fact that numerous medications that have been proven to help have been shot down by Dr Fauci, supposedly an expert in such matters, its no wonder they’re not making decent progress toward a vaccine.
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Granted you’re talking about schools but
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There is one in phase three trials atm. There are multiple great vaccine candidates
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Don’t test results take like 24hours to a few days?
How they confirming it so fast?
Plus I imagine it takes a few days to even show symptoms, if you do at all. I have doubts this case was from going to school 
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Our school district is doing both remote learning and in-school - parents can choose. We’re leaning towards remote for our 2 kids, if for no other reason than stability and routine. Students and teachers will get it and there will be further closures, and we don’t want our kids constantly shifting back and forth between the two.
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Ugh, i’m already imagining hallways, desks and tables littered with masks from lazy children or teens. 
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Do you want a list?
Because we haven’t done anything that sensible countries have done.
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Yes, they are making progress. I’m not denying that. But, the fact is, he has shot down multiple medicines that could have helped a LOT of people in the meantime.
You have to wonder if several of the medicines he’s shot down might have saved numerous lives. And not just that, but WHY he shot them down in the first place. He’s supposed to be a Doctor, not a Politician, and yet every time his name comes up, he’s playing Politics, not engaging in Medicine.
If memory serves I think they said it came take upwards of two weeks for symptoms to show up.