I live near Alcoa TN, where the first school opened up.

[TNNurse]

Three days later there is a Covid + student.

Did anyone think that teachers, staff and students should all be tested before opening???

Of course someone who is positive and without symptoms is going to be there.

Duh.

[Tanuki]

1. Please keep us updated. Stay safe!

[TNNurse]

2. We are old retired people without children.

We just have to go to a few stores and see a few friends at a distance. We are trying to stay safe.

[TheFarseer]

3. I hope

They had enough sense to realize there would definitely be a Covid positive student at some point.

[TNNurse]

4. They do have a detailed plan.

It is not a big school system. I think there are 2000 students in 4 schools.
They are being very public about it.

[hedda_foil]

5. So what are they doing about it?

[DanieRains]

6. Moving To Miami

Oh wait.

[TNNurse]

12. They have done contact tracing and notified everyone,

the person is quarantined. They are being very public about it.

It is a pretty small school system so that part is pretty manageable.

It is front and center in the local paper, and the Knoxville TV news, no one is hiding anything.

[hedda_foil]

13. Thanks. That's good to know.

[brush]

7. Of course. trump and stupid red state, sycophant govs...

are going to be so sorry when the schools have to be shut down again.

It's an election-losing move. Makes one wonder if trump is self-sabotaging his own campaign unconsciously?

[BigmanPigman]

8. His stubborn narcissism

will never allow him to say he was wrong about anything...it shows he is weak. He's only concerned with his image and keeping all the illegally gained money safe. His niece explained that this is why she is afraid for the country.

[McKim]

10. I have wondered too...

I had wondered about this too. He must be exhausted and so angry that he is not longer being worshipped. The real world finally caught up with him! I think he is trying to cause as much chaos as he can on the way out.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Schools close across America when we had 20k cases

a day. Why the Hell would we not open schools everywhere when we only have 70k cases a day? I’m just sayin’ .......

[Luciferous]

11. I work at a school and am really considering if I want to go back to work at this point.

[WyattKansas]

14. Until there is rapid testing and immediate contact tracing in the United States reopening will fail.

I don't understand the logic republicans are using, when they are proven wrong over and over again, yet they still refuse to do the necessary things to reduce the spread. I seriously think they want a mass kill off/culling of Americans, because they always choose the wrong things to do. They have now put the safety of the American People on the same model as their disaster economics race to the bottom plans.