Coronavirus cases lead over 800 to quarantine in Georgia school district where masks not required

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC News

Just one week after schools reopened in a northern Georgia school district, more than 800 of its students and staff have been told to quarantine.

Last week, the Cherokee County School District, about 44 miles north of Atlanta, told 20 people to quarantine when one 2nd-grader tested positive for the virus after the first day of school. That number grew fast, and as of Monday night, the school has ordered 826 students to quarantine due to possible exposure, according to a list the district created.

The 42,000-student district lists about 40 cases in 19 elementary, middle and high schools, but it is unclear if all of those represent positive coronavirus tests or if some are of people who were just exposed to infected students or staff.

The district routinely does contact tracing to determine who may have been exposed to people who test positive for the virus, according to NBC affiliate WXIA in Atlanta.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-cases-lead-over-800-quarantine-georgia-school-district-where-n1236364

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This is so infuriating because it was so predictable, yet Republicans have to drink the Trump/Russian Kool-Aid.

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Dense, Dumb And Deluded is alive and well even (especially?)in the halls of education.

[Bleacher Creature]

2. People need to face serious repercussions for putting kids and their families at risk.

Seriously, this is borderline criminal.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Masks As Personal Choice

Really dumb & cowardly decision.
They said it was too hard to enforce. What nonsense!
At-home suspension. Let the parents sort it out.
They were afraid of cult member parents, instead of sucking it up & standing strong.
Did they not think the majority of kids would be too cool to wear a mask. That personal choice they're allowing could get someone killed.

[TomCADem]

5. NBC News: Parents Pack Into Utah County Meeting To Protest Student Mask Mandate

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Let Those Selfish Morons...

...fight it after the fact.
Suspend the kids, let them whine.
Public health concerns almost always countermand freedom of choice.
Then those whiners can figure out how they can have Jaden or Emily home all day.

[johnthewoodworker]

4. Another republican success story.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Good grief!

[PatrickforO]

8. Gee, that worked out well.

Hope no one dies because of the stupid decision to open without requiring masks.

[Mr. Ected]

9. Believe it or not, these people are not and will not be repentant

If no one dies, they will blame liberals. If a handful get sick, but no one dies, they will blame Joe Biden. If no one shows symptoms, the tests are inaccurate and it's the liberals' fault. If they all die, then no lesson was learned and their infection no doubt infected others who eventually will find their way into my space.

There's no hope for these people. They believe what they want to believe. And that's always going to be their way. And their noose.