Coronavirus prompts closing of Georgia high school in district with over 1K in quarantine

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC News

A Georgia school district that does not require masks has closed a high school and now has over 1,100 students and staff in quarantine due to the coronavirus.

The Cherokee County School District, based in Canton about 40 miles north of Atlanta, made the announcement Tuesday, just eight days after its schools reopened.

"This decision was not made lightly," Superintendent Brian Hightower said in a statement about the temporary halt to in-person instruction at Etowah High School. He said the high school had 14 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 15 tests pending as of Tuesday morning.

"As a result of the confirmed cases, 294 students and staff are under quarantine and, should the pending tests prove positive, that total would increase dramatically," the superintendent said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-prompts-closing-georgia-high-school-district-over-1k-quarantine-n1236492

[Doodley]

1. Who would have predicted that coronavirus would spread without the use of masks?

[AZ8theist]

23. Brian EEEE Kemp....SUPER GENIUS....

BRIAN EEEEEEEEEEEEE KEMP....SUPER GENIUS!!!!!!!!!

[agingdem]

2. Georgia is a covid 19 hotspot...

what the hell did they think was going to happen???

[progree]

8. You're right, 2nd highest state in daily new cases per capita, 7 day moving average

https://globalepidemics.org/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression/
32.6 cases per 100,000

Louisiana is 1st place at 34.9.

3rd place: Mississippi

Then Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee

(all these states have something in common I think )

And while Georgia's cases haven't been going up much lately, they aren't going down either --

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/georgia-coronavirus-cases.html

[DBoon]

12. I look at a map of the coronavirus hot spot states

and it looks like a map of the confederacy

[progree]

15. Yup, pretty much - the big U.S. map near the top

Map of Average daily cases per 100,000 people in the past week
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Then there's the Central Valley of California that's red politically as well as red on the map.
I used to own a vineyard there 16 miles west of Fresno.

[paleotn]

22. That it do. Ironic really.

They were just so sure this thing was no big deal. A blue state disease. Gawd would protect them or some such bullshit.

[Thunderbeast]

14. It was going to dissapear "like magic".

[GopherGal]

16. But, but...

don't you know kids can't get it?

[paleotn]

20. Orange rainbows and ponies!!!!!!

All you have to do is....believe!!!!

[IronLionZion]

3. America is facing extinction

kind of like the dinosaurs

[ananda]

5. Lol -- hopefully just red state America

...

[Mr. Ected]

9. Except the blue wave within it dies too

Count your blessings if you don't live in a place where everyone around you tells you that COVID is a media hoax and no one wears a mask, even in places that require them.

[DBoon]

10. unfortunately, the African Americans within red states get hit hard

[klook]

21. That's what the "Eff the South" narrative leaves out.

Majority-black cities and counties in Rethug southern states are living in the belly of the beast.

And that goes a long way in explaining why the white evangelical supremacists in charge seem to embrace the virus with open arms. They conveniently ignore the fact that viruses don’t discriminate, until they get a dose themselves.

[IronLionZion]

11. A few idiots can infect a lot of people unfortunately

[SheltieLover]

4. Fkn idiots!

I wonder how many students, teachers & family/ community member's lives will be destroyed? 🤬

[SeattleVet]

6. Wow! They really need to slow down that testing!

Way too many cases - doesn't that school superintendent understand how it all works? Less testing means fewer cases, right?

(I feel like my IQ just went down by 15 points for having typed that!)

[dem4decades]

17. Maybe Trump learned this in school. If he didn't take a test, he never failed it.

[byronius]

7. I know it's wrong to laugh. But holy @#$%ing REALLY? Ever heard of DARWIN?

Emoji head-smack.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. My mother always used to repeat a saying that her grandfather would say to her

"A hard head makes a soft behind".

It's just sad that these children (and the teachers and staff and other employees) became guinea pigs due to the selfishness and obstinance of these jackasses running those districts, the counties/municipalities, and the state.

[Leith]

18. Well, that didn't take long

They were warned.

[paleotn]

19. It's like beating your face against a brick wall....

The wall is unfazed. Can't say that about your face. Reality won't be cheated by political theology and stupid human constructs. To borrow a phrase, it is what it is. You can't wish it away.

[TomCADem]

26. Yet The President Is Still Pushing Reopening...

...I wonder who will be the scapegoat when schools become super spreaders?

[riversedge]

24. I am hoping no one dies.

[Initech]

25. ...