"Boston to randomly test teachers and other educators weekly for COVID-19" by James Vaznis and Bianca Vázquez Toness Globe Staff, September 10, 2020
Boston officials and the teachers union unveiled plans on Thursday to randomly test teachers and other educators on a weekly basis for COVID-19, making the city’s school system one of the first in the state to commit to routine testing.
(Blog author shakes his head at their stupidity)
Under the plan, the district will test up to 5 percent of the members of the Boston Teachers Union on a weekly basis, giving high priority to those working in schools in neighborhoods with high COVID-19 positivity rates as well as employees who work directly with students where social distancing is not possible, such as those providing hands-on support for some students with profound disabilities.
The move — part of a broader agreement with the Boston Teachers Union on reopening schools that was announced Thursday. Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the union agreement as part of his routine briefings on the city’s virus efforts. He highlighted the provision about the routine COVID-19 testing of union employees and other measures in the agreement such as additional training for educators on how to teach remotely and the ability to bring their own children to school if they can’t secure child care. “The focus of this framework is ensuring the safety of everyone in our schools,” Walsh said.
That's not it. They want total control of the kids.
Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union, described the testing program as a good first step, but said she would like to see more wide-scale testing of staff. She noted educators report to their schools from across the city and the region while students also criss-cross the city to get to their schools — many relying on public transit — creating ripe conditions for a widespread outbreak.
Well, Governor Baker said the T is safe and he will ride it again!
She said she would like the district to administer rapid testing for educators exhibiting symptoms to determine whether they have been infected or are instead suffering from the flu, allergies, or something else. Tang said the move would decrease potentially unnecessary quarantines that would keep teachers away from their students.
The New York Times of all people confirmed that 90% of the positives are false and non-infectious based on tests that don't even specifically identify the elusive COVID-19, but all the movers-and-shakers act as if that was never reported at all as they double down on the fear-based lies leading to total tyranny.
Boston appears to be one of just a handful of districts in the state that is planning to test teachers.
Cambridge’s school committee made routine testing for teachers a condition of reopening school buildings for students next month. The city is finalizing plans with the Cambridge-based Broad Institute to offer a testing program for all staff who will work in school buildings, said Lyndsay P. Brown, chief strategy officer for Cambridge Public Schools. The plan will not have to be approved by the school committee, said Brown.
Stay closed, for many reasons.
Wellesley and Hanover plan to test staff before they enter schools, according to union agreements with the districts. Wellesley will also provide free testing once a week for staff for “preventative monitoring.” Watertown, Everett, Revere, and Lexington are also planning to offer at least some testing to school staff, according to the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
Yeah, you guys will be essential -- until you are not and are replaced by what appears to be pimps!
Stupid teachers participating in their own destruction.
Debate over whether to routinely test educators has been unfolding over the summer as districts prepare to reopen schools. It intensified after Governor Charlie Baker announced plans to dispatch mobile COVID-19 testing units to schools experiencing potential clusters of cases. Teachers unions criticized the move as too reactive as they pressed for wide-scale free testing of teachers and students as a preventative measure.
Are they just willfully ingrate of the coooked numbers or are they part of the larger agenda while being paid off right now?
WTF?
As for Baker's mobile bioweapons labs for "potential" clusters, we are looking at full-blown totalitarianism descending upon us that is going to be applauded by the populace which is dumb as shit around here. I'm fucked.
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, however, has not issued any guidelines on routine testing, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t recommend universal testing for asymptomatic school employees and students.
In its guidance, the CDC said “it is not known if testing in school settings provides any additional reduction in person-to-person transmission of the virus beyond what would be expected with implementation of other infection preventive measures,” such as social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, and enhanced cleaning procedures.
The CDC is in CYA mode given that they reported that only 6% of the deaths are specifically from COVID, with the rest having 2 or 3 underlying conditions in mostly elderly patients.
Again, completely ignored by the pre$$.
The guidance also says universal testing could present some challenges, including whether all students, parents, and staff would be receptive to the idea, but Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center and a faculty member at Boston University School of Medicine, said there can be value in doing sample testing if it is part of a broader COVID-19 prevention plan. He compared it to the kind of surveillance and population testing occurring in nursing homes, shelters, and other congregate settings, which aim to test between 20 to 40 percent of people every two or four weeks.
“It can be effective at recognizing an outbreak early,” said Barocas, but it also can lead to the need for further investigation and testing. “I’m hopeful if someone sees a possible signal of an outbreak . . . that they would increase testing to determine if it’s actually a signal or just noise.”
It never ends with these sick fu*ks, and it is so far beyond a virus now that COVID is clearly cover for reengineering existence on this planet to benefit a few dozen control freaks who happen to be psychopathic and genocidal in their quest for a perfect world for themselves, and the bought and paid for criminal pre$$ is a collaborator in the effort.
He said going with a sampling of 5 percent of union members each week is a good starting point and from there the district could assess whether it’s large enough to be effective in either spotting potential outbreaks or instilling confidence among educators, students, and parents that they will be safe.
Yeah, it's about keeping the kids safe, uh-huh.
At 5 percent, the testing program is a potentially ambitious effort for the BPS, and could mean testing up to approximately 375 educators a week or 1,500 over the course of a month, according to Globe calculations. The Boston Teachers Union has about 7,500 active members, including nurses, classroom aides, and guidance counselors across 125 buildings, but not all union members would be eligible for testing. The agreement limits testing to only those who report to school buildings with students inside. Members can only be tested every 14 days. Results would be available within 24 to 48 hours.
The district will provide weekly public reports on incidents of infection by school, according to the agreement.
Many details of the testing program are still being worked out with the Boston Public Health Commission, a school spokesman said Thursday night. The school system also had no estimated cost for the program and did not say where the money would come from to cover the testing.
Some philanthropic benefactor, no doubt!
Budgets have been hollowed out and the tax base destroyed, but they will find the loot for totalitarian testing and tracing.
Thomas Scott, executive director for the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, said he has mixed feelings about routine testing, especially the cost and the possibility of false positives for employees with no symptoms.
90% of 'em, dude!
Beth Kontos, president of the American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts, which Boston teachers belong to, said she views the BPS COVID-19 testing as a “win for public health,” but she wishes the state would create a routine testing program for all districts instead of just providing emergency testing.
“Its a shame we have to wait for people to get sick until we do the right thing,” she said.....
I'm sorry, I give up on you people.
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Related:
"Teachers had just returned last month to prepare for the fall semester at John Evans Middle School in Potosi, Mo., when 34-year-old AshLee DeMarinis started to feel ill. DeMarinis had been worried about returning to work at the rural middle school, where she was starting her 11th year of teaching. She had asthma, which put her at a higher risk for complications from COVID-19 despite her young age. “She was scared,” her sister, Jennifer Heissenbuttel, told The Washington Post. Three weeks later, DeMarinis died in the hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus and suffering from complications caused by the infection. DeMarinis isn’t the only teacher to die amid the pandemic as children return to schools across the United States. Educators in Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina, Iowa and Oklahoma have died as the fall semester started in their districts. It isn’t clear whether any of the teachers were infected at school, and many quarantined to avoid exposing students and other staff members, but their deaths have renewed fears that school campuses will become a breeding ground for the virus, spreading the illness as communities grapple with how to balance the need to educate children with properly addressing the pandemic.
I read the Wa$hington Compo$t pile above with rising incredulity knowing that the studies don't show that at all in places where schools have been open, like in Europe. There is no transmission between kids and teachers, and yet here the $hamele$$ compo$t is shoveling this criminal fear porn. Furthermore, this unfortunate person had an underlying condition!
School districts and state officials have struggled to find the right coronavirus precautions. DeMarinis was an avid crafter who spent her summer at a lake with her sister and her nieces. When she returned to school on Aug. 10, she was concerned about the pandemic, her sister told The Post, but she got to work readying the classroom for her students who were set to start classes in a few weeks. “She taught special education, and it was just her calling,” her sister said. “Her students loved her and her colleagues loved her.” DeMarinis initially thought she had an ear infection when she started to feel sick on Aug. 14, but her condition worsened quickly, and by Aug. 19 she tested positive for coronavirus. She died on Sunday after three weeks on a ventilator at the hospital.
OMG, the medics KILLED HER!
It's been known for a long time now that the ventilators are not only counterproductive, but harmful. They end up exploding the lungs, and that's why ethical physicians quit using them!
What you just saw, if accurately reported, was STATE MURDER!
There will be a SECOND WAVE caused by a POWERFUL BIOWEAPON, folks, if this propaganda is worth its salt.
Nationally, at least five other teachers have died since early August.
This week, Demetria “Demi” Bannister, a 28-year-old third-grade teacher in Columbia, S.C., died from complications of the coronavirus, the State reported. On Sunday, Tom Slade, a 53-year-old high school history teacher in Vancleave, Miss., died of the virus, the Sun Herald reported.
Nacoma James, 42, a beloved football coach in Oxford, Miss., died in early August during the first week back on campus for his students. He spent the summer coaching at football practices until he was forced to self-quarantine after developing coronavirus-like symptoms, Mississippi Today reported.
The deaths have disrupted the start of the fall semester for many schools, and left students mourning their favorite instructors and role models. “It’s like a gut punch really,” one of Slade’s students, Chase Hall, told WLOX. “He was a man I respected. I looked forward to him coming back to the classroom, and then he was gone.”
Some districts have also been struggling to comply with quarantine requirements as staff and students test positive for the virus. Two days after children returned to classes in Tahlequah, Okla., school district officials confirmed special education teacher Teresa Horn, 62, died on Aug. 28 from a heart attack after testing positive for the coronavirus, KTUL reported.
Did she have underlying condition like obesity or diabetes?
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of one of our teachers,” Tahlequah Public Schools said in a statement. “Losing a member of your family is never easy and in the current climate, it makes the situation even worse.”
Tahlequah Public Schools sent students home for two days of virtual classes following Horn’s death. In a little over a week since, the district has reported at least eight students and staff members have tested positive and dozens have been forced to quarantine after possible exposure to the virus at school.
POSSIBLE EXPOSURE?
Even in districts that have committed to virtual classes, keeping kids off-campus is no guarantee the virus won’t spread among staff members.
A week before virtual classes were set to start in Des Moines, a teacher died after testing positive for the virus, sparking additional fears in a district that has been battling with state leaders over a statewide mandate requiring at least 50 percent of classes to involve in-person instruction....."
This all comes in the same notebook that tells me confidence is waning in integrity of vaccine effort.
Related:
"Houston-area health authorities are overstating the number of new Covid-19 cases as data teams struggle to work through a backlog of old test results in the third-largest U.S. county. On an almost daily basis, Harris County Public Health releases a tally of what it calls “new cases.” A Bloomberg analysis found they include hundreds of diagnoses that are weeks or months old. On Wednesday, for example, more than 82% of the new cases disclosed were actually detected prior to this month and some dated as far back as May. The confusion means authorities may be exaggerating the current severity of the outbreak -- and were unknowingly understating the extent of the crisis in June and July, when hospitals were stretched to their limits. The situation also highlights the dilemma facing political leaders imposing mask mandates and other restrictions based on what they presume is accurate, timely data....."
Nothing confusing about that buried brief!
The level of life-harming and life-threatening that these criminal bastards continue to impose is abominable and a reckoning needs to come:
Parents of suspended Northeastern students hire lawyer
I read that article last night and it's a Borg Hive over at the BG if the comments are any indication, and now cases and deaths are going up again as they double down on the lies and tyranny in making mountains out of molehills to get a needle in you!
Also see:
"A Harvard professor has won a $3 million prize for her work in life sciences. Catherine Dulac won for “deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes," the Breakthrough Prize Foundation said in a statement. The Breakthrough Prizes are meant to honor fundamental discoveries in the life sciences, physics, and mathematics that are changing the world. Its founders include Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, and Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. A total of $18.75 million in prizes was awarded this year to support “scientists working on the biggest and most fundamental questions,” the foundation said....."
They awarded $$$ to a $cienti$t who promotes perversion and gender confusion!
The kids are DOA:
"Young people partying blamed for rise in COVID-19 cases in Dedham" by Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, September 10, 2020
Dedham health officials are blaming young people for a recent rise in the town’s COVID-19 cases.
The increased rate of infections led the state to designate Dedham as “high-risk" for the coronavirus and prompted local officials to postpone students' in-person return to school, according to a joint press release from the Dedham Board of Health and Town Manager Leon Goodwin.
You kids got lucky then! They are sparing your lives.
Dedham Board of Health Chairwoman Leanne Jasset said two clusters of positive cases have been linked to two recent gatherings of young people in town, one of which was a party attended by high school students.
“While it is believed that these clusters are the cause of the recent rise in positive cases, the increase means that it is imperative for residents to get tested now so health officials will have the best possible understanding of the current COVID-19 situation in our community," she said in the press release.
They want to bring this $hit to everywhere!
When will the kids fight back and where are their parents?
It wasn’t immediately clear how many cases were attributed to the youths gathering.
Dedham as of Wednesday had logged a total of 484 cases since the start of the pandemic, including 37 in the last two weeks, according to state DPH data.
All of a sudden, the state has good data despite Globe reporting from a week ago.
The state was sending a mobile testing unit to Dedham that was expected to be operational by the end of the week, and officials are encouraging residents to get tested. Dedham officials are also urging residents to continue to do their part to prevent further transmission of COVID-19 by wearing masks in public, practicing proper hygiene, and avoiding gathering in groups.
If you want to tear apart a city, that's okay.
The press release states that some residents may be contacted by contact tracers, and officials said it’s important that they answer those calls and provide information that can help curb further transmission of the virus.
FUCK OFF!
Dedham school officials said in-person classes scheduled for Sept. 21 will be delayed until further notice.
The recent uptick in cases in Dedham will likely serve as a cautionary tale for other school districts as well.
Oh, it's the beginning of the vaunted second wave that is to be amplified by a nasty bioweapon release soon. The WEF, WHO, Rockefeller, Gates, they all told us and the pre$$ is in the process of supply the narrative and programming necessary to the American people who don't see the blindside that is coming.
I weep for my fellow citizens.
On Thursday morning Needham Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Gutekanst tweeted out a story about Dedham’s predicament. “Needham wants in person school to start on September 29th," he wrote. "Let’s not have this happen to us!”
Close it all down, Dan.
See ya' next year!
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Oddly enough the Boston archdiocese schools are in session:
Students are back in the classroom at South Boston Catholic Academy in South Boston during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. First grade teacher Caroline Gannon dispensed sanitizer to each student before they entered the classroom (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff).
I can't take it anymore.
Children in masks having to sanitize with cancerous agents!
Don't pray to their God, either, since the purveyors of that particular gospel are well known for their centuries long pedophile scheme. They have been in league with Satan all this time.
The proof is in their active attempt to close down their own churches:
"Parishioners opposed to closing of Sudbury Catholic church hold 24-hour vigil" by Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent, September 10, 2020
SUDBURY — Parishioners at St. Anselm Church have begun a 24-hour vigil to block the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston from closing the church’s doors, arguing it serves a vibrant, self-supporting faith community, while the archdiocese says the church is poorly attended and “hemorrhaging funds.”
Lay leaders said Thursday that the church has a tight-knit, well-organized congregation that not only supports its expenses but also contributes financially to the archdiocese.
“This community has never taken a dime from the archdiocese,” said Cynthia Deysher, 62, a longtime former St. Anselm parishioner and parish council chairwoman who is assisting with the vigil.
“We paid all of our bills. We have no debt,” Deysher continued. “This building . . . was paid for by the people in the pews, maintained by the people in the pews. We give money to the archdiocese for special collections, for the Catholic appeal. We’re not a financial drain on the archdiocese.”
“They haven’t told us where to go, and we think that’s very intentional, because . . . we know by canon law the assets should follow where those parishioners are told to go,” said Jamie Hanson, 57, of Sudbury, a member of the church’s lay leadership team and a parishioner for 22 years.
The congregation went public with their vigil Thursday, after a priest and a deacon from the archdiocese went to the church, requested entry, and became angry when parishioners turned them away, Hanson said.....
There is a spot in Heaven for them all!
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Related:
Vatican bars former Catholic priest in Lynn from active ministry
He had been accused of sexual abuse in 2012, and the Globe's once-vaunted Spotlight has been turned into a brief that doesn't even make today's paper (generic now, for it is easier to hide the daily contradictions and lies).
If you need a sermon, listen to this guy; otherwise, just go fishing.
