Some highlight - $1400 checks - extend unemployment, $400 per week through Sept 2021 - national vaccination program ($20b) - national testing/tracing program ($50b) - PPE ($40b) - K-8 re-open ($130b) - snap 15% boost - childcare ($25b) ... Biden Transition COVID Relief Package Fact Sheet - DocumentCloud Biden Covid-19 $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan: Package to Include Direct Checks - Bloomberg
I knew they were gonna **** us on those checks and just make up the difference. This is still a woeful response compared to the rest of the western world. No accounting for the past months of struggling while waiting to get trump out and neuter McConnell.
Need to read more into it but I think it’s reopen f2f for all k-8. Or at least funding to support that effort. There has been a mix bag of data... the scale IMO tip over to reopen for those grade level. However, half of the school year is already over and it will take months to get funding out so it might be more disruptive to change plans and it’s already too late. Maybe this is geared toward fall 21.
to reopen schools it basically means vaccinate the whole staff and/or students - that's what that cash money is for. Seems like a good idea to me.
Concerning school... the fact sheet states the below. 100 days to get that done doesn't sound realistic to me. - goal to open majority of K-8 within 1st 100 days of admin - $130B to help reopen safely - funds for reduce class size, modify space, improve ventilation, hire more janitors, implement mitigation measure, provide PPE, nurse, increase transportation capacity, hire counselors, close digital divide, provide summer school, ... - vaccination and scaled up testing and tracing is also part of the program
Actually schools have been some of the safest gathering places. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...fac9d8-3697-11eb-a997-1f4c53d2a747_story.html I am a teacher and have been very surprised how little people have contracted covid and I am deep in denier territory.
Yeah there is no way to that in 100 days, don't have the the people or the space. But a lot of kids have already returned because they are failing will be interested to see how rates go up through March.
not that you're wrong here, but like the article you shared mentions, we have a pretty serious lack of data and a wildly inconsistent contact and tracing system in place across the country, along with some instances where community transmission *could* be linked to school, so I think it'll be a while before we have a real good handle on what exactly open schools have or have not contributed to the issue.
This is one area that I have been tracking. For a few months, most of the data point to school being safe. Then the UK report came out last month - school is a major driver of cases (maybe that's due to the new strain, which is now here). Mixed bag.
Go Biden ! I wish him Godspeed and the best - I do like his emphasis on having a plan - I prefer more of a gaffe less moderate like Tulsi Gabbard without family issues but no one is perfect
Key words in that headline are ‘with the right measures’ My wife is also a teacher (School librarian) and her district is not taking the right measures and it shows. The yokel board is all white and every bio makes sure to mention which church they go to. Their half assed and cavalier attitude trickles down. Teachers are either blasé, paranoid or stressed out. Classic issue we’re seeing across the board with COVID. Uneven, unguided response in a million different shards. Biden deserves to be on Rushmore if he can right this ship completely. Because Trump royally butt****ed it.
