COVID is in US schools and colleges — but reportedly few systems are reliably tracking its spread

© 2020 Peter Free

 

17 September 2020

 

 

Failed state America?

 

Continuing the US saga of not doing any real epidemiology — regarding COVID-19 — comes this news:

 

 

The data on how coronavirus is spreading at schools and colleges is inconsistent, erratic — and sometimes purposely kept out of the public’s reach.

 

The result is a distorted picture of how and where the virus may be spreading . . . .

 

The federal Education Department said it does not plan to track school or college cases or outbreaks.

 

To try to fill the information vacuum . . . The School Superintendents Association, created its own tracker to examine how things are evolving at schools based on their reopening plans.

 

According to tracking by COVKID, run by epidemiologists who track cases in children and teens, nearly 618,000 children and teens have confirmed cases of Covid-19 as of Monday, though it estimates more than 3 million have been infected with the virus when accounting for undetected cases — the CDC has also said the true number of infections may be 10 times higher than the official tally.

 

A total of 124 children and teens have died from the virus.

 

© 2020 Bianca Quilantan and Dan Goldberg, Spotty virus tracking in schools is leaving millions in the dark on infection rates, Politico (10 September 2020)

 

 

And sports are back

 

Including in-your-face, drool 'n spit types.

 

No one is reliably contact tracing COVID there, either.

 

 

The moral? — Either SARS-CoV-2 is not "that" bad — or it is . . .

 

. . . and our money-grubbing Power Elites are hoping that Big Pharma, mortuaries and medicine will bloat Elites' stock portfolios with Disaster Loot gained from COVID's death, maim and morbidity tolls.

 

In the absence of reliable American epidemiological investigation, either possibility holds true.

 

Is ignorance bliss?

 

Or is the United States' grand display of egregious incompetence a sign of terminal rot in the roots of our societal order?