Like Portugal (except Lisbon, the city was hit by a second wave).Looks like the new Spongebob movie will be released in theaters in Canada soon:
Box Office: ‘Sonic’ Bombs In China As ‘SpongeBob 3’ Gets Canadian Theatrical Release
Did 'Sonic' open soft due to the "new normal" or because Chinse moviegoers weren't into 'Sonic' or Jim Carrey?www.forbes.com
It does seem like some studios will release movies in other countries that are not as hard hit by Covid-19.
I doubt the old normal is gone forever. I'm sure it'll come back next year or two.Well, I am taking it seriously as I was reluctant on going to the cinemas when it was announced that they would reopen during this month and the old normal is already gone.
I doubt the old normal is gone forever. I'm sure it'll come back next year or two.
Well, let's all just wait and see.I don't know about that. While movie theaters are hoping to be able to release movies again within the next year or two, I'm really not sure if they'll be able to survive at this rate.
I actually feel bad for the kids, more so than anybody else. Kids are having major interruptions in their education, who knows how well they can catch up. Also younger kids might feel like the world we live is “normal” just because they don’t know any better. Kids are missing out on stuff like birthday parties, summer camp, and other things that builds childhood memories.
The thing about those is that they lasted a day, and for the most part life went to mostly normal the next day for most people. Or at least that’s how I remember 9/11 being for me as a 6th grader who lived nowhere near New York. Obviously it would be different for people who lived in the area of knew someone who was involved.Covid-19 is certainly turning into the defining adolescent experience for Gen Z, much like the Sept. 11th attacks for Millennials and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (or arguably the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) for Gen X.
Your kids have to physically go to school? My district is going virtual at the start of the year, but we are going to move into half the kids go Monday’s/Wednesday’s and the other half go Tuesday’s/Thursday’s at some point. I don’t know how we are going to enforce masks. There are some kids we can’t get to spit out their gum or put their phones away, how are we going to get them to keep their mask on? Not to mention social distancing. I’m always being hugged, grabbed at, groped, etc by kids. They also are fascinated by my whistle and always want to blow it. How are we going to explain keep your distance to young kids? I want to go to my job. Seriously, I’m sick and tired of being in my parents house where I have to play the role of the teen daughter. If I found out that school magically opened tomorrow, I would be there in a heartbeat, I just don’t understand how it can be done though. Well that’s my rant for today.My kids are going to be required to wear face masks in school this Fall. That's just...something you won't forget as you get older.
I actually feel bad for the kids, more so than anybody else. Kids are having major interruptions in their education, who knows how well they can catch up. Also younger kids might feel like the world we live is “normal” just because they don’t know any better. Kids are missing out on stuff like birthday parties, summer camp, and other things that builds childhood memories.
Covid-19 is certainly turning into the defining adolescent experience for Gen Z, much like the Sept. 11th attacks for Millennials and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (or arguably the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) for Gen X.
My kids are going to be required to wear face masks in school this Fall. That's just...something you won't forget as you get older.
The thing about those is that they lasted a day, and for the most part life went to mostly normal the next day for most people. Or at least that’s how I remember 9/11 being for me as a 6th grader who lived nowhere near New York. Obviously it would be different for people who lived in the area of knew someone who was involved.
Yeah I know that people were depressed, scared, etc, but we (or at least I) still went to school like normal. I went to the state fair with my family the following weekend like normal. My family got upgraded to digital cable a couple of days later like we had scheduled. I still went to Girl Scouts every Tuesday like normally did. (Which come to think of it, 9/11 was on a Tuesday. I don’t remember if that meeting was canceled.)I don't know how normal it was for most people. I didn't really fully understand 9/11 when it happened myself, but I clearly remember most of my teachers being depressed for pretty much the rest of that week. A lot of people sadly dealt with more racist garbage too. It definitely had a huge impact on the entire country too. People were scared, a lot of people were full of anger, and the first time I heard the term collective trauma was in relation to 9/11. It was probably a more impactful moment if you lived within the area or knew someone who passed away, but the single day had a huge impact on the entire country. COVID-19 isn't a single day, but it has drastically affected people one way or another. We can't really get back to a pre-9/11 time much like I don't think we'll be able to get to a pre-COVID-19 time at this rate.
Yeah I know that people were depressed, scared, etc, but we (or at least I) still went to school like normal. I went to the state fair with my family the following weekend like normal. My family got upgraded to digital cable a couple of days later like we had scheduled. I still went to Girl Scouts every Tuesday like normally did. (Which come to think of it, 9/11 was on a Tuesday. I don’t remember if that meeting was canceled.)
I’m not saying that everyone forgot about 9/11 on 9/12 nor am I saying that nobody’s life was impacted. I fully understand that I would be telling a different story right now if I lived in the New York area and/or knew somebody who did. To me, Covid-19 is like if something on the scale of 9/11 happened once a month for the entire year.
I apologize if I sound rude. That is not my intent.
Dr. Pepper said:Your kids have to physically go to school? My district is going virtual at the start of the year, but we are going to move into half the kids go Monday’s/Wednesday’s and the other half go Tuesday’s/Thursday’s at some point.
I never said they were gone forever.I doubt the old normal is gone forever. I'm sure it'll come back next year or two.
Not so.Analyses of covid-19 cases worldwide suggests that the coronavirus is spread from adults to other adults, and from adults to children, but not from children to adults or from children to other children. This means schools can stay open for children age 2-12 as long as teachers are very careful.
Oh my god, I have been hearing the opposite in the last few months. This article is from two weeks ago and I guess it's already outdated!Not so.
New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults
Two new studies from different parts of the world arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well.www.forbes.com
Oh my god, I have been hearing the opposite in the last few months. This article is from two weeks ago and I guess it's already outdated!
Children rarely transmit coronavirus to others, studies confirm
www.brusselstimes.com
For this study, Heald-Sargent and her colleagues took a look back at nasal samples taken from 145 patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
The researchers found that young children had average viral loads 10 to 100 times greater than adults.
"Kids certainly have virus and are replicating virus in their nose as efficiently, if not more efficiently, than adults," Heald-Sargent said. "It would be logical they can also spread the virus or transmit the virus."
However, that infection risk simply hasn't been demonstrated in real-world epidemiological studies, counters Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in Baltimore.
"It's one thing to find virus in the nasal passages of a child versus finding epidemiological evidence of children passing it on to other people," Adalja said. "That's the key thing -- we're still not seeing outbreaks being driven by children to the extent they are driven by older individuals, and that's despite the fact that they have the virus in their nose."
According to the CDC, just 7% of U.S. COVID-19 cases, and less than 0.1% of related deaths, have occurred in people under the age of 18. And so far in 2020, fewer children have died from COVID-19 than typically die from the flu in a given year.
It remains a mystery why kids haven't been shown to be as infectious as adults when it comes to COVID-19, Adalja said.
It could be that children don't get as sick and therefore don't cough as much, spreading airborne virus, Adalja said. It also could be that because children are smaller, their airborne respiratory particles are more likely to fall to the ground before an adult can inhale them.
Heald-Sargent thinks the problem might be with the timing of the epidemiologic studies that showed low transmission rates in children.
"A lot of the epidemiologic surveys have been done in a period of social distancing and isolation, where schools were shut down quite early and day cares as well," Heald-Sargent said. "The people who were going out in the community were the adults. They were the ones at work and going to the store."
As lockdown restrictions have relaxed, more spread is being observed among children, Heald-Sargent said.
For example, a study from South Korea earlier this month found that kids 10 or older can spread the virus just as efficiently as adults.
"I'm not saying schools shouldn't reopen or day cares shouldn't reopen. It's a very nuanced and complicated discussion, and different for different areas," Heald-Sargent said. "We can't assume that children cannot spread the virus. Everyone is assuming because it hasn't been seen, it does not happen. Now I think we need to challenge that assumption."
We have the option. Parents can enroll in virtual school, or enroll their kids in public school. Masks are to be worn on the bus and in hallways, there will be hopefully adequate spacing in classrooms, there will be temperature checks and lots of restrictions in place. I mean, if everyone in a packed Walmart aisle can wear a facemask, everyone in a school hallway can wear a mask.
wonderfly said:Plus I'm also taking into account that kids are more immune (or have mild symptoms) to the virus
And yes, if there's a significant outbreak, we could be right back to where we were in the Spring, with home schooling.
In Belgium, certain age groups were allowed to go back to school in June. On June 30th, my mother saw children crying because vacation started.
I don't know if this is true for the USA, but I always loved school and didn't like vacation so much as a child, and this seems to be true for most children (age 2-12) here. The "I hate school" idea prevalent in American cartoons is quite alien to us.
Red Arrow said:Closing schools was a really bad idea. Some children will have had vacation for 6 months... The quality of online education heavily depends on the strictness of parents.
Exactly. I understand why they had to close them, but I wish it didn’t have to be that way. My principal told us about how there was this one family from our school that was ignoring emails and phone calls and not logging in to online classes. He went to their house, but no one answered the door, despite the fact the windows were open, the tv was on, and three cars were in the driveway. They obviously don’t care about school. Online schools are just not for everybody.Closing schools was a really bad idea. Some children will have had vacation for 6 months... The quality of online education heavily depends on the strictness of parents.