2020 school closing because of "flu" - list

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I am a paraeducator in Southern California. I work in a fourth grade special ed class. We aren't closing school, but we were down to eight kids in class today.

The weird thing is they are all out with different things...a few colds, a few cases of diagnosed flu, pink eye, strep throat, and bronchitis.

The cafeteria at lunch is a ghost town. Lots of sick kids. They don't want to close because we have to make those days up at the end of the school year.

and here, friend!

but a girl at the barn said the local Amazon warehouse had a 50% absentee rate

due to pneumonia

Last Edited by Torchie on 02/03/2020 08:10 PM

I know of two high schools personally. Both were areas overwhelmed with flu virus. From what I understadn the first flu shot wasn't the right one. If you got he later flu shot, you were ok. Just about everyone else in these ares is getting sick.

I wouldn't doubt it. You have to be healthy to fight off sickness, not be worked to death.

Last Edited by TlvmmCpoft on 02/03/2020 08:32 PM

My question is is this normal in any other year. I.mean to be fair do schools close like this every year?

Historic data:

"in the 2017-2018 flu season, schools in at least a dozen states closed down in an attempt to stem the spread of illness throughout their student bodies."

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My kids have never had school closed due to sickness.

I read a few of the school closure announcements. One said they had contacted they CDC for guidance.

I can’t ever remember hearing about schools closing for flu. Has this been going on for a while? Or is this some new thing?

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If those kids are carriers of the corona virus that they caught from asian kids (whose chinese family members were in China or hung around people traveling to China).

That would mean in 14 to 30 days the parents of those children will begin showing outward symptoms of corona virus.

Which means that the timeline the USA needs to watch is if numbers grow starting from Feb 18th to Mar 4th.


If number of cases in the US explode exponentially during that window, then it means its too late and containment failed.

Fam. member works at Amazonia. Everyone took off for superbowl, mostly managers left early or just left, yesterday and today. ?

I agree with other poster, our US window is further out, though I feel we have underreporting going on now. I am looking at Feb. 9th to March for any spread to show.

We already got hand sanitizer, gloves, and stopped touching doors and atm pads, etc.
Got a Fam. member working in schools also. Another is at a big office at our largest building downtown, and working at busy restaurant on weekends. (This concerns me, dirty plates, not great hygeine at the place). Will report.
Blessings all, wash hands, watch the doors, car doors, gas pumps, etc. Think germs.

Dang. Hope your kid feels better soon. :(

That's a long time to have the flu.

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In Centerville OH, a large school district south side of Dayton area down the road from WPAFB the entire district was shut down multiple days last week because things had gotten so bad that over 600 kids were absent from the HS alone in one day. They shut down to "disinfect" the schools there. But why just one district and not adjacent ones?

Conversely, if you observe the districts out of school for TN and KY and know the geography well enough you'll notice that an entire swath of adjacent counties just north of Knoxville area all the way up to Berea KY about 40 mins south of Lexington were all closed due to illness Friday and most of them still on 2/3 along the I 75 corridor. Why just that extended, relatively isolated rural region? But the public school systems in both Knoxville and Lexington were fine?

Something is going on. How it relates to the bioweapon virus out of Wuhan remains to be seen.

So how many schools closed?

someone earlier on this thread said schools had closings like this in 2017-2018 so this seems to be nothing new. maybe these closing are all just done out of an (I hate this phrase) "abundance of caution" and the timing of which is a coincidence.

Add Ohio:

Immaculate conception in Dayton
and

Franklin City Schools
Due to "illness"

So, the entire state at this point?

Added the schools.

Last Edited by TlvmmCpoft on 02/05/2020 04:35 AM

Why is the word flu in quotation marks?

We do not live in a society that is built on honesty or forthrightness.