COVID-19: OhMyCronus!

The study itself didn't get published, but criticism of it did:

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1216

Two notes: my memory failed me. 70% not 80%, and it was all infections not just asymptomatic ones. And the model asymptomatic properties are omitted in the critique -- but the doctor in our WhatsApp said that's what the expectation was.

A UCL study from October 2020 was using the 80% asymptomatic stat:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/apr...uggests-78-people-covid-19-dont-show-symptoms

And, of course, @marek could go read through this forum's earlier covid threads and see just how many times "asymptomatic" pops up.

But doing that would be work, and work is clearly hard.

 

I'm not a philosopher but that sounds a little dramatic. I could see if you lost these things that you identify yourself around for a decade then it may lead to an identity crisis, but some of those quotes were clearly uttered in the first few weeks of the pandemic.

For e.g. I'm pretty sure teachers can do without teaching for a few months and still know who they are. They have 3 months of no teaching every summer (and love it!).

 

Our top doctor in BC got it almost spot on. We only closed schools April to June 2020 and 1 week in January 2022 when Omicron first exploded here, following Christmas holidays. Otherwise we never closed schools.

 

Well, teaching just moved online, which did result in some discombobulation for a lot of people, since online teaching isn't the same thing.

And as far as summers go, there might not be teaching unless someone has summer classes, but there's usually a fair amount of preparation for the upcoming year. For me, it goes from routine 60 hour weeks during Fall and Spring semesters to 20 hour weeks for a few months of summer.

To be sure, there are a lot of people who mail it in on the summer. And others who work harder than that.

 

I've never tested positive despite that my wife and stepdaughter tested positive multiple times. I was exposed and did test positive for the anti-bodies when giving blood.

 

I prefer doorknobs, but clearly YMMV.

 

You're doing it wrong! Have you learned nothing during this pandemic?

Now you're talking!

 

For sure. I am not bashing teachers. Teachers were just used in an example from that NY Times article I was quoting.

The quotes used in that article have obviously been taken from people speaking at a moment of increased stress and frustration (and obviously taken at the very onset of the pandemic as it refers to contaminated elevator buttons and nobody travelling between the Bronx and Manhattan), and the author just went off on a complete tangent about identity crisis.

 

About a year ago I briefly dated a doctor and she worked in the Covid unit at the start. She said she definitely picked up PTSD from her time there and said it was a relief when she moved to a private practice.

 

Fair points. And I didn't interpret it as a bash. And I probably didn't read more than half the article, if that much.

But I won't let not knowing what I'm talking about stop me from posting. This IS the internet, after all. As they say, "when in Rome . . . ".

 

And as a reward he got to travel constantly doing speaking engagements and answering critics, just what every man dreams of doing in his elder years. Damn you Fauci!

 

I invite you to ask a teacher who had to remote teach.

 

I read it!

 

I know several teachers. Their job became more difficult and stressful, but identity crisis? Come on...

 

Man, that is so badass from Fauci.

 

Depends what you mean by identity crisis.. It forced a lot of teachers out of teaching. People who thought teaching was their thing and wrapped up a lot of the identity in being a teacher.

 

I do teach remotely. I have been teaching remotely since March, 2020.

I ONLY teach remotely now.

I still teach in Chicago because I can teach remotely.

I will admit that I prefer to teach live and face-to-face, but one can adapt.

 

Like you I've only taught remotely since the pandemic started.

Unlike you I prefer it!

 

I think that the point is more broadly K-12 than University/College level.

Every elementary teacher I know (granted, it's Utah where our state piles on teachers every which way) doesn't like remote teaching.

High school, it kind of depends on the subject and teaching style about how strongly they feel about it, but again, most are not excited about remote teaching.