Many countries have been back to school for quite some time – Germany, Israel, and Thailand since beginning of summer. Overall it has not been the super spreader event as many have alluded to in the US. Nor does the current data show that to be the case. However there are things one can do to make it so it wont be like that.

Thailand has done an amazing job of keeping deaths to a minimum. Lessons need to be learned from them. As I scrolled the various Thailand School articles – one thing I do notice is windows in every classroom. Modern day enclosed buildings are not what you will see for their classrooms. They are doing mask, temp testing, and table separations. https://www.unicef.org/thailand/stories/school-reopening-how-teachers-and-students-are-adjusting-new-normal-thailand

“All children are required to have their temperature checked before getting on the bus, register with their teachers and clean their hands with alcohol-based hand sanitizers at the school’s screening point. Some teachers stand by with hand-held thermometers to check the temperatures of children accompanied by their parents. The children then clean their hands with hand sanitizer and receive a stamp reading “PASS” on their wrist, after which they are allowed to enter classrooms.”

“They wore masks while studying, desks were set further apart, and morning activities were cancelled to prevent large gatherings. All of these practices were implemented in line with the safe school guidelines and teacher manuals developed by UNICEF, the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Public Health, with assistance from the Government of Japan.”

Germany is noting that they are opening windows. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN25S4L4?__twitter_impression=true

“Doors and windows are kept open as much as possible.”

Here in the Houston area CFISD for the rooms with access to outdoors are opening them on a timed basis. If this continues into the winter expect energy use to rise.

US deaths below 500 – but it would seem the media is all focused on confirmation.

FL leads death with 54 – Wisconsin leads in confirmation at 7K!

Unlike most states with huge confirmations there is no leading county in Wisconsin. In fact the leading county is Cook IL at 1286 which is also tied with Miami-Dade as the leading death county at 7

For all the negative publicity in confirmation the Big 4 counties confirmations are low – you have to go back to early June the last time confirmations were this low in those counties

All these new states showing confirmation – it correlates very well with lowering temps – they need to open up the windows – pay more on electricity/gas – where is this message?

Overall confirmations are rising and so is our testing. The positive thing is last time we observed confirmation rising the deaths did not follow even though we were told that it would happen. Hopefully this time we can continue the trend of reducing deaths.

On a world view confirmations rise but we have maintained deaths so earlier extrapolations never occurred – as confirmations are 5X they are since April but deaths are actually less now than that time period.