Is archive.today not working for you? AernaLingus’s comment has the CBS news link.

  • bumblebeehellbringer [fae/faer, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Not that this type of action is going to be taken or anything, but measures should be taken to protect kids from the virus. We are in an ongoing pandemic that will last longer than any of us will. The ways schools function currently is terrible for transmission of disease. Large class sizes, cramped classes, hallways and passing times where everyone is packed into halls together, poor ventilation etc., make schools horrible when it comes to airborne disease. Kids deserve better!

    And, we should have a functioning society that can adjust when problems come up, and, gasp anticipate problems and spend money and resources to prevent them before they occur, instead of sending every last cent to our capitalist overlords. If we lived in a remotely sane society, we could adjust how we do things to protect our kids from the plague. We as a society should be making and implementing plans for how to protect our children, like having smaller class sizes, bringing back masking and online school, testing and quarantining protocols, updated tests, and expanded support resources for kids.

    It’s insane that what is happening instead is that kids are being ushered back into high risk environments, year after year, to get killed by the plague, given long-term severe health consequences, and experience the trauma of their friends dying of disease and to get used to the idea that being forced into situations of great and avoidable risk is normal and unavoidable.

    The capitalist class, however, has decided that schools are to be cheap babysitting and indoctrination facilities. And the capitalists don’t care if the working class and the children die. They’ve invested in hospitals and the medical systems, and healthcare costs so much that they can strip the wealth from anyone who gets sick. And when the people die, the capitalists don’t care either- they can replace them with the new people they’ve forced into existence by banning abortion.

    Edited to break up text for readability.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      20·
      10 months ago

      I like your comment but I have a suggestion. When I mention this issue at reddit - redditors often get mad and shit on me but I’m right. Smaller paragraphs are much easier to read. I try to stay under ~420 characters. Sometimes I write comments in my text editor. And two lines of text are ~420. And when I edit somebody else’s comment to make smaller paragraphs I use the ~420 number too.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          8·
          10 months ago

          It annoys me when I try to read a New Yorker (etc) article and the editor must think that longer paragraphs have gravitas if the paragraphs are insanely too long. I can’t read a ~4,000 word article where every damn paragraph is 10+ times as long as it should be.

          I’m not a programmer but I did figure out a PC workaround. I copy the article as text, make it into smaller paragraphs by hand which is incredibly annoying, and then I can easily convert the “just text” into a html page on my PC so I can read the fucking thing. I’ll check out the links, photos, vid - on the original webpage.

          • bumblebeehellbringer [fae/faer, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            When I read large paragraphs, I scroll so that the line I’m reading is always at the very top or very bottom of the window. That way, it’s easier for my brain to pick out which line to focus on. The downside is that it’s annoying on sites that have pop-up headers.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    Makes sense school is starting in some places just post summer vacations. I would guess that it’s like this for every school year with any virus, its just that COVID is so much more impactful and dangerous to kids than the cold is

  • NeelixBiederman [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    Probably the second or third time for some of these kids, and for those who were already at-risk, this is the consequence of our failed, murderous policies

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    10 months ago

    Since archive.is hasn’t been working for me (and seemingly a lot of other people) lately, here’s a non-archive link (I’m only guessing that this is the article since I can’t get through to the archive page–hope it’s the right one):

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-reports-new-rise-covid-er-visits-adolescents-as-schools-resume/

    Full text

    As schools resume, CDC reports new rise in COVID emergency room visits from adolescents

    By Alexander Tin

    Updated on: August 25, 2023 / 11:11 AM / CBS News

    Reports of COVID-19 in emergency room visits from adolescents have nearly doubled over the past week, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows, reaching levels not seen in a year.

    Measured as a share of all emergency room visits in children ages 12 to 15 years old, the figures published late Thursday by the CDC show weekly COVID-19 averages have accelerated to 2.43% through August 21. 

    Rates of COVID-19 ER visits in these adolescents have increased from 1.33% the week before, and are now higher than levels seen among most other age groups except for the youngest and the oldest Americans.

    By contrast, over last winter’s wave, rates of ER visits from 12 to 15 year olds were among the lowest compared to other ages. ER visits have not been higher in this age group compared to others since around this time last year, amid a large wave of infections that strained some hospitals.

    The increase comes as schools and businesses are now weighing a return to masks and other precautions to curb the virus, amid a weeks-long rise in new COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide that is projected to continue. Officials are also now tracking a new, highly-mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 that experts think might fuel further spread.

    Close to 10 million Americans are now in communities at “medium” COVID-19 levels that the CDC says warrants considering returning to masking and some other precautions for at-risk Americans. 

    While not all emergency room visits turn into hospital admissions for COVID-19, officials say they have closely tracked this metric as an early indicator of the spread of the virus, especially after official case counts became unreliable to measure infections.

    COVID-19 ER visits look worst in the Southeast, where the virus now makes up 4.46% of visits in adolescents – higher than rates seen in any other age group in the region.

    This region – spanning Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee – had also reported earlier and steeper rises in COVID-19 hospital admissions for the current wave, compared to many other parts of the country.

    “The increase in cases is likely due to a variety of factors such as schools and colleges starting, high temperatures sending people indoors for activities where they may be in closer proximity to each other, and new variants circulating,” Dr. Kathryn Taylor, Mississippi’s interim state epidemiologist, told CBS News in a statement.

    Within the Southeast, Mississippi’s rate of COVID-19 emergency room visits for adolescents is now averaging among the highest of any state. Taylor said that increasing COVID-19 cases mean a greater risk of being exposed to the virus.

    “Mississippians should continue to be aware that COVID-19 is a concern, stay home when ill, seek care or testing when indicated, and if not already up to date on vaccination, get vaccinated,” Taylor said.

    That is a grim fucking graph