We are not ready for school opening

It is more fun criticizing

After listening and reading many stories about school reopening,  that it will be conducted  via distance learning I am convinced that we are not ready:

1.   The school authorities and even senior leadership could not decide nor determine the exact mode, medium of instruction:  TV, transistor radio, internet.  There is a wide variance on availability of internet signal and facilities nationwide

2.  Are they ready with the materials - videos, syllabus exercises?   Will they have enough time to train the professors, teachers instructors?  When I attempted to conduct instruction via social media, I had to spend a great deal of time preparing ppt and other research.  Is this being done

3.  Will this be effective?  In one TV forum, the President of a School council expressed his doubts on this online instruction.  It will take a great deal of effort on the  part of the instructor to get the student attention glued to the computer.  O a great deal of TV direction

I understand many parents wont take the risk of sending children to school, or what could amount to total waste of time and money

Many quarters would like to see school reopen because a great deal of money would be lost by schools and their personnel.  Billions probably. 

Safety advice for reopening

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From WSJ - safety advice for reopening after lockdown

Its really a balance between reopening the economy and saving lives.  Shall people die from Covid19 or from hunger and famine.

Countries are in a hurry to open economy despite the risk of 2nd wave or resurgence.   This despite having high number of cases in US (Singapore, Philippine)

Japan successfully battled covid 19 without forced lockdown but by convincing citizens to avoid 3c:

       1.  Close personal contact
       2.  Crowds
       3.  Closed spaces

where droplets in plumes or aerosols and infect individuals with minimum  infection dose.

1.   Going back to work -   test individuals, social distancing,  wearing face mask avoiding the plumes at CR

2.   Commuting  -  social distancing, wearing of face masks,

3.   Supermarkets -  have the products delivered instead. 

3.   Restaurants -  judicious social distancing, hand sanitizing.