COVID and the Classroom special: What you need to know about sending kids back to school

CTV News Channel airs a comprehensive look at an unprecedented back-to-school season. Hear from CTV Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, teachers, parents and students as kids get ready to return to class.

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38 comments

  1. Regular mask wearing is causing all types of various illness and disease. Some very serious. Skin infections where moist exhaled air becomes trapped causes inflammation and infection. Candidiasis of the lips and mouth from the moist warm air. Fungal lung pneumonia is also skyrocketing due to mask use.
    We are not meant to wear coverings over our faces. Period.

    1. @Sean Mahoney CCRNs do not work in nursing homes, no. Furthermore, the courts literally ruled, in a court of law, that masks (including n95s), do not protect against any virus. The Ontario Nurses Association provided the courts with expert witnesses, including: epidemiologists, virologists, pulmonologist, the mask manufacturer experts etc. The courts ruled, based on this expert evidence, that the masks do nothing.
      Period.

    2. @Sean Mahoney The masks do, however, increase the rates of bacterial and fungal infections of the: lips, underlying skin and lungs.

    3. @Jon Tron Oh yes, the courts. Another excellent source of medical advice. They ruled wearing blue socks causes toe fungus.

    1. @Sean Mahoney Jeez, You really are responding to every comment Silly Sean. Im starting to think this is Tams burner account!!! How is it you have nothing better to do lol

    2. I didn’t find this to be propaganda. Did you watch long enough to see them speak with mothers who are keeping their kids home and why?

    3. Yes. And it’s still propaganda in my opinion.( degree in advertising and marketing, father, teacher, … the entire covid over reaction. And what about fathers hummmm. Why just mothers…. Just playing… Cause I’m not a wiener who want to make a big deal about nothing. I appreciate your comment but honestly look at the data and facts. The chances of your kids getting eaten swimming in the gulf are more dangerous than the virus… but you let them swim anyways.

    4. @R F The parents decisions have already been made. This is meant to be an attempt to reassure parents on both sides of the fence and, as a father who is keeping his daughter home for the time being, I found it to be fairly balanced. The exact opposite of propaganda. The fact is that there are still many unknowns and I, for one, would like to wait a couple months to see how the experiment works out.

      EDIT – Also it’s not always just the kids at risk. For example, I rely heavily on my parents and in laws to pick my daughter up from school (she’s 5). I would hate to have her pass it on to them.

    5. Jakyre1983 Fair enough. Everyone gets an opinion. But when it messes with my everyday life and my country. It’s. Not ok. If your afraid go and look at the data and really do your research. This machine has more cogs than we can count now and most of them are counter productive. My pregnant wife is a working nurse… has had cancer … my parents pick up my kids all the time. We are still alive. Hummm

  2. “These data all suggest that children are not significant drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unclear why documented SARS-CoV-2
    transmission from children to other children or adults is so infrequent.” – COVID-19 Transmission and Children: The Child Is Not to Blame
    – American Academy of Pediatrics – Aug 1, 2020

    1. I didn’t find this to be propaganda at all. Did you watch long enough to see them speak with mothers who are keeping their kids home and why? I found it was fairly well balanced.

  3. Anyone with an ounce of brains isnt going to be sending their children back to any Government federa/state funded indoctrination camp after what we have all witnessed over the last 7 months. In fact parents should be going to town council meetings and demanding to see the entire curiculum being taught to their children in public scools and studying it all. Clearly they are not being taught what parents think they are being taught.

  4. They will implement panic in the news and lockdowns during the school day. Any children in school will be forced to quarantine in the building, effectively holding children hostage from their parents.

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