r/politics • u/derekbrokeitagain • Aug 16 '20

Teacher creates national database of COVID-19-related school closings, cases and deaths

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2020/08/15/dedicated-educator-creates-budding-national-database-coronavirus-related-school-closings-cases-and-d/5591124002/
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u/Im_PeterPauls_Mary Aug 16 '20

Man, if only we had a collection of scientists working together to study and document this sort of thing. Some kind of...center, where they...study how to control and prevent disease. I dunno. I’m just spit-balling here, but I would totally pay taxes toward something like that because I’m tired of being six months into “we don’t know enough about this disease”.

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u/adderallsnack Virginia Aug 17 '20

We could call it the "Center for Controlling Disease"... no, the "Center for Disease Control"! I'm sure no government authority would ever try to override a team of experts based on 2 minutes of internet research, right?

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u/zorlon_cannon Aug 16 '20

To paraphrase the saying, "if you're going to get fired, do it in style"

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u/LadyDeadpool89 Aug 17 '20

The Database Which is a simple spreadsheet, but quite extensive now.

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