The US is very worried about Corona 19 these days. Parents are more concerned than ever, especially with President Trump forcing the school to start offline. Is school really safe?

President Trump said, "The federal government will send 125 million reusable masks to schools across the United States." Would getting a mask relieve the worry of parents and teachers? American locals asked what they thought.

I asked Mr. S, 47, from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, a mother in elementary and middle school students. "Do you plan to send your son and daughter to school?" The answer back was short, but it fully explained the parents' feelings. "I've been running online classes in the meantime, and I don't plan on sending my kids to school at this point. I'm not going to send them until a definite cure is available."


Mrs. B, who lives in South Carolina, had a similar idea. "I'm scared and scared. I don't want to send my kids to school. The school expects that at most 75% of the students will go to school," he said.

O, who lives in New York, has a similar idea. “The school tells students to go to school, but it’s scary. I’m worried even if I wear a mask and wash my hands thoroughly.” There seems to be no parents in the United States who will comfortably send their children to school.

You can understand the hearts of parents by looking at the results of a poll conducted by the Associated Press and the University of Chicago Public Opinion Research Center on 1,057 adults in the United States last month. Only 8% of respondents said they can attend elementary, middle and high school in the fall semester. Only 8%! On the other hand, 31% said they should not start school in the fall semester.


It's also a matter of going to school. In the United States, many students go to school on a school bus. But Lucy Pov has recently grown anxiety. This is because my daughter, who had been going to school on the school bus without any problem until last year, received a call that she could not use the bus from this fall. This is because, according to the standards published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, only a quarter of the 6,000 students who used school buses would use the bus. It is intended to reduce the risk of infection by reducing the number of students using the bus. The school plans to provide bus services mainly to students with disabilities or low-income students.

Mr. Forb, who goes to work every morning, is a big concern. If you want to go to school for your kids and then go to work, you'll have two hours longer to go to work and leave each day.

Not only this. Only 12 people were allowed on school buses in Austin Texas. In Philadelphia, the plan is to allow only 11 to 15 people on the bus. Up to half or a third of students will not be able to use the school bus.

So how do the rest of the students go to school? There is only one way. This is how you get to school in your parent's car.

School starts on the 26th, but there are no special measures yet. Ionian middle schools
require six times the number of buses in order for all students to ride the bus to school. However, schools do not have such an economical margin. There is no way to do it right now.

The school bus driver is not the only one who complains. They argue that the authorities and schools do not consider the driver's safety at all and push ahead with the policy. They claim that working hours have increased but not breaks. In addition, there is a strong demand for the installation of partitions to separate the buses for the safety of drivers and students. This, too, has not been resolved for over a month.


President Trump said at a press conference: "Children are not easily infected with Corona 19. They do not even bring Corona 19 into their home. Even if they are infected, they recover easily." That's hard to believe. Dr. Heald-Saint of the Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital in the United States said that up to 100 times more corona19 virus genetic material was detected in the upper respiratory tract of infants under the age of 5 infected with Corona 19 than adults.

Research has shown that the more genetic material is detected, the more the virus can spread. In addition, studies have shown that children with a large amount of respiratory syncytial virus, which cause acute respiratory infections, are more likely to transmit infectious diseases.

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