Coeur d'Alene School Board opts against mask mandate

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Tue., Sept. 14, 2021
By Greg Mason

A divided Coeur d’Alene School Board opted against requiring students to wear face coverings amid a spike of COVID-19 cases in North Idaho that is forcing hospitals to ration care.

Members of the district’s Board of Trustees voted 3-2 Monday night for a COVID-19 reopening plan that “strongly recommends” – not requires – masks ...

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/sep/13/coeur-dalene-school-board-opts-against-mask-mandat/

[BigmanPigman]

1. Further proof that they don't even care about their own kids.

We knew they didn't care about kids in general when nothing was done about guns after elementary and high schools had mass shootings and murders. The anti-mask, anti-vax, pro-Q Anon group is the most incredibly selfish group in America.

[struggle4progress]

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[gratuitous]

2. We strongly recommend that everyone drive in the right lane

That should be good enough, right? "Everyone knows" you're supposed to drive on the right in the United States. Until some asshole in a hurry goes speeding down the street in the (mostly) empty left lane because there ain't no law against it. The other car in the head-on collision he caused probably had it coming anyway.

[ananda]

3. Well, at least they know the kids won't get treatment.

Idaho is in a hospital crisis.

[Turbineguy]

4. Taking part

in what may become known as the Great American Die-off.

[royable]

5. When will the three members of the Board of Trustees be charged with voluntary manslaughter? n/t

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6. ... Kootenai Health in the city of Coeur d'Alene was the first hospital in the state

to officially enter crisis standards of care last week.

At the time, Chief of Staff Dr. Robert Scoggins said some patients were being treated in a conference center that had been converted into a field hospital. Others received treatment in hallways or in converted emergency room lobbies ...

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/16/1037987107/idaho-rations-health-care-statewide-covid-19-coronavirus-hospital

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7. ... Kootenai Health said it has stretched existing staff, hired additional contract nurses,

expanded bed capacity, canceled elective surgeries and adjusted care to accommodate the COVID-19 patient surges and volume demands.

The hospital is scheduled to receive additional staffing from the Department of Defense ...

https://www.kpax.com/news/coronavirus/coeur-dalene-hospital-hard-hit-by-covid-19-surge

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8. ... At .. Kootenai Health, 97% of COVID patients are unvaccinated and all of the intensive care

unit beds are filled.

Part-time North Idaho resident Ed Crosby's brother-in-law, who recently took a hard fall and hit his head, had to wait two days for an ICU bed to open up at Kootenai Health ...

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/12/1035986659/idahos-hospitals-are-overwhelmed-but-many-locals-remain-skeptical-of-vaccines