Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Lets start off with a topic we talked about earlier in the program. Wrote, why its mostly safe to reopen the schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classroom and the evidence from europe shows no wider harms. As you see the schools opening across the country, has your opinion changed on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . I would say the reopening experience we had thus far confirms and is consistent with the evidence weve had around the world and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12. For reasons we dont fully understand, younger children dont appear to not only are they actually themselves at very serious illness or death from covid19 but they also appear to not transmit the virus to adults and this is counterintuitive for a lot of people. Most of us have been parents are used to our kids picking up whatever bug is going around at school and bring it back to us. The idea that coronavirus doesnt wo
Schools. Younger children urgently need to get back to their classrooms. The evidence from europe shows no wider harms. Its more complicated with older students. Has your opinion changed any on that and what were you trying to get at in your opinion piece . Guest i would say that the reopening experience we have had thus far in the United States actually confirms and is consistent with the evidence that we have had around the world, and that evidence is overwhelming when it comes to children under the age of 12 that for reasons we obviously do not yet fully understand, younger children, particularly preadolescent children, do not appear not only are they themselves are very low risk of serious death from covid19 but they also appear to virus tomit the adults. This is counterintuitive to a lot of people. Most of us are used to our kids going to school, picking up whatever bug is going around school, and bringing it back to us. The idea that covid19 does not work that way, you know, its
Out just a tinge of that yellow to orange definitely nothing like the neon that much of a side yesterday and its kind of refreshing just to see something closer to normal because yesterday was just eerie across the region air quality not good we are seeing port a very poor conditions and even though it might smell fresh worst thing ash falling just look at your car you can see the ash thats fallen on it. Thats all you need to know to say hey i need to put some mask or Face Covering on just as weve gotten used to this year. Now why is it continuing to be so smoky. Well a couple days ago we saw those strong winds from the north that really put up some extra growth and wildfire such as the august and north complexes and any sort of smoke was pushed or write down our direction now winds have calmed down so that smoke that was pushing direction is staying with us yesterday as i mentioned it was a little higher up any sort of light that was pushed through blue light was reflected and all tha
A vote now scheduled in the coming days so could the current social movement be the Tipping Point for historic vote all right its time to boost your i q. Tension is building over International Waters near the coast of alaska after the United States says it intercepted another fleet of russian bombers but while the u. S. Claims the flight was too close for comfort russia claims it went according to schedule r. T. Is Rachel Blevins is joining us now to break this all down for us so rachel what is russia said about this incident so far well the Russian Defense ministry is saying this was a scheduled flight and they say that a no point did they deviate from their plan to fly off the coast of siberia and alaska and they actually released footage from this incident which shows one of their 4. 00 to 95. 00 bombers on the mission. And it then shows the u. S. 22. 00 fighter jets that shadow their aircraft during part of the patrol now take a look at just how close those fighter jets get to the