Editor’s Note: Be sure to read this article all the way to the end. YOU will be shocked at what I have discovered.
Properly educating the children in our society, or any society, is the Number 1 Priority of any right-thinking citizen anywhere on the face of this Planet we call Earth. Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA is no exception. Every citizen, taxpayer and parent have the right, expectation, obligation and goal to see that our children are properly educated. Not just the School board.
However, this has to be said, Citizens, Parents, Teachers, the School Board and Government as a whole; everybody should be working toward that very same goal. Get our children educated. That is the purpose of this article. To review the data, evaluate it as related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and make recommendations to restart Cleveland County Schools. Recognizing the fact that COVID-19 is a political football that has been fumbled many times by many factions of government. Including the CDC, Presidential Elections, the Cleveland County Health Department, the previous CCS School Board, the NEW CCS School Board and everybody else who can get as much funding as they can out of the Federal government.
Evaluation Parameters:
In this evaluation we have to first, remember this: exact “science” did not shut down Cleveland County Schools in March of 2020. There were ZERO cases of COVID in Cleveland County at that time. Also remember that the number of flu cases has dropped significantly during this time interval. Health officials say the drop in flu cases is due to the precautions (washing hands, wearing masks and social distancing) taken due to COVID. If that were true, why did the COVID pandemic not diminish too?
Also remember the news media reported cities like New York and Los Angeles had their hospitals so over-run with COVID cases that President Trump sent 1,000 bed Hospital Ships to each city and they neither city used even 10 percent of those ships’ capacity. These ships were so underutilized that they were finally taken away. Therefore, we have to realize that much of the scare involving COVID is being fluffed-up by fake news and political strategies. We have to take that into consideration in our school restart science and go from there.
First, the Data:
The Cleveland County Health Department, according to their own words, say:
1-13-2021
Let’s evaluate this January 13, 2021 “snapshot” data:
1 Total Cases: 8,115.
These total cases represent the number of cases since last March, when there was Zero cases and School were shut down anyway, until January 13, 2021. Since no COVID 10 tests were available until later that March 2020, this number, by itself is meaningless, except for scare tactics, for predicting anything regarding when to restart schools. Yet, every COVID update given at CCS School Board meetings start with this updated meaningless number. The “science” of any COVID data must be related to the “trend” of cases. Up or down.
2. Prior day cases: 69
This is a good starting point for an accurate analysis the trend in COVID Cases.
3. New Cases in last 7 days: 802
This is also a good starting Point for an accurate analysis of the trend in COVID cases.
4. Estimated number of recovered cases: 7,145
This number, like the total number of cases in item 1 goes all the way back to March or 2020 and is a meaningless number for projecting when to restart schools. However, it might be a good way to validate the accuracy of the Health Department numbers. Let’s see.
If there are 8,115 total cases and 7,145 Recovered cases, what are the un-recovered cases? Deaths? These numbers would indicate there were 970 deaths in Cleveland County due to COVID from March 2020 until January 13, 2021. The listed total Deaths in Cleveland County on this report is 169.
What does this indicate? Something is bad wrong with the data coming out of the Cleveland County Health Department