Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school.

Less than two weeks into the school year, a Kentucky school district has canceled in-person classes for the rest of the week after nearly a fifth of its students came down with Covid, strep throat, the flu and other illnesses.

The Lee County School District, which has just under 900 students, began classes Aug. 9 but noticed attendance drop to about 82% on Friday, Superintendent Earl Ray Schuler said.

By Monday, the rate dipped to 81%, and 14 staff members called in sick, Schuler said.

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    Covid won’t shut things down, that only happened because we didn’t have a defense against it and how bad it would be. Turns out it wasn’t that bad except for select groups of people too stupid to get vaccinated.

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      Vaccination makes you a carrier, it isn’t magical virus killer juice.

      Covid is virulent enough that at endemic capacity, it will mutate too wildly to keep up with vaccination.

      We shut down to stop it from being endemic, but idiots couldn’t be bothered to mask up and social distance, so it went endemic.

      Mark my words, wave 3 is coming for everyone.

      Edit: I need to say I got the vaccinations.

      They reduce fatality.

      What I’m not jazzed about is endless boosters because of dipshits.

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      It was quite bad until we 1) got an effective vaccine and 2) the post-Delta mutations became less deadly over-all. If we get another bad mutation things could get ugly again.