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Kind of unbelievable. They are demanding their gun rights and a Trump is publicly encouraging the protests...

New evidence also suggests immunity is temporary for the Coronavirus, we may see waves each winter until vaccines are here.

Alright, they’re on a day a week starting week 3 which at some points turns into two days a week. This will create maximum chaos for teachers and they will have to teach in all three modes. As for health side, I’d agree that this probably won’t cause cases to increase much until a more...

Check the silly mistakes. If you’ve had a reasonable go at the unanswered questions, chances are you aren’t going to get them with 5 more minutes.

Yes you do raise a good point and I went back to check some of the studies and news.com.au did inflate some of the figures. It does remain that some portion of the fully asymptomatic cases can transmit the virus, in some cases to many people mostly in the case of doctors, and very sadly, also in...

New evidence has recently come to light from multiple studies about the role that asymptomatic transmission, links can be found in the article below. “In one Washington State nursing home, 56 per cent of those who tested positive for COVID-19 had no symptoms. Aboard the Diamond Princess cruise...

Regarding the issue of schools, probably either they reopen around August, or not until at least midway next year (or they reopen August and then reclose). Now it’s looking increasingly like the government pretty much has one shot of getting us out (i.e eradication) and if they screw up (or it...

I feel like the most telling figure they should release is number of close contacts not tested. Would give a sense of the magnitude of unknown cases out there

Yes, exams cannot be fairly converted to assignments on a limited timeframes. You would imagine that many are able to source help from subject experts, thereby artificially advantaging them against peers that do/can not choose such an option. A better option would be to weigh previous tasks...

Many schools have chosen to suspend assessment tasks so have only one set, and furthermore many chose to hold so called “depth studies” and the required “mathematical assignment or investigation style task” in the previous term. As you may imagine, these tasks do not assess the content outcomes...

The reason that students at encouraged to stay home in NSW, or the reason so claimed, is that it is “impractical” to simultaneously hold online and in school classes, and it applies only to lessons. There is no issue of “practicality” for sitting exams, as they cannot be coordinated from home...

Exams are not necessarily postponed; note that the health advice is that it is safe to go to school. Schools can require students to attend insofar as the schools are open.

The guardian does not accurately reflect NESA’s statements, which only indicate that students will receive HSC certificate with no mention of ATAR. This may be through solely school assessments, a combination of school and HSC exams, or HSC exams only. I suspect that they will proceed with the...

I suspect that we will see changes to this stance as the numbers rise exponentially. However I have to admit that their desire to maintain students’ education even in such difficult times is very admirable.

They say the true doubling rate is pretty stable at about 6 days. The reason you see rapid increases in other countries is an artefact of recent increases in testing. Looks like we’re down Netherlands trajectory, 4000 ish in one week.

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With 2020 being the first year to assess these courses, what are your thoughts so far? Right off the bat, we have seen major topic rearrangements (removal of conics, volumes, harder 3U i.e no geometry, polynomials, graphing), (reduction of mechanics i.e no circular motion), (introduction of...