{"id":185966,"date":"2021-03-01T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185966"},"modified":"2021-03-01T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T03:00:38","slug":"barcodes-bookbags-microsoft-teams-up-with-schools-to-create-covid-daily-pass-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barcodes-bookbags-microsoft-teams-up-with-schools-to-create-covid-daily-pass-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcodes &amp; Bookbags: Microsoft Teams Up With Schools To Create Covid \u2018Daily Pass\u2019 For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarcodes-bookbags-microsoft-teams-up-with-schools-to-create-covid-daily-pass-for-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=185966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bill-Gates-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with the Los Angeles Unified School District to bring students a Covid-19-related \u201ccomprehensive system\u201d called \u201cDaily Pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The system requires children to be scanned into school with their own unique QR code: their \u201cDaily Pass.\u201d If a student doesn\u2019t have their barcode, they cannot get into school. And per the district, students will also still be wearing masks, staying six feet apart from one another and getting temperature checks outside the school.<\/p>\n<p>There are nearly half a million students in the\u00a0Los Angeles Unified School District, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade.<\/p>\n<p>To earn their safe-for-school Daily Pass, students and staffers must answer questions online and test negative for the novel coronavirus every week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaily Pass generates a unique QR code for each student and staff member, and that code authorizes entry to a specific LAUSD location for that day only \u2014 as long as the individual receives a negative test result for COVID, shows no symptoms and has a temperature under 100 degrees, the district said,\u201d\u00a0NBC Los Angeles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/coronavirus\/southern-california-coronavirus\/lausd-daily-pass-health-check-system-schools-education\/2532697\/\">outlined<\/a>. \u201cUpon the individual\u2019s arrival to a campus, their QR code is scanned by a district school-site leader, who takes the individual\u2019s temperature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is also a section on the Daily Pass portal that seeks to get students and staffers vaccinated, from most at-risk to least at-risk. \u00a0You can schedule your child\u2019s vaccination via the portal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnonymous data from Daily Pass will be used by the Los Angeles Unified\u2019s research and health care collaborators \u2014 Stanford University, UCLA, The Johns Hopkins University, Anthem Blue Cross, Healthnet and Cedars Sinai \u2014 to provide insights for strategies to create the safest possible school environment,\u201d NBC Los Angeles reported.<\/p>\n<p>Schools have not been shown to significantly spread the virus and some studies have found children are not at a significant risk of contracting the disease. Still, the promotional video for Daily Pass paints a different picture (see below). A scared child is only put at ease when she fills out her Daily Pass information, gets her unique barcode, stays six-feet away from her peers, and is scanned into school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, I\u2019m scared about going back to school,\u201d the child says in the video. \u201cI don\u2019t wanna get sick, and I don\u2019t wanna get you and dad sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After she\u2019s scanned into school, the girl tells her father, \u201cDad, I have to admit, I was scared at first, but then I felt so safe. It was so good to be back. Thanks for keeping me safe. I love you so much.<\/p>\n<p>Last July,\u00a0Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-director-threat-of-suicide-drugs-flu-to-youth-far-greater-than-covid\">advocated<\/a> the return of students to school,\u00a0highlighting the low coronavirus risk for children without preexisting conditions and the unfortunate spike in suicides and drug overdoses as schools remained closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not risk of school openings versus public health. It\u2019s public health versus public health,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckinstitute.org\/covid-webinar-series-transcript-robert-redfield-md\/\">asserted<\/a> Redfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m of the point of view and I weigh that equation as an individual that has 11 grandchildren that the greater risk is actually to the nation to keep these schools closed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Still, schools across the country remain shut out from in-person learning.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was founded by billionaire Bill Gates, who\u2019s become a media favorite as he weighs in on all things related to the coronavirus, from masks to vaccines to the Covid-19 relief bill.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing climate activist and\u00a0philanthropist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/13\/technology\/bill-gates-microsoft-board.html\">stepped down<\/a> from Microsoft\u2019s board in March of last year, but still remains one of the largest shareholders in the company with roughly 1.3 percent of the company\u2019s shares \u2014 an estimated worth of $16 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/13\/technology\/bill-gates-microsoft-board.html\">According<\/a> to a statement released by the billionaire last March, Gates intended to \u201cremain active at the company and would work closely with Satya Nadella, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft will always be an important part of my life\u2019s work and I will continue to be engaged with Satya and the technical leadership to help shape the vision and achieve the company\u2019s ambitious goals. I feel more optimistic than ever about the progress the company is making,\u201d wrote Gates.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thanks I hate it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/snggU5R4sv\">pic.twitter.com\/snggU5R4sv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jessica O\u2019Donnell (@heckyessica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heckyessica\/status\/1366518090163453956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To view the complete promotional video, <a href=\"https:\/\/lausd.wistia.com\/medias\/fil2ny4jfb?fbclid=IwAR15P2Cq6bQjIotia5MIXiwYULlS4Chy043gDKx5NRAw7wyO_nVrKq5N0Es?wtime=0\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with the Los Angeles Unified School District to bring students a Covid-19-related \u201ccomprehensive system\u201d called \u201cDaily Pass.\u201d The system requires children to be scanned into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274517,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bill-Gates-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Barcodes &amp; Bookbags: Microsoft Teams Up With Schools To Create Covid \u2018Daily Pass\u2019 For Kids","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Bill-Gates-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Barcodes &amp; Bookbags: Microsoft Teams Up With Schools To Create Covid \u2018Daily Pass\u2019 For Kids","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}