So realistically, when do you think somewhat normal full time f2f education will resume?

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. You'll also be heaping COVID deaths upon flu deaths. Your argument seems to be that plenty of people die from the flu, why not COVID, too?

No, the argument is that parents send their kids to school even though kids get the flu at school and die.

Now, maybe parents are ok with the risk of their kids dying from school-acquired flu but are not ok with the risk of their kids dying from school-acquired covid. I don't know, and you don't either. But it does suggest that when it comes to sending kids to school, most parents have a potentially-fatal infectious-disease risk tolerance that's higher than zero.

You've answered your own question here. The other thing to realize is that this is not just about what parents want, or are willing to risk. The decision about f2f instruction has to take into account the effects of the decision upon the larger society in which the schools operate.

PP: Parents won't send their kids to school because the kids might die of covid!
Other PP: Really? Flu kills more kids than covid, yet parents send their kids to school.
You: Flu is not covid! Also, what about the adults?

As for the effect on the larger society in which schools operate - what is the effect on the larger society of closed schools?

The effect is more people will be alive than if we had opened the schools.

Reading DCUM, you'd think that the only thing schools do is provide an opportunity for people to get infected with covid.

+100. These people are acting like opening schools assures them a most certain death. The over-reaction is actually comical.

Would you think it was comical if your child came down with COVID and multisystem inflammatory syndrome? What about if you have a teacher spouse and they were hospitalized and intubated? Is that funny to you? I hope that everyone who thinks that valid concerns about COVID are funny is personally impacted by the virus.

I never said that Covid in general was funny. Obviously it's not. But the reaction of people who want to continue to keep schools closed based on irrational fear is too much. They literally act like the mere action of walking into a school is going to make them sick.

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As soon as there's a vaccine. I mean seriously MCPS can barely teach school and doing that while trying to enforce social distancing is completely unrealistic.

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Anonymous wrote:As soon as there's a vaccine. I mean seriously MCPS can barely teach school and doing that while trying to enforce social distancing is completely unrealistic.

True but the irrational belief that this is a hoax is hard to shake for some despite all the evidence to the contrary.

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Anonymous wrote:As soon as there's a vaccine. I mean seriously MCPS can barely teach school and doing that while trying to enforce social distancing is completely unrealistic.

But keeping schools closed indefinitely to wait for a vaccine, that's realistic?

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Anonymous wrote:As soon as there's a vaccine. I mean seriously MCPS can barely teach school and doing that while trying to enforce social distancing is completely unrealistic.

But keeping schools closed indefinitely to wait for a vaccine, that's realistic?

Yes. We should have a better idea a year from now if we're likely to have a viable, effective vaccine (we may even have one by then). Distance learning -- or hybrid schedule with option for DL -- for this school year.

If the vaccine picture looks bleak at this time next year, then you can start herding everyone back into school for the slaughter, since hope for a vaccine will have faded.

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Anonymous wrote:As soon as there's a vaccine. I mean seriously MCPS can barely teach school and doing that while trying to enforce social distancing is completely unrealistic.

But keeping schools closed indefinitely to wait for a vaccine, that's realistic?

Yes. We should have a better idea a year from now if we're likely to have a viable, effective vaccine (we may even have one by then). Distance learning -- or hybrid schedule with option for DL -- for this school year.

If the vaccine picture looks bleak at this time next year, then you can start herding everyone back into school for the slaughter, since hope for a vaccine will have faded.

What slaughter? Or are you still believing that Covid = death for most people.