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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting read on school closures....

Long thread worth reading....

[twitter]https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1478352108533526531[/twitter][/quote]

Only right wing crazies argued that school closure was bad for kids and that reopening them wouldn’t cause mass death.

Only right wing nutters agreed with Orange Man when he said that solutions couldn’t be worse than the problem. Kids in areas where school closures were briefest fared best.

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From the linked NYT article:

"Data now suggest that many changes to school routines are of questionable value in controlling the virus’s spread. Some researchers are skeptical that school closures reduce Covid cases in most instances. Other interventions, like forcing students to sit apart from their friends at lunch, may also have little benefit.

One reason: Severe versions of Covid, including long Covid, are extremely rare in children. For them, the virus resembles a typical flu. Children face more risk from car rides than Covid."

Remember when people here were insisting schools needed to be closed for "safety," despite ample evidence from Europe that doing so achieved nothing?

Things played out exactly as predicted, but school boards want to pretend we didn't know better at the time.

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