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OK go ahead and name a few. You can close restaurants, stores and bars. You can close movie theaters and professional sports. You can have people work from home where possible. This will reduce overall community spread but [b]it will merely slow down, not end, spread in schools[/b]. Schools will become the primary vector for family infection and community spread. 
If you want to limit spread in schools, the most effective way to do that is cut off modes of transmission by having all kids wear masks, ensuring adequate social distancing (which, given the crowded state of most public schools, means only a fraction of students can be in the building at any given time), and routinely test students and contact trace and require contacts to self isolate for 14 days when positive cases are found.

I suspect this would actually be more disruptive to families' lives then full time distance learning, but it would get kids back in school buildings for at least part of the time. [/quote]

The goal was to slow down the spread, not end it - right? That's what the whole "flatten the curve" thing was - right? [b]And we have contact tracing and testing to actually eliminate the spread - right?[/b][/quote]

Testing is getting better, but contact tracing is almost non-existent. We needed a national army of contact tracers and the federal government did nothing about it. In the states that have tried to get it off the ground, it's slow going. You can't create functional public health apparatus out of nothing, and public health was underfunded for way too long before this.

And of course, you have whole states that never really did what they needed to do even to flatten the curve--witness what is happening now in Texas and Florida. We have open borders with those places. [/quote]

THIS.  I can't believe anyone is typing with a straight face that they put their faith in the abject, laughable joke that is the state of contract tracing in the U.S. today.  They're either woefully misinformed or they just don't give a damn, because JUST PUT MY KIDS BACK IN SCHOOL AND GET THEM OUT OF MY HOUSE.[/quote]

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