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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey midwest poster. Does your school system have 100-200K kids in it? How much are you really minimizing how covid affected your community? My guess is it was invisible to you but it was very visible to healthcare workers and the sick.

I had a group of friends for my kid and me and was super social as was safe during my the last year. My kid got on Discord nightly with his friends and daily, he tutored and mentored at risk kids from his school.

A lot of how people handled covid, esp in this thread was either compete isolation or compete denial something was happening.

There were always choices and people made some bad ones. But in real life, not the loud annoying voices online, most people weren't reckless or completely isolated.

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Midwest poster— We have about 80k in public.  My kids go to private, but it is 10k a year, not 50k.  I am not minimizing anything.  I know you want to think that I am a COVID denier or something, but that is not at all accurate.  That is how it has been here.

One of my best friends is an ER doc at one of our 3 hospitals.  She says they were never overwhelmed.  The hardest part was figuring stuff out as we figured out how COVID transmitted, what the procedures should be, etc. early.  Of course she has stressful shifts, but not because of COVID numbers. Our hospitals are still fine, well below capacity.

As for the sick, they have my sympathy but they would need to isolate no matter what as COVID is not the only threat out there.  Having had cancer in the family pre-COVID, it is just good practice.  Shutting down schools made no sense, offering an at-home option for those with a sick family member did.  And isolating if you are vulnerable makes sense irrespective of COVID.

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