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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's possible to simultaneously believe that distance learning is problematic and ALSO believe that it's premature to open schools.

I do. I think distance learning is awful, and it's particularly awful for kids with more acute needs. I also think that opening schools would be far worse, because it would kill teachers.

[b]Our current 7-day average of cases is higher than it was when we closed in March[/b] -- and there is a marked lack of trust among teachers that the city will actually provide what's needed to open safely. [/quote]

This statement might be technically true -- barely, and it probably will stop being true as trends continue downward over the next couple of weeks -- but it's absurdly misleading. We're doing vastly more testing now than in March when schools closed, so of course there will be more cases found.

Confirmed cases per day per 100K residents: trending downward, about equivalent to where we were on April 1 despite huge increase in testing

Percent of tests positive: Slowly trending downward, hovering around 2 percent now, the lowest that number ever has been

Hospitalizations: the lowest they've ever been

This guy has collected the info into handy graphs and updates them every day on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/wmaxson/status/1303339272762789888[/quote]

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