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You are reading much more into what I am saying than what I said.

I said we prioritize children's lives over adults (lives). Meaning, if something kills 100 adults (going to work at a grocery store) our reaction is very different than if that thing (or in this case something similar) kills 100 kids (going to school). [b]If there are even 10 dead kids in this country because they went to school, parents are going to be too scared to send their kids to school.[/b] This is largely because we view kids as being helpless and we view adults of having a choice to work or not work (even though that is often not true). [/quote]

"In the United States, 675 children 12 years old and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, and nearly 116,000 were injured in 2017"

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/child_passenger_safety/cps-factsheet.html[/quote]

You are proving my point. This is why seatbelt and car seat laws are more stringent for kids than they are for adults. Also, comparing automobile accidents to this virus is a false equivalent. [/quote]

So parents are fine putting their kids in cars, even though that kills hundreds and hundreds of kids in the US every year, but would not be fine sending their kids to school if there were 10 school-related kid deaths in the US from covid, because...?[/quote]

Please try to understand this: the kids aren't living on an island, taught by and sheltering with only other kids. They are part of larger society, as are the schools, and the larger society includes vulnerable aduts who can get very sick and die from COVID -- COVID that is spread to them by kids. (Kids can get very sick and die, too, for that matter.)

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that 36,560 people died in traffice accidents in 2018, including 1,038 kids. You know how many people have died from COVID in just the last six months? It's 133,000 and counting --  more than three times the number of people who died in traffic accidents over the whole year in 2018. And auto accidents are not contagious.

You limit or pause f2f instruction not just so fewer kids will die, but so that fewer people overall will die. [/quote]

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