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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying that no one has died due to keeping the schools open in the face of high covid numbers is incorrect according to the Texas study which showed that an additional 20,000 people caught covid as a result of keeping schools open which resulted in 800 additional deaths.  Saying that no one died is ignoring all of those people, and ignoring the mothers and fathers of Arlington children who did catch covid and die and surely would have done so in larger numbers had the schools stayed open.  The fact that you are not effected in North Arlington when you work from home and get your groceries delivered or are able to take many covid precautions that makes the disease safer for you does not mean that the disease has not been killing less fortunate people in this county who have not been able to take the same precautions and/or need to continue to work lower paid jobs where exposure is a daily issue and thus chances of exposure increase.

It's nice for you that you don't know anyone who has died from the disease here, but you are lucky.  But your luck does not negate the experiences of other less fortunate people in this county with less fortune than you, even if you appear to be unaware of them.[/quote]

People in Texas didn’t die because of COVID spread in schools. They died because adults did stupid things once their kids were in school. It’s absolutely insane to me that anyone thinks taking away education from children was the answer. We hurt the young to keep (by and large) older people alive instead of expecting adults to bear the brunt of closures to keep other adults alive. If a bunch of grownups in Texas couldn’t stop themselves from engaging in high risk activities then that is on them. It’s not an excuse to dismantle public education as we know it and make young children sit on iPads all day.

And JFC are you really comparing Arlington to TEXAS?! People there were protesting wearing masks even during the height of the pandemic whereas our cautious community is continuing to mask for the most part even once vaccinated.

We put the brunt of this pandemic response on children and young families and APS just let it happen.[/quote]

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