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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, look, Germany is keeping its schools and daycares closed until mid-February along with a whole host of other measures: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-extends-covid-lockdown-until-february-14/a-56277168

Dutch schools have been closed since mid-December: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-dutch-parliament-coronavirus-curfew.html

Those countries did a lot right in the part of the pandemic (their death tolls reflect that!) but .... we are in a new phase of it with even more contagious strains floating around and their leaders have bowed to reality.

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We have many, many friends in Europe (UK, Netherlands, France, Austria, Slovakia, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, etc) and when you talk about school closures and somehow think that supports your narrative, you simultaneously forget that most European cities do not require children to wear mask who are under ~10-11, varies by area, most places do not require masks outdoors- some big cities are changing this but for example, London has yet to, and school was always and continues to be prioritized. European schools were back in the spring when the DMV schools called it quits for the year. They were back all fall, even when infection rates were high. Sure, some schools are closing for a very short amount of time but as a whole Europeans have a much more rationale approach and have looked at mitigation efforts that actually make sense. Having a two year old masked is neither developmentally appropriate nor does anything to control the spread, neither does passing by someone outdoors without a mask- but go ahead and continue to make yourself feel better without actually doing anything that matters. So if you want to pull data to support your narrative- please do so in totality and not cherry-pick.[/quote]

Are you advocating that we return to school buildings without masks like Europe?  Do you want Bowser to get rid of the mask mandate?  That is sure what this sounds like. [/quote]

DP. It only sounds like that to you because of your preconceived notions about people who think schools to open.

To me, it sounds like that the PP is saying that if there was spread in European schools, it's because they didn't implement the strict hygiene measures that DCPS would be requiring, not even something as simple as masks. So they didn't do everything right about Covid, as the PPP argued, and school closures are not an inevitable consequence.[/quote]

My point was neither. My point was that people want to cherry pick and say we should do what others are doing without looking at the totality of what they are doing and only picking what they want to pull from other places mitigation efforts that support their narrative. You can't simultaneously say "look, Europe is closing schools, we should too", without also advocating for a reasonable age requirement for children to wear masks or a reasonable response to masks outside. While not perfect, Europe has looked at the data and where the spread is and adopted mitigation efforts that provide the most bang for the buck, or euro or quid as the case may be. So those advocating for doing what Europe is doing, should advocate in totality not just whatever they feel like to fit what their current desires are related to schools. [/quote]

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