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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education is NOT being provided. End of story. [/quote]

Unless you are at a private, that just simply isn’t true. It might not be the form of education you want or how much you want, but it is being offered. Even after schools physically reopen, it still won’t look like pre-pandemic school. [/quote]

Education implies both a teacher teaching and a child actually learning. Simply offering up something digitally is not in any sense the meaning of "education". We could close all public schools and just keep library opens and that would be an "education" under your definition.[/quote]

Does health care imply both a doctor giving treatment and the patient recovering? If so, there’s a lot of doctors not doing their job right now![/quote]

If doctors suddenly decided to radically change their job description, such as doing telemedicine only, and the recovery rates of their patients plummeted as a result, or only stayed the same because a family member of the patient took over the in-person part of the job, then yes, the doctor would not be doing their job.

That's how this analogy works.[/quote]

Except that's not how it works at all, because many, many PCPs and other non emergency med doctors or surgeons DO continue to be doctors during a pandemic via telehealth, see patients and do all of this to the satisfaction of their employers.  You know, just like teachers.

As for "recovery rates" -- meh.  That's just the stuff of newspaper editorials and Own Er Up message boards.  Irrelevant.[/quote]

I doubt there are a lot, if any, doctors at this point who work exclusively virtually. My husband just saw his PCP in person, for an important but non-emergency reason, and I have a routine dentist appointment next week (where I will even have to take off my mask  :shock: - I'm assuming the dentist will wear his). No pre-appointment Covid test required. [/quote]

I just took my 10 year old in for his yearly wellness check with his pediatrician. Isn't everyone keeping up with these for their kids?[/quote]

We're doing our normal wellness exams and our pediatrician has sent emails out encouraging parents to stick to their schedule and outlining their Covid policies (masking, hand washing statements, new scheduling system so that there is never more than two patients in waiting room, etc.). The one difference we made is that we scheduled one visit later than we normally would so that we could do the flu shot at the same time rather than make a separate appointment.

Our pediatrician said she doesn't consider her job particularly high risk because the office is very careful about masking (they all wear face shields as well) and she doesn't work with any populations that have proven to be the biggest spreaders of Covid (i.e. young adults who are eating out and socializing and traveling and also very likely to be asymptomatic). Even kids who are going to daycare every day are being more careful than college kids and 20 somethings.[/quote]

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