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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why everyone thinks this is so simple. “Ugh, why is this so hard!” “Duh, they just have to go back to school!”

I am a parent and a teacher and I am here to tell you that this is complicated. It’s not simple. Putting 500-3000 wiggly, non-rule following humans in a tight space every day in the middle of a pandemic is a challenge. Even if they tend to be asymptomatic. Even if you have to go to work. If we are going to have a real conversation about what needs to happen to open, people on both sides need to agree on the basics. [/quote]

PP, I agree with you that it's not simple.

But I think that MCPS needs to start with the premise "kids will go to school in the fall" and then figure out how to accomplish that. [/quote]

Given the physical buildings and buses we have available in the county, if we declare that all kids will go to school in person in the fall, then social distancing is essentially over. If our state and county health officials determine social distancing can be over, then cool. But there is truly no point to setting limits on the number of people who can be in groups, in restaurants, in gyms, etc. if you are going to open schools normally. [/quote]

OK, if you can't accomplish kids going to school in the fall without ending social distancing in schools, then we end social distancing in schools. The benefits of kids in school outweigh the costs.[/quote]

I agree. Social distancing is the ideal. It’s not realistic or desirable for every situation.[/quote]
There is literally zero chance that schools are going to open up without precautions in place. Not sure why that's what you want-one would think that you would have a modicum of concern for your family's health and for your community. 
I don't know how we've even gotten to the point where people are so ignorant that they think schools should just open as normal and give up controlling the spread of the virus. Over 100,000 people die and you just shrug and say, "But it wasn't me, so I don't care." You seem incredibly selfish.[/quote]

DP, but have you actually looked at the data on the impact of school opening as a contributor to increased deaths?  It's pretty small.  Most of us are saying that we need to consider the trade-offs of the decisions we make.  Preventing the spread of COVID19 is not the only problem our society has, and we can't pretend that it is.[/quote]
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Schools aren’t causing spread. Some of you are so entrenched in your own paranoia that you’re ignoring the data.[/quote]

This is what I feel like people keep ignoring. They have been shown to it be a source of spreading. I don't understand why these teachers and others can't understand or don't want to understand that?  Nursing homes and prisons have been the largest source in infection. That's where all this energy about figuring out how to deal with it needs to go.

And yes I do think it's more important to have the kids go back to school then to delay and already sick elderly person's death by 6 months to a year. In the long run it may effect particular kids for literally the rest of their long lives.[/quote]

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