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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is the crux of this debate. If schools do not open full-time but parents are told they need to go to the office full time, they fear they will get fired.

First, I don’t think this will happen. If you run your own business I’m sure there is a lot to worry about, but if all the major school systems are doing distance learning then employers are not going to get away with simply firing all the parents.

Second, I think this is a fear that is based on relatively recent generational change. We are now living in a time when most people think it’s necessary for both parents to work in order to survive financially. Obviously this was not always the case. But given that we live in these times, we have come to assume schools are the social support that makes this possible. It turns out this was not a reliable assumption in these historic times. Unfortunately, the virus doesn’t care that you have to go to work to pay the bills.[/quote]

No parents will be expected to spend even more money to get a babysitter/nanny and return to work or lose their job.

As a woman and a mom I have already had to quit my job since March to stay at Home with my two younger elementary school kids. And of course camp was canceled so there is that. So I can't even begin to look for another job until school goes back to normal.

It sucks. And it's reality. But the school systems don't seem to care about the crappy education that is being provided through DL especially to young elementary kids. They certainly don't care about parents. I just don't know what the solution is but I have never been so stressed in my life.[/quote]
Literally everyone feels this way. That doesn’t make it less profound but it is the reality of a crisis of this magnitude. Even if schools opened up at full capacity, how long do you think it would be before students and staff began getting sick and they had to close down for weeks at a time? It would do nothing to solve your childcare problem. [/quote]

By the numbers in moco and the way we have been trending down for several weeks in a row there is no reason to believe things will then get worse.

People go on and and on about how ITS NOT THE FLU, stop comparing it to the flu blah blah blah. Yet are dead set that there will be a spike in fall winter JUST LIKE THE FLU. You can't have it both ways. Do I think it will go away completely? No. But I think the amount of new cases will be manageable and certainly no reason to cancel school again. [/quote]
They aren’t worried because it’s just like the flu. They’re worried because the flu is most prevalent in the winter and there are people hospitalized with it every year. This causes further strain on the healthcare system and it’s more likely that it will become overwhelmed. People spend more time indoors in the winter out of necessity and although we know COVID transmission is less likely outdoors and with good ventilation, these things are not possible in the winter months. It would also be problematic for people to get sick with both the flu and COVID for obvious reasons. It’s fine that you think it will be manageable and I hope you are right, but public health experts don’t seem to agree. [/quote]

You mean the same public health experts that have been wrong about what's going to happen with this virus literally the whole time? [/quote]

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