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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will send my kids when the school opens to the extent that is permitted.  My kids miss school.

It's interesting to me that you all think schools will close again if teachers start spreading it.

I doubt they will close schools again quickly.

At that point, offices will be opening, so teachers will not be the only workers seeing co-workers again.  Offices will put people in far closer proximity than schools (most DC workers are in cubes) so I think by the fall we know more about where we are at.[/quote]

I agree that they would not shut all schools down again if there is an outbreak. They would shut down individual schools for a limited amount of time, which is the sensible thing to do. Schools being open would be the status quo, and that is a powerful force. Our problem right now is that schools being closed is the status quo, and they are afraid of opening them again and see what happens. Teachers are scared to go back to work, (some) parents are scared to send their kids, because everyone has been put under the impression that closing schools was necessary to keep everyone safe, mounting evidence that kids are not significant vectors of Covid notwithstanding. They rung a giant bell in March that they now can't unring. Michael Osterholm warned of this outcome back then when he wrote an article skeptical of a national lockdown.[/quote]

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