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They need to close already. It is OBVIOUS that a few more weeks of this will kill off more people in hospitals, not just the adult unvaccinated we love to hate, but the elderly (there's a thread today by someone who just her mother to Covid), the fragile, even young children. And it's not just Covid patients: all of you who are injured in accidents or who have acute health problems that need hospital care will have such lousy case that hospitals requested and received lawsuit protection from Hogan. Chemo patients whose lives depend on timely treatment are not receiving care right now. Important surgeries have been canceled.

Do you want to extend this suffering and death even more by refusing to close schools? When we KNOW that Omicron arrives and recedes rapidly and we would only need to close schools for a few weeks?

It's unconscionable.

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What are you talking about? There is no evidence that closing the schools alone--without other broader closures--would have any impact on general community spread [i]at all[/i].  In fact, in all the studies of which I am aware, the efficacy of school closures, even in conjunction with other closures/restrictions, is contested. So why is it "unconscionable" to oppose measures that do nothing to combat "suffering and death."[/quote]

+1. It is spreading everywhere, closing schools won't stop it.

If we close everything, it will return when we reopen things, and anyone who didn't catch it in their non-school activities will catch it then.  Unless we get to "zero COVID".  We can't get to zero COVID.  Even China is struggling, with draconian lockdowns.   We could "flatten the curve", yes, but schools can't do that alone.  it would have to be a bigger lockdown circa March 2020.  It is not happening.[/quote]

I agree with this. That said, the way this sh$tshow went down could have been managed better. Just looking to other states, countries even should have provided some insights as to where we were headed. Yet, I don't feel like anything was planned for. At least it feels that way.[/quote]

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