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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in the fall 2021 camp. And I am not a pessimistic person by nature. [b]But I honestly don’t see anyone prioritizing the needs of children in this environment. The teachers interests will remain paramount within school systems, and the economic interests of returning kids to school are indirect for other govern,ent leaders.[/b] Until we have a vaccine that has made it into wide circulation, my expectation is that school won’t be normal. [/quote]

Sadly I think this is true. We live in a gerontocracy.[/quote]

What was prioritized are health care workers and hospitals. The shutdowns were about flattening the curve of cases, so hospitals wouldn’t be overwhelmed. In the appropriate rush to equip them with PPE, few thought about nursing homes, contributing to the mortality for people who love and work there.

We still don’t know much about this virus. It is novel. But the shutdowns did prevent infections. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-prevented-60-million-coronavirus-infections-us-study-finds/[/quote]

Yes, that was the rationale for the initial shutdown, and it was sensible (although it is unclear whether schools had to be part of it). I don't think the desire to keep schools closed beyond the summer is still driven by this objective, because hospitals are not currently on a trajectory to getting overwhelmed like they were only in NYC. It is driven by fear for the potential risk for the elderly (or otherwise at-risk staff) and elderly family members of the kids, and it is being pushed for despite mounting evidence that kids (who remain largely asymptomatic) are not significant spreaders.[/quote]

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