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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who post these scare-monger if threads with headlines that don’t make sense or are misleading (as many PPs have pointed out, we have many mitigation strategies in place, including mandatory vaccines for adults, masks for all, quarantines for outbreaks, social distancing), should have to explain what Plan B is.

Okay, say we close schools preemptively again because of reports like this, instead of trying mitigation and seeing that can enable us to keep schools open. Then what? How do we make sure working families have childcare? It’s not like last year when employers were understanding and more people were WFH. Now a lot of parents are back in offices and employers are explicitly requiring them to have childcare. Obviously some people can afford that but many of us can’t. Also, it’s unrealistic that everyone’s hiring a nanny or tutor, right? Which means kids will be going into group care, which is … just like school in terms of Covid risk! Plus we also still face the problems of disparate impact in learning loss, pulling lowers SES kids further and further behind. Plus the social implications for kids, which are real and get worse daily.

So fine, post these stupid context-less headlines and try to freak everyone out. But you have to explain what your alternative is then. “Close schools” is what we have been doing. Not sure if you noticed, but it has not worked. So what’s YOUR plan?[/quote]
[b]Denying the risks of mass infection of our children is what is actually stupid. Doctors are concerned that there aren’t enough PICU beds or enough staff for the coming surge when we open schools-cities like Dallas already have ZERO available. What is your solution to that? To shrug your shoulders because you need childcare? What’s YOUR solution to the death and long term disability of children? 
The reality is that there should be no group childcare, and no in person schooling, until Delta stops spreading rampantly among the unvaccinated.[/b] [/quote]

Well said and I entirely agree.  [/quote]

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