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I support that bill. Finally, some common sense to release pressure off our hospitals - where you could end up TODAY, by slipping on the ice. Surely you want adequate care for your broken hip? Lots of people get heart attacks when shoveling out - surely you don't want them to die because the EMS services are slow getting them into hospital? There were waits of several hours last week from pick-up to hospital bed.
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Okay, then let's close all restaurants, bars, gyms, and other non-essential businesses, rather than SCHOOLS.  [/quote]

YES. The fact that we're having this conversation is stone-cold stupid when schools should have been the last thing to close. It makes absolutely no sense that I can go to Orange Theory in person, sit at a bar, and stand among the sweaty masses at Starbucks but my kid can't go to school. Obviously we should be looking for as many workable solutions as possible, but having the most correct decision off the table entirely is peak idiocy. [/quote]

I'm the first poster you quoted. I agree, but if elected officials aren't doing their job with closures, then something else needs to give to keep hospitals functioning. The priority is not kids in school, even though it would be so great if it was. The priority at this point is getting standards of care in hospitals to some degree of decent. I fully concur that this is unfair on the kids and parents. But we need healthcare more than anything else. And if you want to go scream at the Mayor, Governors and others for not shutting down bars and restaurants and other businesses when the time was right, then be my guest - they entirely deserve it! They're all think they can weasel out of difficult choices and no one will see through their little plans. Infuriating.[/quote]

NP. The fundamental problem with your argument is that there is no data to suggest that closing schools helps the hospital situation in any way. NONE. School closures have never shown to make a positive difference in hospital admission numbers.

The second problem is that next to hospitals and grocery stores, nothing in our society is more essential than schools. So we shouldn't even be talking about closing schools at all. We can talk about closing other things, but not the venues where the people who are least at risk from Covid and most vulnerable in so many other ways get their education, which will affect their future and long-term life expectancy. It is pure lunacy and unethical. [/quote]

I'm 12:37 and this is what I was driving at. Schools never should have been on the table for as long as they were. The plans should have been focused around keeping hospitals, grocery stores, and schools open and accessible. It seems like nobody ever sat down and asked "what really matters to a functioning society?"   [/quote]

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