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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have really tried to listen and understand both sides.  I think the place I get hung up is with the multi-generational households.  We know that the majority of deaths are occurring in the elderly populations.  [b]So what do we do for families who live with elderly people and have young children in the home?[/b] It's just not as simple as saying that at-risk people should isolate.[/quote]

We provide a distance-learning option for them.[/quote]

That’s a good point.  Allow people to opt-in to distance learning.  We can’t do this forever.  I know it won’t be “forever” and we all hope a vaccine comes later this year or next Spring but those are just hopes.  At this point we don’t know when a vaccine arrives.  As unlikely as it is, it could take five years for one.  Do people want to keep this going for five years?  We can’t structure school and the economy around exceptions.  The exceptions need to have things done for them as much as possible (online school and grocery delivery for instance) and we need to take reasonable precautions to slow the spread (masks, stay 6 feet apart, don’t have people pack into small rooms) but we cannot function like this for an undetermined time.[/quote]

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