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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for people who don't want to close schools early:

Do you agree that at some point schools will have to close?  I mean, you are able to look at the news and see what is happening in hot spots.  You see that in an outbreak, hospitals are overwhelmed, cities are shutting down, things are closing to control spread, towns and cities are getting cordoned off, and schools are closing.

Is it your thinking that that just isn't going to happen at all where you live?   You think all of Japan shut schools; Italy shut schools... but we here in the US will be different?

If so, what is it about the US or your state that you think the virus won't affect us the same way?

How is your state or county handling things that make you believe that things just won't be like that here?[/quote]

How about instead of schools and childcare centers shutting down (wreaking financial havoc on working parents/disrupting kids’ education due to a virus children are unlikely to get extremely sick from), we ask older people to take one for the team and quarantine themselves. People will still get sick, but this way it won’t cause our hospitals to overflow with the more severely sick older people. This seems like a better way to keep society going. If you are an older person who is still working, then we will provide some sort of financial stipend to help you miss work.

But I am not interested in losing a month+ pay because of a virus that is basically going to be a flu for me and my kids if we catch it. Not to mention hourly workers are going to be particular screwed. The young shouldn’t be taking a huge hit for the sake of the old without government assurance of no income interruption. Lord knows Medicaid will be covering a lot of the elderly’s hospital bills, so how about younger people get some assistance too.[/quote]

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