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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what’s done is done and being mad won’t help anything. Everyone - schools, teachers, and parents - all need to be working to get the behind kids caught up and/or have them repeat a grade if necessary. The situation will not right itself on its own. [/quote]

The #1 thing that needs to be done is to grit our teeth and say no to ICU admissions of 75+ year olds with 2.6 preexisting medical conditions instead of shutting down schools again. And it will come down to that, look at cases in highly vaccinated UK and Israel. We did not vaccinate our way out of the pandemic. We cannot let a couple floors in the hospital shut down society again. And it is not just education, it is also mental health, obesity and people's livelihoods on the line. [/quote]

I was saying this in April 2020.  This is the only answer.

- signed, an actual expert in rationing healthcare.[/quote]

While I agree with all of the above I don't see how they corrects the educational problem we already have. Rationing care is not going to teach a first grader her letter sounds. [/quote]

We need to immediately begin withholding care from the 75+ with 2.6 pre-existing medical conditions going forward, because it appears the moment there is a concern anywhere in the country about ICU beds being scarce, schools are at risk of shutting down.

We also need to remove all mask mandates in schools for both students and teachers because that is deleterious to a child's development, particularly younger children.

Basically, we need to stop caring if any adults die from this, forcibly vaccinate all eligible 12+ individuals and if children without serious pre-existing health conditions start actually dying then we can reconsider.  Harsh but true if we ever want to see an end to this.[/quote]

Is this a troll?[/quote]

No, just a public health expert who is a mother and also whose family all have been on the front lines in ORs this entire effing pandemic. This is is a coronavirus.  It will become endemic.  We need to let that happen, and masking in schools is affecting child development (and frankly is inefficient because young kids are touching their faces constantly, getting masks wet, etc.).  Unless you're willing to prohibit all travel whatsoever (interstate as well as international) for several months after there are no more cases, there's literally no other answer.

I agree with Zeke's argument generally - https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/21/238642/a-doctor-and-medical-ethicist-argues-life-after-75-is-not-worth-living/.  We've forsaken kids long enough.

All of that being said, I have been following all prescribed precautions thus far because I live in society.  Now, it's time to change the rules and get back to life.[/quote]

Also I said forcibly vaccinate for a bit of shock value - what I mean by that is mandate vaccination as a condition of using any public service (i.e., roads).  If you literally want to sit on your property and never set foot outside of it, then you do you.[/quote]

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