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+1. The continued school closures, and probably even the initial closures, are not based on science. WaPo has an article by an epidemiologist today that says as much:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/case-reopening-schools-this-fall/

All the people claiming these decisions are based on science really don't know what they are talking about. We are in a state of mass hysteria, [b]as is evident from all the parents fearful for the safety of their kids if schools reopen, when Covid is significantly less dangerous for kids than the flu.[/b] I really hope those people are a minority and the pressure on public officials is going to mount to actually look at the evidence when making decisions about schools, and not basing them on everybody's gut feeling that kids spread germs and it's therefore too dangerous to operate schools.[/quote]

Kids aren't the only ones at school.

Also, I"m old enough to remember DCUM's position in March, which was CLOSE THE SCHOOLS NOW BECAUSE SCIENCE!

To take the position now that closing the schools was a hysterical overreaction...[/quote]

I know kids aren't the only ones at school. Reread my post - my point was clearly that I find it absurd if parents fear [i]for the safety of their children[/i], given how its severity in kids compares to the flu. That there are others at schools and in contact with kids who are at higher risk is obvious, and clearly the decision to keep schools closed would be for their benefit only, at the expense of the kids. But as the article in the Post lays out, there is no evidence so far that kids actually infect adults. Not only that, but in Sweden, where the schools never closed, they have less infections among children than in other European countries that did shut down the schools. Kids just don't appear to be very contagious with this virus.

Also, I am not "DCUM" (and I wasn't even reading it in March - I only came back now to see what people were saying about the potential school closures beyond the summer). I thought then that closing the schools was probably an overreaction not supported by actual scientific evidence, but a decision made out of an abundance of caution, so don't try to accuse me of hypocrisy.[/quote]

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