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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30% of epidemiologists surveyed say that they would not personally send kids back to school until this winter, at the earliest (with half of those saying this date would be a year or more out).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/upshot/epidemiologists-decisions-children-school-coronavirus.html

We think that if schools reopen, they are likely to do so in conditions that are either intolerable from a public health standpoint or that are so diminished/constrained that they're bad for kids' mental health (and probably adults').

We're considering what to do about this information. If you are also considering this, come on in to chat. [/quote]

Note that they had a 8-9% response rate and 300+ epidemiologists signed a letter stating they had concerns over the way the survey was phrased in chronological categories. The truth is that epidemiologists don’t think in terms of months but in terms of empirical conditions. There is too much uncertainty to predict even what will happen next month. If everyone flouted the rules we could be looking at another shutdown, for example, in a matter of weeks or months. We did not manage to get close to eradication and are on the cusp of more outbreaks in many places.[/quote]

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