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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds pretty low-risk.[/quote]

Are you kidding me? That’s a shit-ton.
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On what planet is 0.08% a shit ton of anything? [/quote]

[b]On a planet where the R-number exceeds 1.[/b] Put that many positive kids in a school building and it will. Quickly.[/quote]

+1  Five months in and people still don't understand exponential spread.  This whole situation has convinced me that we are truly the stupidest country on Earth.  All those cuts to education coming home to roost.[/quote]

Yes.  It's so depressing.  And then you always get the predictable "but no it won't, because masks!"  Masks are not the cure.  They help -- somewhat.  Prolonged indoor exposure, masked or unmasked, is still u significant risk for transmission.  But they don't care.[/quote]

And yet other countries do it. [/quote]

Is there another country with community spread levels as high as the US that has successfully opened schools?[/quote]

The problem isn't the way our schools are reacting, it's the way the rest of our society is reacting. The problem is also that we're asking the schools to deal with the virus without asking the rest of society to do what is necessary to get it under control. [/quote]

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