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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you.  You still have to come on here and complain.  So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else.  It’s really sad.   [/quote]

I actually think the schools-open-at-any-cost folks are the selfish ones. Totally ignoring that large swaths of our city are still unvaccinated, that immunocompromised folks exist, that hospital workers are at their breaking point and that schools have proven to be a major source of infection in our city. But we can’t possibly close school for three days!!! [/quote]

Let me clarify:  that's who I meant, too.

The schools-open-at-any-cost act like there's a grand conspiracy to close the schools as quickly, extensively, and for as long as possible.  Any little hint of a school closing anywhere and they go apesh*t. [/quote]

Read the post at 10:01 (not mine) to understand why.

Also, some people just believe that protecting the quality of life and futures of kids in general (not just their own) is more important than prolonging the lives of the elderly. It's a philosophical difference of priorities. That combined with the fact that the data doesn't show that school closures actually have a meaningful impact on saving lives.[/quote]

Read the 09:30 and 09:40 posts to understand more about quality of life. It doesn’t have to be as black and white as living vs dying [/quote]

You missed my point. I wasn't talking about this week. I was talking about long-term closures. Some people still seem to think those were/are justified in order to "save lives", even if there is no evidence that they did at any meaningful scale, and no matter how high the costs were to millions of kids.[/quote]

And let me add that yes, the quality of life of teachers is important too, which is what I assume you mean by "understanding more about quality of life". But we are talking quality of life during formative years impacted by long-term school closures vs. the short term hardship of a tough week at school and a holiday break possibly impacted by a mild breakthrough infection. While the latter is important, too, and I wouldn't have minded much if schools had closed this week and this week only (but I don't need childcare so it's easy to say), it is a much smaller matter than the impact the many months of closed schools have had on this generation of children.[/quote]

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