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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks who are angry now must have forgotten what it was like the first year of the pandemic. No one knew what the virus was capable of - what it would do to adults and kids alike. Hospitals were overwhelmed. Our leadership makes decisions based on the information available. It is unfortunate kids were out of school for so long, however, it’s now up to us to come together and help our kids and not expend unnecessary energy on the blame game. If it was your son/daughter who died because schools were open, you’d sing a different tune. [/quote]

I work with children in a culture and a place where they are taken care of by multigenerational households, often primarily grandparents. A lot of those grandparents died. Sometimes it was because of transmission through the children. I saw a lot of teddy bears perched on top of the body bags coming out of the hospital -- the kids wanted the send what they loved to be a comfort to who they had loved.

Do you want to know what their mental health is like now?

Our community was hit harder than most. Nobody knew that it would shake out that way in the beginning.[/quote]

So kids learning remotely gave COVID to their grandparents? Huh. [/quote]

You are ignorant of the situation. That's me using polite language out of respect for the moderator.

Most did not have internet access. The problem was that kids went back and forth from parents (when home) to grandparents. And parents brought it home from their shitty jobs that they couldn't afford to lose, and then the kids took it to their grandparents, who were the only ones who could watch them.

Most of the country was not like this. But it was real, and it takes a helluva toll on children to know people are dead because of them. And guess who reports on abuse here? It's the grandparents, the aunties, the elders.

You don't want to see what it looks like when children have gone through this and have to live with it.[/quote]

No, I understand the situation perfectly well. [b]Closed schools ensured that those families most at risk, with in-person jobs and multigenerational households, mixed households as much as possible as without testing or masks.[/b] That's not an argument why schools should have been closed, but an argument why using the suffering of at-risk communities to support school closures is BS. We should have focused efforts on protecting families at greatest risk with more testing, free N95s for when a family member had symptoms and continued in-person school that did not require so much mixing of households in crowded, indoor, poorly ventilated spaces. 
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And no, you are wrong again. Closed schools minimized vectors for these kids. They would have had to stay with both parents and grandparents anyway -- schools just would have added in more contacts.

Again, this wasn't a common situation. But it is and was a real one, and before you make grand sweeping statements, think about your preconceptions. Think about who counts for you, and who doesn't.

And stop beng so wrong all the time.[/quote]

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