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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Studies in Sweden and Norway showed us by the end of 2020 and before vaccines that it was safe to open schools with some basic precautions. But many school districts in blue states kept out school closed until late 2022 despite the plethora of empiric evidence saying it wasn’t necessary as well as growing evidence of harm from the school closures.

None of these people have been held accountable for this malfeasance. [/quote]

European studies conducted in European cities don't transfer to our environment. European schools are much, much smaller than American ones and their classrooms have windows that can be opened for ventilation, unlike the giant windowless prison bunkers our children attend.[/quote]

Uh what? There are 450 million people in the EU and children go to schools of all sizes, in urban areas and in rural areas.  Virtually all of them opened after the initial ~6-8 week closures and yet had much lower levels of COVID spread than we did in the US in 2020. Time to admit extended school closures were an enormous mistake. [/quote]

The schools are much smaller and there are many more of them. The classrooms have windows and can be easily ventilated. Not like our cattle cars.[/quote]

My son's private also did not close.  They all wore masks, and everyone got vaccinated when possible.  They spent a lot of their day outside, in giant tents, and reduced enrollment numbers for two years in order to keep classes as small as possible (classrooms were already much larger than in public school).  There was never an outbreak.  Even when kids got COVID (which was tracked and reported), it didn't spread to anyone else within the school.  They had free optional daily covid testing, too.  No public school could do any of that, of course.  They haven't got the funds or the organization, and wouldn't be able to get the compliance.  But European schools are much more like our privates than our publics.[/quote]

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