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Really?  I have a graduate degree in Public Health, so I am used to thinking in terms of populations.  Of course, it is bad to die or have long term health consequences from COVID.  It is also bad if even more people die from or have long term consequences from heart disease because they gained weight.  That's how it works.[/quote]

Are you the "gained weight" PP? Can you please explain how this is relevant to school next fall?[/quote]

Obviously, she is making the point that there are numerous negative public health consequences of lockdowns. It is relevant to keeping schools closed because that will force more people to remain at home to supervise their kids. If you used to ride your bike to work, for instance, you are not doing that anymore. If you are already stretched between facilitating DL and getting your work done, it may be hard to fit in workouts. Not to mention kids are missing out on sports.[/quote]

DP, and I think the weight gain isn’t the best comparative outcome here.  More: why is it preferable for children to be beaten to death by their parents, or to experience life-long consequences of trauma (and good luck fixing those), than it is for teachers to take a small risk of serious outcomes and even smaller risk of death from COVID-19?  Those are more the outcomes we’re talking about.  Yes, I picked the extreme examples, but [b]claiming that we’re sentencing teachers to die by asking them to teach in-person this Fall is also extreme.[/b][/quote]

Yes, it is ridiculous hyperbole, and evidence of the mass hysteria we are facing when trying to have this discussion. Don't get me started on parents worrying about their kids safety at school because of Covid...[/quote]
Right. Ridiculous hyperbole for teachers to be worried about dying from an infectious disease that has killed 110,000 Americans in the past three months but totally reasonable for people to be screaming about “life long trauma” and children being “beaten to death”. Give me a break. If you beat your child to death it is no one else’s fault. Now you’re likening school closure to murder. If you kill your children or allow yourself to become obese during quarantine those are personal failings. It isn’t the government, the school system, or anyone else’s fault. People need to learn some personal responsibility. [/quote]
Obviously/hopefully PP is not beating his children. She is referring to public statistics.  [/quote]

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