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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In the $1.9T proposal is $170B for schools to aid them in re-opening. What sense does that make after $54B was just allocated for that same purpose in the recently passed $900B bill?

Does anyone really think that money will have any impact on schools opening. By the time it gets out the school year will almost be over. The school re-opening plan are the vaccines. 
This is just spending money as a show of power because you can. $170 Billion is a lot of money.[/quote]

I disagree. While teachers may be vaccinated by fall, none of the students will be vaccinated and many of their family members will not be vaccinated either. Returning in the fall without PPE, test kits and HVAC improvements, and the ability for sick kids and teachers to move into distance learning for a few weeks may not result in the immediate mass deaths and hospitalizations of the elderly BUT if COVID circulates unchecked in school environments then more mutations..including ones that are more resistant to vaccines can emerge. Public school systems don't have or allocate enough money for pencils so thinking that they will be able to simply find the money for PPE, test kits and HVAC improvements is unrealistic. Funding these things would not only allow schools to open safely but would enable a return to many of the school community activities and normalcy while protecting public health.

While PPE and test kits are specific only to COVID, HVAC improvements and the technology that enable people who are sick to engage remotely are just as important. These are also advantageous investments as HVAC is infrastructure and the tech for remote learning helps low income students have access to resources that previously only upper income students had widely. [/quote]

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