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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should schools be open when there’s hurricanes so that people don’t beat their kids? What about blizzards? I recall MCPS closing for three weeks. Maybe schools should be open 24/7/365 so that people don’t beat their kids? Because clearly the onus is not on the people who beat their kids, but schools for being closed.[/quote]

35,000+ people die every year in car crashes. If we close the roads and ban automobiles, that rate would plummet. Why do we allow people to drive cars?

Because life is a matter of trade-offs. Scientists talk about it from a scientific perspective (as they should) but don't consider the other implications.

[b]I guarantee if kids go back to school, more people will get corona, and more people will die. The question is -- how bad will it be? 
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We allow cars on the road, despite more people dying by doing so. It's a trade off.[/quote]

Probably not very bad. Here is a report about a recent study published in Nature:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/lockdowns-may-have-helped-prevent-half-a-billion-covid-cases?sref=Of7mcH17

The study showed the benefits of lockdowns, and then says this about schools:

"There was no strong evidence that school closures had an effect in any country, and the team said that more research should be done to inform decisions on opening or closing schools."

Yes, they recommend more research. But so far, despite a world-wide experiment in lockdowns and school closures, we don't have any evidence to conclude that school closures have any benefits. Given their enormous harms on many levels, that should be enough to reopen schools until evidence suggests they need to be closed.[/quote]

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