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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why everyone thinks this is so simple. “Ugh, why is this so hard!” “Duh, they just have to go back to school!”

I am a parent and a teacher and I am here to tell you that this is complicated. It’s not simple. Putting 500-3000 wiggly, non-rule following humans in a tight space every day in the middle of a pandemic is a challenge. Even if they tend to be asymptomatic. Even if you have to go to work. If we are going to have a real conversation about what needs to happen to open, people on both sides need to agree on the basics. [/quote]

But we won't be "in the middle of a pandemic". The numbers are declining everywhere despite things opening up. [/quote]

We just don't know this yet.  Things have only been opening for a couple weeks.  I am hesitantly optimistic since we are now 2 weeks out from Memorial Day and the numbers are still trending steadily down but the lag between actions and changes to the data in this disease seems to be closer to 1 month than to 2 weeks.  We will not know until end of June/early July.  If numbers are still going down then, that's a lot different than if they stagnate or go back up.  We just don't know and that is frustrating and makes it very hard to plan for the fall.  And I do expect a second wave with flu season.  I don't see how it is at all avoidable.  Also, even if we don't get COVID, if I have to keep my ES kid home every time she has a cough or runny nose, she's going to miss half the winter anyway.[/quote]

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