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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out School Personnel Lost To Covid on Twitter.

It's heartbreaking. There are so many that you wonder how the hell schools are open. [/quote]

That Twitter account is a good amount of emotional manipulation.  When you include as purported school-related covid deaths private music instructors who didn’t work for any schools and a woman who most likely caught it from her elderly father, you’re being pretty disingenuous.[/quote]

sure go ahead and minimize the teacher deaths. Go through the feed, if you can. A lot of them were working in person in schools. Or just google.

or just keep going and minimize the teacher deaths....[/quote]

It’s not minimizing teacher deaths, it’s refusing to make policy decisions based on a misleading and manipulative Twitter account.  That account doesn’t provide any data, it doesn’t even provide evidence to suggest the teachers contracted the virus at schools (if anything, the stories that had some indication o go where it was likely caught indicates it was somewhere other than the school).  All you’re doing by citing to this is to try to shame people into adopting your opinion because you don’t have actual evidence to support it.  Those individuals were real people, not just tools for your agenda.

Also, if you’d actually read the feed yourself, you’d see that a lot of them weren’t teachers.  But I guess bus drivers aren’t as compelling to you, they’re fungible in your world.[/quote]

I haven’t read this twitter account but I really think you are splitting hairs.  When people’s health is threatened to the extent it is with Covid 19, and when what we do definitively know about the disease is that it has an aerosol transmission, people are going to have to weigh the risks and costs for themselves.  After all, they will have to pay the ultimate price if the odds turn out badly for them, so squabbling about what exactly those odds are seems a bit petty.  For my part, until a respected epidemiologist provides some hardcore scientific data that explains to me why school buildings are magically safe spaces of low transmission, I will scoff at your claims that “science” supports opening schools.  Public health PHDs and economists crunching woefully incomplete data is not science.  That is risk assessment, much like the kind your life insurance agency might do to establish your premium.

Anybody who has suffered or died from this disease has my utmost sympathy.  I don’t care what job the person has.  What is deplorable to me is how badly managed this pandemic has been by our country’s leaders.  I blame the U.S. Senate and a corrupt, incompetent executive branch for gross misconduct.  Right now, we are all dealing with the fallout and trying to function as normally as possible, but this is not normal.  
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