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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you advocating for immediate widespread school closures, when do you think they should reopen? What would your trigger be? I see a lot of insistence that school closure will stop or slow an epidemic, but little discussion of how we know that has happened and schools can reopen. One PP above stated they should be closed until manufacturing capacity is improved, which could literally be years. What other triggers should be used?

If your answer is years of timr, I cannot see how school closure is prudent.[/quote]

I’m a NP but I think we should close for around 2-3 weeks to see what the virus is going and go from there. Of course nobody can give a hard end date. Nobody knows exactly what will happen. We can only guess based on what we’ve seen in other countries. [/quote]

Forgot to add that this time should also be spend actually TESTING people. [/quote]

PP here. I would be fine with closures of 2-4 weeks, but my guess is that in 2-4 weeks we will be in the same situation as we are today, and then what? I'd even be okay with going to end of school year (though I think that would have severe impact on availability of healthcare workers and also people would take their kids to their jobs). But what happens when they close for a period and nothing changes?

Look, I am not trying to be argumentative, but I don't see a lot of clear-headed thinking in this thread. I unfortunately think that we need to prepare for a world where COVID-19 is a widely circulating virus. Do we permanently close schools? What do we do?[/quote]

Agree. We could close schools for 2-4 weeks and the first day back a teacher or student could show up sick. Then we are back to square one. Especially if they are not going to ground air and cruise travel (looking like they aren't) closing school does nothing. You could still be infected by Karen who just got back from Italy. [/quote]

+1 to you both.  Glad to see there are a few folks with common sense on this thread.[/quote]

You fail to see the benefit of mitigation of spread. Slowing down the spread will ensure adequate access to healthcare. No pile up on the hospitals all cases at once.

You are welcome.[/quote]

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