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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

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A vaccine is being developed now.  That is the plan, so we can have it more controlled like the flu.  My guess is that a medicine will likely be developed as well, to avoid disruptions that we are experiencing now.[/quote]

No, we don't need to permanently close anything. Exposure to the novel coronavirus is inevitable. The vaccine will be ready in about 2 years.

BUT.

We need closures now to prevent a deadly spike in cases that will overwhelm our healthcare system, which is already operating at capacity from flu patients.

We need to slow down the epidemic to stagger hospitalizations so that patients aren't dying in corridors, like in Italy or China.

That's all, and it's so simple to understand once you frame it in terms of hospital capacity, but apparently people just don't get it!

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Personally I am not convinced that closing schools now will do much to slow the hospitalization rate. I am willing to try, though, and would not oppose it in my district. But I think a lot of the posters in this thread are living in a bit of a fantasy land about the impact and are also myopically ignoring (or don't care) about how most Americans will feed their kids, keep their jobs, or pay their rent if schools are closed. I get a distinct "let them eat cake" sense from the more rabid pro-closure posters that's really off-putting.[/quote]

How do you think Italy, Chun, S. Korea, Japan managed it? They too have real people with real problems. Americans are too damn whiny, entitled and selfish.[/quote]

They haven't managed it. WTF. Have you been following the news at all?

Look, I agree with closure, but there sure seems to be a lot of magical thinking in this thread about the health impact it will have, combined with privilege blindness over the impact of school closures on people's lives. [/quote]

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