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Correct. The cost of opening is more than just the the number of deaths caused by COVID. Community spread has to be considered, as well as the cost of putting reasonable mitigation measures in place. There are many competing interests that need to be considered on both sides.

It’s just like those who don’t think that shutting down was necessary. There might be truth to that under ideal circumstances. If we had enough PPE for everyone, if testing was readily available, if we had isolated and tested travelers earlier, if we had better contact tracing, etc., maybe we wouldn’t have needed to shut down. But we didn’t.

In a perfect would, we could protect teachers with plexiglass, add extra buses to allow social distancing, provide high quality masks to all teachers in school, have instant testing for staff or kids exhibiting minor symptoms, have extra custodial staff,  have a solid plan in place for excluding sick kids and making sure they don’t lose out if they can’t come to school for two weeks, have staggered start times,  etc.  If we had all of those things, then[b] the risk of reopening would likely be outweighed by the educational and mental health needs of children and the economic need for parents to have childcare[/b]. But we don’t live in a perfect world and we don’t have all of those things.

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It already is. As you say, we don't live in a perfect world. We can't do all of the mitigation measures. So we send the kids back to school with the mitigation measures we can do.[/quote]

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