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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the people pushing for DL — be they teachers, staffers, parents, or whoever — honestly feel that DL is an adequate substitute for children? Self/driven adults seeking pro dev? Sure! But kids? [b]Can you honestly say that?[/b] And at what age and for how many hours a day do you think this is true? Straight answers, please — no “it’s better th an nothing” or “we all have to sacrifice.” Really answer the question.[/quote]

In normal times, no. In a pandemic, yes. And for as long as necessary because it is not possible to create the conditions listed as precautions.[/quote]

DP, but really?  You really think preventing COVID deaths is the only consideration in our society?  Really?[/quote]

Only, no. Top, yes. The death of a loved one impacts children emotionally, socially, educationally, and financially. Really.[/quote]

And what's the death rate that leads you to conclude that the death of a grandparent (much less commonly, a parent of young kids) is more traumatic than the cumulative stress of social isolation, missing school, potentially living in an unsafe home, having parents laid off, etc.  What's the calculus there?

Here's another way to think about it: severe child abuse is increasing during the pandemic.  What are the lives of those kids worth?[/quote]

How much death are you willing to tolerate?[/quote]

Death of whom?  And what are the trade-offs?

You probably don't know that in many hospitals, physicians were/are considering unilateral DNR orders in cases when patients with COVID crashed, because of the substantial risk that resuscitating them posed to medical staff who, if they became infected, couldn't care for other patients.  Ethics aren't that simple, as much as you may want them to be.[/quote]

Which lives are not worth saving in your opinion?  I'm not discounting that there is a huge cost to closing schools.  I'm saying there will be a cost to opening them, which you are assuming is smaller than the cost of keeping them closed.  You may be right but I certainly am not in a position to determine that, and I suspect you are not either.

The unilateral DNR orders is a great example of why it's important to prevent people from catching COVID.  [/quote]

No, of course I'm not in a position to make these decisions.  And I don't even know that DL isn't the least bad option of multiple bad options; it may well be.  My point is that [b]we can't just yell "COVID!!" and pretend that there are no negatives that stem from the COVID mitigation efforts, which is what many PPs are doing. [/b] I would hope that those who do make these decisions are considering the various trade-offs.  I know there are no easy answers.[/quote]

That's not how I read the PPs.  And back in early March these boards were full of posters concerned that schools had not yet been closed.  Officials hadn't closed them yet precisely because they knew it would come at a huge cost.  I don't know if they made the right decision at the right time but they certainly weren't ignoring the costs of closing schools, and I don't think they are now either.  Not to say the decision-making process is going well, I just don't think that is the specific problem.[/quote]

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