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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]49 pages and counting of the same over and over again:

We are fine, send kids to school. If some get sick, it's ok.

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School is not your childcare, hunker down for the next two years.  It doesn't matter if you lose your job and can't feed those kids.[/quote]
Both are oversimplifications. It is not "fine" that some people will get sick and die. We hear you! You think it's cool if other people die or lose their family members. Guess what? Maybe other people aren't quite so cavalier about death! 
There won't be school five days a week any more. The reason for this is to reduce the dangerous overcrowding that has gone on for years as a result of budget cuts.[b] Employers are going to have to shift their models as well. People with children are going to have to work different shifts, telework, etc.[/b] That's the reality of the situation. You can demand that the schools will just open up at full capacity and shrug while people get sick, are hospitalized, and even die-but no one is going to go along with that plan. [/quote]

The bolded will only happen in a very limited capacity, if at all.  Instead, working mothers are going to continue to bear the brunt of the lack of childcare.

Also: you can’t realistically telework AND manage schooling for kids at the same time.  The past few months have shown us that.

Also: there are other considerations in these decisions beyond deaths from COVID-19.  To think otherwise is yet another oversimplification.[/quote]

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