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

This. I really hope public pressure is going to become so intense that the safetyists won't be able to implement their indefinite school reduction plan for more than a few months.

I've been fully compliant will stay-at-home orders, I diligently wear a mask when I go among people and I think everyone should (except young kids), but keeping kids in very part-time school for the foreseeable future is a crazy plan and really discredits the whole lockdown approach, to goal of which was ostensibly to flatten the curve and prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed. Covid will be with us for a while and life has never been risk-free. We have to weigh costs and benefits, as we do in all areas of life. It's not like Covid is such an outsized threat compared to all the other things one could die of on any given day that we should just completely stop forever living normal lives with reasonable precautions. I hardly ever agree with Republicans on anything, but on this matter, they have a point.

I know everyone is counting on a vaccine within the next year but that is far from certain.[/quote]
So you want schools to open up full time at full capacity, without masks. Simply, you are not going to get your way. Public pressure doesn't trump safety, and doesn't magically fund our schools or any of the incredibly expensive measures we'd need to implement in order to open them.[/quote]

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