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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]

You're being way too reasonable for this crowd.[/quote]

DP. Not really. I'm talking to a lot of people in real life who think that whatever else goes on, there has to be school. I'm hearing this from parents, as well as from people who don't have kids but are hearing it from the parents at their workplaces. And I run in a generally quite liberal crowd. I haven't talked to anybody who thinks that schools have to stay closed until coronavirus is over, which doesn't mean there aren't any, I know. 
 
I remember how shocked I was at the beginning of all of this, reading that various countries had closed their schools (!) for two months (!!!). Now here we are, the kids missed three months of school already, and I'm telling my kids that I really, really, really hope they'll be back in the building on August 31 but who knows.[/quote]

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