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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an RN married to an MD and work with Covid patients.  I get the risk. My husband had a long-standing patient in his 50's (no pre-existing conditions) die of the virus this week.  It's not a joke.

BUT my Facebook and Instagram is littered with pictures from across the country of kids going back to school: Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah. 
I have dozens of friends whose kids are back in school. 
Public and private.

It's maddening that we have between 25-50% of their rates of infection here in DC and our kids are home interminably.  I have no read hope that anyone will go back in 20-21.

I'm so torn.  I get the risk.  I am jealous beyond belief that much of the rest of the country is just sending their kids in 9-3pm each day.

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Troll. Anyone in the medical community understands why we are not in school. Those other places you mentioned are Trumper's or Trumpland how ever you want to spin it. We will go back, no one wants this but we know the score. 
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Completely fals, [b]spouse is a doctor and the many health care professionals we know all are in favor of returning to in person school.  It’s the teachers and other non medical people who are opposed.[/b][/quote]

OP here.  Spouse is a doctor and most of our friends are doctors.  The ones I saw on Facebook TODAY who are sending their kids in person:

family practice doctor in Lancaster PA. 
pediatric pulmonologist in Birmingham AL
cardiologist in Denver
peds ER doctor in Houston
cardiologist in Knoxville
peds ICU doctor in Nashville

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This. All the doctors and nurses I know believe there is a common sense middle ground where we can have in-person school with masks, distancing, probably alternate schedules. The people who seem most opposed to this, in my circle at least, are not teachers (most of whom are also parents and are being forced to make a lot of the same terrible choices as the rest of us). [b]It's the 20% or so of our friends who believe that they can eliminate risk from their lives if they just plan well enough and make the right choices. Usually well off, as that's the only people who can afford to live this way. And they are casting this overzealous approach as "socially and morally responsible" even though it's actually not possible for most people.[/b]

Most people in the medical profession are pragmatists. You have to be. You get used to weighing risks, and looking for ways to mitigate. Most procedures and medications carry risks, but they are often worth it because the underlying illness needs to be addressed. Sometimes you have to make hard choices.

I don't know a single doctor or medical professional who supports the plan to keep kids home from school until the virus is eradicated. Most don't even think we should keep kids home 100% now -- just that we should be careful and make smart choices.[/quote]

DP, and I totally agree.  I'd add that in our area, there's so much opposition to Trump that once he insisted schools open, there was a knee-jerk reaction that students must not go back in person, science and pragmatism be damned.  So, a lot of nice White liberals virtue signaling.

DC-area schools could absolutely be back in person now, at least for elementary kids.  That there's no option for that in public schools is shameful, in many ways.[/quote]

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