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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]

+100. First it was to flatten the curve, then it just continued. And now it seems like the new goal is 0% risk. 0% risk is not logical or attainable. Yet, here we are with no end date. I mean, we can't just keep the school situation all messed up for an undisclosed period of time. It's ridiculous. [/quote]

I don't think it will be for an undisclosed period of time.  I think [b]after the vaccine comes out[/b] the kids will go back.  I wish I could believe that it was coming sooner rather than later but it doesn't seem to be realistic.[/quote]

"after the vaccine comes out" = "an undisclosed period of time"

It seems likely that there will be a vaccine at some point. But there's no guarantee. And we don't know when.[/quote]

It’s ridiculous to wait for a vaccine.  For an RNA virus!  Not going to happen anytime soon.  [/quote]

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