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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools will open when it's safe, and they'll remain in DL if it isn't. That's all there is to it. [/quote]

The problem is "safe" is a relative term. Some would say safe is now-when we effectively flattened the curve in this area. Others think "safe" is when there is this magical vaccine that everyone is so sure we are going to get. In that case "safe" could be in 5-7 years. Are you ok with your kids doing distance learning for 5-7 years? [/quote]

The curve flattened because we stayed home. Open up schools and it'll turn right back upward again.[/quote]

You do not know that. Things have been opening now for the past month, and the numbers have continued to go down.[/quote]

I think the PP is right that the curve flattened because many people stayed home. She is wrong that SCHOOL closures played a major role in that flattening, given that kids aren't really spreading the virus much. Which is why it would make so much sense to open schools, but maintain other precautions in place.[/quote]

I mean a reason that kids aren't spreading the virus could be that they haven't been in school.  Or it could be that they wouldn't have spread it even if they were in school.  We really won't know until schools open and kids spend hours together in enclosed spaces, in places where the virus is not contained.  We don't know what things will look like in the fall in Montgomery County.  [/quote]

We do know it from the elementary schools in Sweden that never closed, and where infections among kids aren't higher than elsewhere, even if their overall cases are due to their lack of a general lockdown of adult-centered activities. We also know it from the experience with Y camps in the US this summer. And we know it because in all the contact tracing studies they have done, NOT A SINGLE CASE has been found where an adult caught Covid from a kid, or a kid caught it from a kid.

Schools being open should be the default. Closing them should require evidence that kids actually do contribute to the spread. Keeping them closed should certainly not be based on a completely lack of evidence that they do contribute to the spread, and mounting evidence that they do not.[/quote]

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