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OK, then let's think of it this way: How many people would you be willing to have die in your extended family to ensure that kids could go back to school? One? Two? Would it be worth it?  If your answer is "zero" then you have no moral leg to stand on in making your argument. Because that means you'd be willing to sacrifice other people's family members but not your own.[/quote]

No, let's think of it this way. What non-essential activities can be avoided/reduced/closed, in order to reduce community spread, so that kids can go to school (an essential activity)?[/quote]

OK go ahead and name a few. You can close restaurants, stores and bars. You can close movie theaters and professional sports. You can have people work from home where possible. This will reduce overall community spread but it will merely slow down, not end, spread in schools. Schools will become the primary vector for family infection and community spread. 
If you want to limit spread in schools, the most effective way to do that is cut off modes of transmission by having all kids wear masks, ensuring adequate social distancing (which, given the crowded state of most public schools, means only a fraction of students can be in the building at any given time), and routinely test students and contact trace and require contacts to self isolate for 14 days when positive cases are found.

I suspect this would actually be more disruptive to families' lives then full time distance learning, but it would get kids back in school buildings for at least part of the time. [/quote]

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