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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Going to post this every time parents say schools should re-open.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1317125813154861057[/twitter][/quote]

I don’t think anyone who wants schools open denies that Covid exists. On the contrary, these people are saying it exists and it will continue to exist and we can’t just shut down an integral safety net because of it. Whatever your views on what school is supposed to be, in modern times it is a place that provides childcare. School is where many kids get their only meals and where they are exposed to adults that care about them. We prioritized opening everything in this country, even concert venues (the absurdity of someone wanting to see a concert in a pandemic!), but we completely forgot about the schools. At least the public ones. It’s not a matter of funding, we already spend more per student than most countries in the world. It’s not a matter of safety, since PPE could have been donated and classroom configurations could have been reworked. It’s a failure of leadership. We don’t prioritize education in this country. To put it bluntly, are a nation of selfish morons who can’t see beyond the short term. Instead of coming together as a country to help our children, we have dummies who are sitting around thinking “but why should I pay for some kid?”. Because educating our children benefits all of us as a nation, that’s why. Meanwhile the disparity between the social classes grows. The wealthy kids are all back in the classroom in private schools, continuing their learning. While the poor kids fall further and further behind. [/quote]

As a person who worked in disease prevention, schools and childcare are the secondary priority to getting an outbreak under control.

The U.S. has done nothing, full stop, to handle the Covid-19 pandemic in an effective and suitable manner. If CDC officials had handled Malaria, Ebola, SARs, H1N1, Zika, Typhoid, and HIV/AIDs in foreign countries the way U.S. officials are handling the Covid-19 pandemic they'd be brought up on human rights charges.

I'm sorry you're inconvenienced but education becomes secondary to a life-threatening disease that is swiftly working its way through a population.

The fact that you keep bringing up the notion that education should be prioritized in the long-term when 100,000s of Americans are dying across six months in the short-term is precisely the problem.[/quote]

I don’t disagree with you but literally EVERYTHING ELSE IS OPEN BESIDES SCHOOLS. My suggestion is to close restaurants bars and gyms, and open schools in a limited capacity. But we are too selfish to close things that WE enjoy, so we will just continue to keep closed the one thing that our children need.[/quote]

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