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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what one of Biden's advisors had to say on schools. This is from Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center and assistant professor at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.  Does it seem like this is how MCPS is thinking about the challenges of reopening?

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If you have widespread community transmission, there may come a tipping point where you do need to go back to virtual schooling. But I think the priority is to try to keep schools open as much as possible, and to provide the resources for that to happen.

From an epidemiologic perspective, we know that the highest-risk settings are restaurants, bars, gyms, nail salons and also indoor gatherings — social gatherings and private settings.

I would consider school an essential service. Those other things are not essential services. The smarter we are about being very responsive to trends in transmission — to closing indoor restaurants sooner — the longer you’re likely to be able to keep schools open.

We know that the risk of transmission in schools is not zero, but they’re not amplifying transmission the way some of these other places are.

We need to be supporting those businesses, whether it’s the restaurant owners and the people working in those restaurants, because it is not fair that they are bearing a very heavy brunt of the economic fallout from this.
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So, an infectious disease specialist. Check. Works for Biden, not Trump. Check. Thinks kids should be in school. Check. Doesn't believe schools are super spreader environments. Check. I mean this shreds most of the ignorant retorts that get tossed around on this board and on this thread. DL advocate clowns for the loss...[/quote]

But not a teacher. Apparently elementary school teachers are the world's foremost experts in infection control. Or something. It's so hard to keep track of their desperate arguments. [/quote]

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