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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you folks also think war is unfair? Cancer, car accidents, terrorism? I feel like I’m reading a lot of people on here just shocked that tragedy can be so unfair to them. This is literally a global catastrophe. It doesn’t care how this will “work” for you.[/quote]

It's not nearly the global catastrophe you are making it out to be.

Also, it's not a catastrophe that required schools to close. [/quote]
You’re wrong. 465,000 people are dead. 9/11 killed less than 3,000. [b]It is an unparalleled tragedy. [/b]You are alone if you think that’s just business as usual. [/quote]

Huh? No it's not. It might be a paralleled tragedy, but it sure isn't an unparalleled one.[/quote]

Yeah, it’s awful, but unparalleled tragedy?  No.  Frankly, our administration’s handling of it is the bigger tragedy.  They’re responsible for many needless deaths.

I’ve said it before on here and I’ll say it again: COVID-19 is not the only public health problem right now.  Also: kids not going to school for potentially several years is a significant public health problem.[/quote]
How is distance learning a significant public health problem? Please, enlighten us. [/quote]
DP. Things that come to mind without much thinking: Mental health of kids due to isolation, child abuse, physical and mental stress related to financial problems.[/quote]
I don’t see any reasonable statistician who believes that children will suffer dire mental health consequences of distance learning. Child abuse has not and can not be prevented by attending school for seven hours a day, five days a week, ten months out of the year. Stop trying to blame school systems for abusive parents-that is a case of harm being directly inflicted on a child by their own family. The school doesn’t shoulder that blame. 
None of those issues would cause anywhere near half a million deaths in a few months, as COVID already has-I’m sorry, but mitigation of the virus is more important than any of those i things. [/quote]

The executive director of UNICEF would beg to differ.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/opinions/time-to-reopen-schools-covid-19-fore/index.html[/quote]

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