Anonymous wrote:It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

We aren’t paying a “heavy” price for it. The kids will be fine.

It’s not like that was some unique or unprecedented phenomenon. Children in war zones go without schooling for years. They experience actual trauma and turn out fine. These overly anxious mommies going all Karen mad in school boards years after the fact whinging about “learning loss” really need to check themselves.

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You must not be dealing with the aftermath in your family. Also, what about learning from our mistakes? Not so easy to move on when people like you are in DENIAL.

I know four separate families where someone died from Covid. Two of them were parents of young children.

Sit down with your “dealing with the aftermath” bullshit.

I really don’t care that your child has a learning gap or whatever you are on about. They will get over it.

Maybe see a professional for help with your heinously insensitive obsession with this.

And those families will get over the deaths. People die of a lot of things. Such is the way of life and death. Covid didn't rob humans of immortality.

Kids had learning gaps as parents did not work with them and have them attend. Years later the same parents are screaming learning loss still. In person has been back two years. My kids did virtual for three. We made it work. I’d rather have kids virtual than have someone lose a loved one vv

Do you work away from home? I'd rather kids in-person than be victim to statistical anomalies. People die. In fact, 100% of people die.

That’s what I’ll say to you the next time someone you love does.

Are you the one saying "oh well! Must have been mentally weak" about the Covid suicides? Because yeah, that's what you're doing.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

The kids paid a heavy price, and their parents. The people who made these decisions aren't paying anything and will never be held accountable.

You keep forgetting to mention the teachers who might have refused to go to work or quit if they had been forced back. Who was going to do the teaching? Why do you expect people to sacrifice for you?

Who produced food for you? Who delivered those groceries, that take-out? Who provided your utilities, your internet, your water? Who policed your community? Who maintained the roads and infrastructure? Who worked the airports and transportation to keep goods moving? Why do you expect any of the people to have sacrificed for you?

Anonymous wrote:It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

Thanks, Trump. You had one job. Be like Bush after 9/11.

Anonymous wrote:There should be Nuremberg type trials for this whole debacle. I will never forget what they did.

So much irrational hate.

I still have no clue why all the playgrounds got fenced off and closed. WHY?!

We tried very hard to keep things normal for our small kids, but as parents we paid a heavy price. I changed a lot as a parent and also as a person. I had a great life beforehand filled with friends and relatives. It made me realize that you can't rely on anyone. Grandparents just huddled in their houses by themselves while kids had mental breakdown and parents nearly lost their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

The kids paid a heavy price, and their parents. The people who made these decisions aren't paying anything and will never be held accountable.

You keep forgetting to mention the teachers who might have refused to go to work or quit if they had been forced back. Who was going to do the teaching? Why do you expect people to sacrifice for you?

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You must not be dealing with the aftermath in your family. Also, what about learning from our mistakes? Not so easy to move on when people like you are in DENIAL.

I know four separate families where someone died from Covid. Two of them were parents of young children.

Sit down with your “dealing with the aftermath” bullshit.

I really don’t care that your child has a learning gap or whatever you are on about. They will get over it.

Maybe see a professional for help with your heinously insensitive obsession with this.

And those families will get over the deaths. People die of a lot of things. Such is the way of life and death. Covid didn't rob humans of immortality.

Kids had learning gaps as parents did not work with them and have them attend. Years later the same parents are screaming learning loss still. In person has been back two years. My kids did virtual for three. We made it work. I’d rather have kids virtual than have someone lose a loved one vv

Do you work away from home? I'd rather kids in-person than be victim to statistical anomalies. People die. In fact, 100% of people die.

That’s what I’ll say to you the next time someone you love does.

There should be Nuremberg type trials for this whole debacle. I will never forget what they did.

Anonymous wrote:It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

The kids paid a heavy price, and their parents. The people who made these decisions aren't paying anything and will never be held accountable.

It would be great to have a non-partisan assessment of what worked and what didn’t work. Everything is so politicized and polarized it is ridiculous.

I think one important lesson is that schools stayed closed far too long, and we are paying a heavy price for that.

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Looking back, the amount of effort expended *post vaccine* for “safety measures” seems quite absurd and I do not think it will be repeated.

Yep, I guess the silver lining to my kids being subjected to this nonsense is that it won't happen to the future generation.

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Anonymous wrote:Sure schools could have opened sooner if they had more resources, but in our area the same idiots who were calling for schools to open full time were also calling for them to open without any safety measures. That in my opinion held things up more. It was nuts.

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Then they were anti-mask. WTF? So illogical.

They seem to have some kind of oppositional disorder.

Yes … so opposition to (checks note) want kids to be in school. I’m not sure what “safety measures” you’re talking about but in DC these always seemed to be a moving target. Remember that the reopening was post-vaccine in DC. The safety measures like small class size, quarantine for exposure, masks, etc, were quite disruptive for a whole year + and a big waste of money (eg testing after returning from Christmas). Stupid sh*t like making the kids hold pool noodles on the playground so they would distance properly outside. (Then once the kids of course started bashing each other with the pool noodles, they were banned.) That said, I am grateful that our school was more reasonable (lazy?) than some and never tried to do outdoor lunch or make kids eat silently or nonsense like that.

The massive silver lining of Omicron is that it ripped off the bandaid. Kids stayed in school in DC even as everyone got covid. Our school had 5-6 cases/week for a while but stayed open with minimal disruption. It was fine! I was shocked but happy when DCPS went mask optional in March.

Looking back, the amount of effort expended *post vaccine* for “safety measures” seems quite absurd and I do not think it will be repeated.

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You must not be dealing with the aftermath in your family. Also, what about learning from our mistakes? Not so easy to move on when people like you are in DENIAL.

I know four separate families where someone died from Covid. Two of them were parents of young children.

Sit down with your “dealing with the aftermath” bullshit.

I really don’t care that your child has a learning gap or whatever you are on about. They will get over it.

Maybe see a professional for help with your heinously insensitive obsession with this.

And those families will get over the deaths. People die of a lot of things. Such is the way of life and death. Covid didn't rob humans of immortality.

Kids had learning gaps as parents did not work with them and have them attend. Years later the same parents are screaming learning loss still. In person has been back two years. My kids did virtual for three. We made it work. I’d rather have kids virtual than have someone lose a loved one vv

Do you work away from home? I'd rather kids in-person than be victim to statistical anomalies. People die. In fact, 100% of people die.

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You must not be dealing with the aftermath in your family. Also, what about learning from our mistakes? Not so easy to move on when people like you are in DENIAL.

I know four separate families where someone died from Covid. Two of them were parents of young children.

Sit down with your “dealing with the aftermath” bullshit.

I really don’t care that your child has a learning gap or whatever you are on about. They will get over it.

Maybe see a professional for help with your heinously insensitive obsession with this.

And I know 2 separate families with young children, where parents committed suicide due to lockdowns and losing their business. So you can take all the seats.

And, I know multiple people who have died of covid. We didn't have a real lockdown. Businesses were closed but loans and grants were available and if they could not float the business for a few months it probably was failing already, especially if they had no savings or they were spending too much. Or, they had depression and other issues prior. A health person does not commit suicide over their businesses being close a few weeks because of covid. And, a good business person would readjust what they are doing. Lots of businesses did and survived just fine.

DP. Wow. You are an absolutely horrible person. Yikes.

Seriously! Just when you think you’ve seen it all here this quality individual rolls in….

I bet it’s the same poster who claims her kids are happy to still do virtual schooling. She shows up on every covid policies thread and claims there was no lockdown, and people who were affected by closures are just weaklings.

China had lockdowns. We had closures because of public health. Virtual school was fine.

No in DC we were ordered to stay in our residences with narrow exceptions. I won’t even address your assertion about schools, which nobody agrees with, not even the teachers unions. Everyone acknowledges virtual was a massive failure even if they justify it as necessary for health.