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I think it’s crazy to see comments like this because there is this presumption that we know what all the edge cases are regarding coronavirus complications. Jus
by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
I think it’s crazy to see comments like this because there is this presumption that we know what all the edge cases are regarding coronavirus complications. Just see the recent stories of the CDC itself having to shut down offices because the lockdown period allowed an emergence of Legionella.
Personally I think it’s way too soon to reopen schools really anywhere, even in cities or countries with mask mandates and positive test rates around 1% or lower.
We just absolutely don’t know what the effects will be. We’ve never shut down school buildings for months and reopened them. We’ve never needed to understand the effects on busing, learning rates, transmission via children to adults, effects of children being back in these buildings, etc. etc.
It feels so shortsighted to act like the only issues we need to certify are first order, direct properties of the virus itself, like testing, masks, transmission rates, and not being more humble to say, wait a minute, we just totally do not know all the effects or edge cases we need to be worried about.