> that would mean admitting how utterly dismal our Covid response has been Only if there would've been a better way. While COVID surely could've been handled a

> that would mean admitting how utterly dismal our Covid response has been Only if there would've been a better way. While COVID surely could've been handled a bit better overall, I don't think a lockdown was fully avoidable (note that it escaped Wuhan while the city was in a lockdown stricter than anything seen outside of Wuhan) and remote learning is, as shown above, not ideal either. So I don't think admitting that this school year was bad equals admitting a bad response to COVID.