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Because schools should never have been closed. People keep talking about “the science” yet refuse to follow it when it’s been shown many times that schools are

• fossuser 6y ago
  Because the arguments are bad. It’s not “the science” it’s the arguments. Throughout this pandemic “science” as authority has argued masks don’t work, or that they only work for healthcare workers, or that second order effects make it worse, or that it’s not spread via the air, etc. The school arguments are similarly dumb. In an enclosed poorly ventilated space the disease will spread and infect parents at home. I don’t buy that schools are somehow magic places not affected by this. Just because kids don’t have severe cases often doesn’t mean they don’t transmit the disease. Unless there’s a compelling mechanism that suggests otherwise I put “schools are safe to open” alongside “masks don’t work” in the group of dumb arguments that don’t make sense when you think about it for ten seconds.
  • disgruntledphd2 6y ago
    Well, the evidence from Europe (which mostly re-opened schools in Sept/Oct) would suggest that schools weren't a major source of transmission. And to be brutally honest, closing bars and restaurants so that schools can open seems like a fair trade to me (and our child is six months old, so this isn't a self-serving argument).
• tdeck 6y ago
  Look at these data: https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-outbreak-data/resource/165980a2-ecb7-464a-980e-f432701d77ef?filters=IndividualSetting%3AElementary+and+secondary+schools https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-outbreak-data/reso... There have been 119 outbreaks at California schools in the last 2 months. That's hardly what I'd call "safe".