No one thinks that anyone thinks it's a good thing that children's lives were disrupted. No one thinks anyone is pro-pandemic. The question is, and always was,

No one thinks that anyone thinks it's a good thing that children's lives were disrupted. No one thinks anyone is pro-pandemic. The question is, and always was, about priorities and what's acceptable to inflict upon young people "just to be on the safe side". The worst part about school closures is how pseudoscientific the rationale was, and the most infuriating part is that it came with a generous dollop of patronizing "trust the science" exhortations. Closing schools was a terrible mistake, and until we countenance that, it's going to be a problem.