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Science changes and is not monolithic. The evidence doesn't support closing schools to stop the coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/20/

Science changes and is not monolithic. The evidence doesn't support closing schools to stop the coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/20/health-202-evidence-doesnt-support-closing-schools-stop-coronavirus/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/20/health-20... Kids' role in pandemic still a mystery Hints that children don’t spread coronavirus efficiently prompt debate https://www.science.org/content/article/should-schools-reopen-kids-role-pandemic-still-mystery https://www.science.org/content/article/should-schools-reope... Schools don't pose higher COVID-19 risk than outside community: Canadian study https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/schools-don-t-pose-higher-covid-19-risk-than-outside-community-canadian-study-1.5481731 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/schools-don-t-pose...

croes 3y ago
You are looking at the wrong data. You must use studies about pandemic spreading before corona because in the pandemic with a new virus you can only make decisions because of knowledge you already have. Hindsight is 20/20. Imagine studies later would have revealed that children are super spreaders and they were responsible for the death of their parents or grandparents.
npunt 3y ago
These articles are from May 2020, Nov 2020, and Jun 2021. That's pre-vax, pre-delta, pre-omicron, etc. I wouldn't expect the science to be anywhere near definitive by those times. Personally I discount just about anything covid-related that was published in the first 12-18mos because the situation has changed so drastically and the science was rolling in really fast and loose early on.
spookthesunset 3y ago
> Science changes and is not monolithic. "The science" has nothing to do with closing schools. A myopic fixation on exactly one cause of harm (covid) caused school closures. We absolutely fucked our kids. For a disease, they weren't affected by at all. It takes an insane amount of privilege to think that all that mattered was covid. Even in March of 2020 there was far more important things to worry about than some respiratory virus whose median age of death was higher than the average life expectancy of a human. I find it incredible people still buy into the narrative that any of the lockdowns, school closures, or masks was worth it.
- superooled 3y ago
  Where I live (Wales, UK), the official government statistics on post-Covid school absences makes for troubling reading. It goes from "slight increase in absence" for middle-class kids, to "the upcoming generation will be uneducated" for certain socioeconomic groups.

croes 3y ago

You are looking at the wrong data. You must use studies about pandemic spreading before corona because in the pandemic with a new virus you can only make decisions because of knowledge you already have. Hindsight is 20/20. Imagine studies later would have revealed that children are super spreaders and they were responsible for the death of their parents or grandparents.

npunt 3y ago

These articles are from May 2020, Nov 2020, and Jun 2021. That's pre-vax, pre-delta, pre-omicron, etc. I wouldn't expect the science to be anywhere near definitive by those times. Personally I discount just about anything covid-related that was published in the first 12-18mos because the situation has changed so drastically and the science was rolling in really fast and loose early on.

spookthesunset 3y ago

> Science changes and is not monolithic. "The science" has nothing to do with closing schools. A myopic fixation on exactly one cause of harm (covid) caused school closures. We absolutely fucked our kids. For a disease, they weren't affected by at all. It takes an insane amount of privilege to think that all that mattered was covid. Even in March of 2020 there was far more important things to worry about than some respiratory virus whose median age of death was higher than the average life expectancy of a human. I find it incredible people still buy into the narrative that any of the lockdowns, school closures, or masks was worth it.

superooled 3y ago
Where I live (Wales, UK), the official government statistics on post-Covid school absences makes for troubling reading. It goes from "slight increase in absence" for middle-class kids, to "the upcoming generation will be uneducated" for certain socioeconomic groups.