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> 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 sc
by 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 agoWhere 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.