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Because if there's one thing parents don't care about, it's their children's well being! (??)

JohnMakin 3y ago
It was proven definitively that sending children back to school during covid was putting theirs and others’ lives at risk, yet there wasn’t a big outcry about it, quite the opposite even. It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents. Valuable day care. It’s not a remotely controversial statement. It’s why you’re never going to win this battle on the merit of the science or the kids well being. I guarantee you if they proved sending kids to school at 9am daily would prevent a majority of childhood illness there’d still be a big push against it. It’s come up many times over the last few decades.
- em-bee 3y ago
  the problem is lack of support for parents. it should be a legal right to accommodate working times and locations so that parents can take care of their kids. there need to be benefits for companies hiring parents so that they are not favoring childless employees.
- khazhoux 3y ago
  > It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents That's one conclusion but not the only one. Another is that COVID was never shown to be a severe risks to children (symptoms were generally mild, in great majority of cases) and being out of school would stunt their education and impact their friend relationships, mental health, and more. Parents who pushed for their kids to stay in school (whether one agrees with the argument) did so out of concern for their well-being.
  - JohnMakin 3y ago
    The risk was not zero, and kids for a long time were not even able to get the vaccine. Additionally, they could spread to faculty or other family members, and many young kids have immune issues. This isn’t even mentioning long covid, which is a real risk, and the elevated risk of stuff like stroke in fairly young people. In other words, you’re just parroting the propaganda of that time that was fairly provably wrong. Maybe some parents thought it was actually “better” for their kids, but they were still accepting some risk over convenience even if they believed the lie.
    - khazhoux 3y ago
      > you're just parroting the propaganda Using language like this is just belittling me, and this is no longer an earnest discussion.

It was proven definitively that sending children back to school during covid was putting theirs and others’ lives at risk, yet there wasn’t a big outcry about it, quite the opposite even. It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents. Valuable day care. It’s not a remotely controversial statement. It’s why you’re never going to win this battle on the merit of the science or the kids well being. I guarantee you if they proved sending kids to school at 9am daily would prevent a majority of childhood illness there’d still be a big push against it. It’s come up many times over the last few decades.

em-bee 3y ago
the problem is lack of support for parents. it should be a legal right to accommodate working times and locations so that parents can take care of their kids. there need to be benefits for companies hiring parents so that they are not favoring childless employees.
khazhoux 3y ago
> It’s easy to draw conclusions as to why - school provides free day care to most parents That's one conclusion but not the only one. Another is that COVID was never shown to be a severe risks to children (symptoms were generally mild, in great majority of cases) and being out of school would stunt their education and impact their friend relationships, mental health, and more. Parents who pushed for their kids to stay in school (whether one agrees with the argument) did so out of concern for their well-being.
- JohnMakin 3y ago
  The risk was not zero, and kids for a long time were not even able to get the vaccine. Additionally, they could spread to faculty or other family members, and many young kids have immune issues. This isn’t even mentioning long covid, which is a real risk, and the elevated risk of stuff like stroke in fairly young people. In other words, you’re just parroting the propaganda of that time that was fairly provably wrong. Maybe some parents thought it was actually “better” for their kids, but they were still accepting some risk over convenience even if they believed the lie.
  - khazhoux 3y ago
    > you're just parroting the propaganda Using language like this is just belittling me, and this is no longer an earnest discussion.