And yet, Sweden never closed their schools - and as far as I'm aware didn't have increased incidence in teachers relative to the rest of the population. This article is about a teacher who got sick despite not having students there, and who seems to have been in increased contact with other adults relative to pre-COVID times. (Since she shared a classroom with two others while doing remote learning, which is presumably not normally the case) At least to me, that doesn't seem directly applicable to "can we bring back students safely".
There was an obvious optimal solution at the start of all of this, which is the same thing many other countries did: have a national lockdown for 1-2 months or so with everyone paid to stay home so that total number of new cases drops very low, then remove the lockdown and use comprehensive contact tracing and testing to quickly respond to new outbreaks.
Instead the federal executive branch acted in a worse than useless manner by being actively counterproductive, while various state governors refused to do anything because acting sensibly contradicted their political beliefs.
But Bill Gates is only a good person to listen to when he agrees with the current political zeitgeist - otherwise he's a billionaire monopolist who should thus be ignored.
Honestly, I'd love to hear what circumstances people would accept opening schools in. Would "COVID is 10x less deadly than chicken pox for children under 15" be enough, if there was some way to protect teachers? What about "less deadly than driving to school for a year"?
DuskStar|5 years ago
dredmorbius|5 years ago
Unlike the film, most definitely not light comedy.
There are no good choices, no easy decisions, no Pareto-optimal solutions.
crooked-v|5 years ago
Instead the federal executive branch acted in a worse than useless manner by being actively counterproductive, while various state governors refused to do anything because acting sensibly contradicted their political beliefs.
foolzcrow|5 years ago
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RickJWagner|5 years ago
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bill-gates-says-school...
DuskStar|5 years ago
Honestly, I'd love to hear what circumstances people would accept opening schools in. Would "COVID is 10x less deadly than chicken pox for children under 15" be enough, if there was some way to protect teachers? What about "less deadly than driving to school for a year"?