The American Academy of Pediatrics and Dr Fauci both say that schools should be reopened.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/us/aap-kids-physically-in-school-wellness-trnd/index.html
If you claim to listen to the experts (doctors and the leading national governmental authority on infectious disease), I think you might want to dig in on this one a little more.
I totally understand this. But look at it - look at the reasons keeping kids at home is problematic: lack of socialization, physical/sexual abuse, depression/suicide.....all from being in a broken home environment.
That's disturbing, isn't it? We're just chalking up these things as the reality of the situation, so let's get them to school to avoid these things.
That's one side of it. I understand kids being in school benefits them, but the real-world, inevitable downside of it matters, too. Here, I'm switching from the macro, wide-lense statistical view to the focused, daily life, small-sample view.
My school is around 1,000 students. Are any of them going to die? Probably not, but maybe 1 or 2? Okay, so maybe a student dies.
Those 1,000 students probably live with 2-3,000 family members, many of which are old. How many of them are going to die?
It's horrible either way is what I'm saying. But hey, hopefully the pervy uncle sexually abusing a kid gets Covid and dies, huh?
