Should schools reopen?

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Ka-pi96 said:
Don't know much about the US, but here in Japan they've already re-opened.

And I've gotta say I'm glad they have. I'm a teacher too and teaching online only sucked big time! I'm glad that things are a bit more normal than they were before. There are still all kinds of extra regulations and what not, but I'm still glad to be back.

I know the rate of infection has massively increased here again since re-opening, but IIRC that's mostly linked to nightlife stuff so wasn't really caused be schools re-opening.

Not surprising to me that Japan has reopened things. I tried to compare the cases and deaths per capita in the two countries and Japan wasn't even on the same scale because the total is almost two orders of magnitude less in cases and deaths than in the US. If the US was in the same place Japan is I'd be pretty comfortable opening schools too.