Should schools reopen?

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NightlyPoe said:

vivster said:

It sounds simplistic because it is simple. Priorities exist, for example dead kid worse than kid who had to repeat a grade.

Those are not equal options.  However, is a dead kid equal to 1,000,000 kids repeating a grade, becoming more addicted to screens, less socially capable, more stratified along racial and economic lines?  Is it equal to the increase in crime, suicide, and basic adult functionality that will come with it?

Heck, 2 1/2 months indoors and adults started burning down cities at the first excuse.  This is not healthy.

You're also forgetting that it's the teachers that are most at risk here.

Again, most teachers work in an environment where they are the single adult and the students are unlikely to pass along the virus.  The dangers can be mitigated for them as effectively as any other essential profession.

Now NightlyPoe, your focused on the drawbacks of kids not going back to school.

Time to look at the drawbacks of them doing so:
1) they will spread it to the teachers, their parents when they get home, and their grandparents, all of whom can spread it to others, outside that circle.
2) the extra spread, may lead to a virus accelerateing in spread, so much it forces the USA to go back into 2-3 months of shutdowns again.

What happends if, the US needs another 2months or more of a shutdown, due to school kids spreading the virus?

How many job losses, suicides, homeless will that bring? How many extra people will die as a result, of reopening schools? (more spread = more deaths)