Hi, I’m not Bari, but I agree with her on most things including the school closures. Aside from the very early pandemic days of 2020 when EVERYTHING was closed, it made no sense to keep *only* schools closed while the rest of society reopened. The people vulnerable people you cite were still vulnerable and would have been regardless of s…
Hi, I’m not Bari, but I agree with her on most things including the school closures. Aside from the very early pandemic days of 2020 when EVERYTHING was closed, it made no sense to keep *only* schools closed while the rest of society reopened. The people vulnerable people you cite were still vulnerable and would have been regardless of schools. Unless they were so ultra quarantined that nobody in their household worked outside the home, went shopping, traveled, ate at a restaurant, etc., they were being exposed anyway and with schools closed it was only kids who suffered. As for what could have been done about vulnerable students and staff, that’s what medical accommodations are for - remote school and work arrangements, long term disability leave, etc. Exceptions always exist for exceptional circumstances, but if all of society only functioned to “protect the vulnerable” nobody would ever leave the house because there is literally nothing in life that is risk free. If the goal is to eliminate all risk for all people we better outlaw cars ASAP…and so forth.
Hi, I’m not Bari, but I agree with her on most things including the school closures. Aside from the very early pandemic days of 2020 when EVERYTHING was closed, it made no sense to keep *only* schools closed while the rest of society reopened. The people vulnerable people you cite were still vulnerable and would have been regardless of schools. Unless they were so ultra quarantined that nobody in their household worked outside the home, went shopping, traveled, ate at a restaurant, etc., they were being exposed anyway and with schools closed it was only kids who suffered. As for what could have been done about vulnerable students and staff, that’s what medical accommodations are for - remote school and work arrangements, long term disability leave, etc. Exceptions always exist for exceptional circumstances, but if all of society only functioned to “protect the vulnerable” nobody would ever leave the house because there is literally nothing in life that is risk free. If the goal is to eliminate all risk for all people we better outlaw cars ASAP…and so forth.