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Schools reopening should be high priority, but "how do we safely reopen schools?" is not the right question. It places emphasis only on what we need to do *within* schools to make them safe not fully considering impacts of community transmission 1/4
But if community transmission gets too high in the Fall, the schools will have to close regardless. So by making schools reopening and staying open a priority, a better question is "how can we keep community transmission low enough that the schools will not need to close?" 2/4
I propose we need to look at *all* the things that we want to reopen and face the fact that if we truly want to prioritize schools opening and staying open, some other parts of our society might just have to wait. 3/4
What has to wait is debatable: sporting events? bars? seem lower priority than schools. Other things can be included. But point is: keeping *community* transmission low enough to ensure schools continue should be the framing. 4/4
