One of the principle fallacies of the coronavirus is a hyper-focus on one bad outcome, w/out the recognition that, during a pandemic, there are no options that produce good outcomes, only options that produce less bad ones. https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1288839163069046785

I genuinely feel for parents & kids in this situation. It's enormously taxing on parents & not developmentally normal for kids. But if you put kids back in school, that's not going to be developmentally normal either. The pandemic makes this impossible.

Kids having to refrain from touching other kids is not normal. Kids learning they could put their teacher, their parents, their grandparents in danger is not normal. Kids seeing other kids regularly pulled out of school b/c of disease is not normal.

Nothing will be normal for children in this country until this virus is under control. This is true whether school is in session or online. They will be deprived of essential contact. They will feel fear. They will feel uncertainty. They will even feel stigmatization.

It's really just matter of determining what the least bad option is, both in terms of kids' development & public health, & the economy. And even the least bad options do not look great.

meant to say *the coronavirus era. . . not just the coronavirus, which can't commit a fallacy