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I'm on the side of extra precautions, and not all schools can open. But this headline? (Culled from an AP report). All the outrage at school openings? Read the fine print. None of the four teachers caught COVID at school. It was church. It was football practice over the summer.
The info ecology has switched from underplaying the threat to scaremongering—human nature plus business incentives. It's easy to laugh at QAnon folks who fear widespread cult kidnappings of children but alarmism directed at children is eternal. Not limited to any political group.
Many people are about to flood my mentions about how schools are irredeemably unsafe, cannot be opened till this is over. It's become difficult to have an evidence-based conversation about this but we must try because children are also being gravely harmed by closed schools.
This disease has startling age specific differences. Yet, we're opening up higher education despite evidence young adults can drive spread (efficient transmission but not sick enough to slow down) but K-6 remains locked down even in places with low community prevalence. Baffling.
