Many COVID policy decisions will req decades to assess the net effects, & I have reserved judgment, but there is 1 policy issue that I am sure has been massively bungled and that is the closure of public US schools

Pls read this report [thread]
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-in-children-and-the-role-of-school-settings-in-transmission-first-update_0.pdf
It details the risk of covid to kids
Distribution of cases by age group
viral shedding and asx infection
Risk to teachers?
Ways to mitigate risk
And the harms of closure on kids
And what is the evidence that one gets additional mileage from closure
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