Schools is fraught with complex issues I wouldn't dare offer an opinion except they must be safe for education workers, parents, students and wider community. With asymptomatic testing and highly aggressive contact and trace.

But when they should be open? No one seems to agree? https://twitter.com/pearsonbound/status/1350559366689271810

I would normally be consistent with whatever scientists and doctors say, but they don't seem to have a consensus opinion

It looks like they are duking it out. Championing different models and assumptions.

I'm confused as hell about it

Can't imagine how confused parents must be

But as Fisman was noting, the Atlantic provinces have a model that is working.

And that seems to be highly aggressive contact and trace and isolate in schools.

The timelines of their pandemic suggests schools are the epicenter of Covid19 community spread.

So if you open schools, and aggressively target schools with contact and trace and isolate, you'll have low to zero community spread.

That's one theory that seems pretty strong.

No one can argue it's working in the Atlantic provinces.

BUT we're not the Atlantic provinces...

Ontario has large industrial and manufacturing centers the Atlantic provinces don't.

We have massive workplace environments they don't.

So just adopting the Atlantic model, and placing all our eggs in the schools basket...would that really stop community spread?

Hmm.

So it's just not that simple.

In a way, they got lucky!

They didn't know that strategy would work. No one knew anything at the beginning.

We need an Ontario solution that works for Ontario.

We're not Nova Scotia.

And we can't invent ourselves into Nova Scotia.

Sadly.

So that's what I currently think about that!

In other words, not a clue!

What do you think?

(Fin)