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Originally Posted by Azure
We closed schools, shuttered learning, but kept bars, restaurants and sporting events open. We even kept doing that a year after pandemic started, and only on the brink of a complete breakdown of the health care system were any restrictions put into place to keep everything from burning down.
End of the day, closing schools was seen as an acceptable option, while keeping other non-essential places open wasn't deemed to be an issue. This is an issue of priorities, and obviously an issue of political stupidity.
We also knew pretty early on that kids weren't really affected. Hell, we knew anyone under 40 with no pre-existing conditions had basically a negligible risk factor.
So I don't think its quite fair to say in July of 2022, oh we learned. Maybe in July of 2020 that would have been correct.
But hey, water under the bridge. Sucks if your kid was set back years in development.
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I don't think that's really true beyond the early stages in the pandemic. After that efforts were made to keep schools open even when everything else was closed and everyone else had mandatory work from home (aside from closing the extra week at Christmas). The one part that was problematic perhaps was quarantine of entire classes if there was a positive case. In 2020/2021 my son was probably at school from home about a third of the year. In 2021/2022 he was only home for the extra week at Christmas.