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Originally Posted by GGG
The other thing to note is that in Alberta after the first closure Alberta schools weren’t closed to prevent the spread of Covid. They were closed because they ran out of teachers and students. The prevelance in the community made school not practical.
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Yeah, it's weird how everyone focuses on schools so much, at least from a Canadian perspective. Here in BC, schools were closed for April and May in 2020, and then after that they were closed for a grand total of 3 days when the 2021-22 Christmas Break was extended slightly. I guess it makes for an emotional appeal, but there really wasn't a ton of educational disruption here.
And related to what you're saying, the counterfactual to the few measures they did take wasn't everything as normal; there still would have been disruption, but it'd have been due to more widespread infections in schools and people self-limiting what they do (i.e. fewer kids would show up with fewer measures in place, a good portion of the population would have worn masks anyway, etc.).