Until we have an effective, widely distributed COVID-19 vaccine, it is not time to reopen the schools. To do so is to condemn some of the children, some of the members of their family and some of the teachers and their families to disability or death.
An "effective, widely-distributed" vaccine will be a pipe dream for years. Estimates are that any vaccine within the next few years might be 50% effective. So you are basically condemning every family with children to be stuck homeschooling them for the indefinite future. And if you think remote learning isn't the equivalent of homeschooling, you obviously have never spent time around small children. I really don't understand people like you who think we can just put education, the economy, businesses, and basically our entire lives on hold indefinitely until we meet some obscure definitionless point in the future where things are "okay" again. Why were you okay with people attending school and work every other year? Normal influenza kills 50,000 people a year even WITH an annual vaccine. Are you going to be okay with opening everything back up if we get the coronavirus down to influenza levels? If so, why is that an acceptable level for you? And if not, why didn't you protest ongoing life before COVID-19? Sooner or later, people like you are going to have to accept that life goes on and we can't just shut the entire nation down for the next few years.
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An "effective, widely-distributed" vaccine will be a pipe dream for years. Estimates are that any vaccine within the next few years might be 50% effective. So you are basically condemning every family with children to be stuck homeschooling them for the indefinite future. And if you think remote learning isn't the equivalent of homeschooling, you obviously have never spent time around small children. I really don't understand people like you who think we can just put education, the economy, businesses, and basically our entire lives on hold indefinitely until we meet some obscure definitionless point in the future where things are "okay" again. Why were you okay with people attending school and work every other year? Normal influenza kills 50,000 people a year even WITH an annual vaccine. Are you going to be okay with opening everything back up if we get the coronavirus down to influenza levels? If so, why is that an acceptable level for you? And if not, why didn't you protest ongoing life before COVID-19? Sooner or later, people like you are going to have to accept that life goes on and we can't just shut the entire nation down for the next few years.
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