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In reply to the discussion: Give it a rest Bill Maher. You, and others keep saying that schools shouldn't have been closed [View all]Warpy
(111,581 posts)Kids aren't the only ones to consider. There are teachers, library staff, office staff, lunchroom staff, custodians, and that's just of f the top of my head. Kids were unlikely to get bad cases. Not so everybody else in the building.
Any harm is likely to be temporary, kids are adaptable and will adapt back to being in school after being at home.
Staying home and masking when we went out was a reasonable response to a disease we had no immunity to and whish was killing some people, no way to predict who'd live or die.
Perhaps when the next bug hits us we'll have perfected AI Robo Teachers and automated all the other school jobs and the little darlings can go to school and cough and sneeze all the waynt. This time, it was better to shut the schools.