disregardmybabbling:antifaspiderman:pregnantseinfeld:corollarytower:Biden, nearly 80 years old, has
disregardmybabbling:antifaspiderman:pregnantseinfeld:corollarytower:Biden, nearly 80 years old, has a radically higher chance of dying of covid than a 10 year old. Children are much less likely to spread covid between them than adults. These risks to kids have to be balanced against the real harms of remote learning, like reduced access to lunch programs, reduced visibility of child abuse/neglect, weaker socialization of children, and lack of internet access for poor families. Biden taking precautions does not contradict saying schools can reopen with precautions. His assertion obviously assumes mask wearing/immunizing teachers/basic safety protocols. The argument isn’t that schools are entirely unimportant, but that ‘reopening’ has been a disaster every time its been pushed. We all know teachers even older than Biden, and at what fantasy school would they be able to remain a safe distance from students? Are we really going to expect 10 year olds to be in perfect compliance with guidelines? How are these students going to feel knowing they’d made they spread the virus to their older and more vulnerable family members? And those reasons you list are very clearly not the real reason we’ve seen this bipartisan reopening push. Its because these half-assed ‘~shutdowns~’ are an annoyance to the wealthy.ALSO, you are a despicable ‘i-want-to-go-back-to-sleep!’ liberal who was happy enough ignoring our bombing civilians and breaking deportation records from 2008-2016 and only wants to return to the good old days of not having to hear so many worrisome things on the news. And we aren’t on the same ‘side’, because I want all the people you voted for to be hung from the neck until dead.its also just not true that children arent spreading the virus, the study that people are referencing when they say that is months old out of date info and new studies are showing the exact opposite. “believing science” has been turned into a meaningless slogan and if people actually cared about facts they would act according to the most recent and relevant information, not cling to outdated false info just bc it conforms to what they want to believe.Study: Children much more likely to spread COVID-19 to othersCoronavirus: Children can be spreaders — but are often symptomless | DW | 08.01.2021the bare minimum that would need to be done to protect students and teachers, severely limiting class size and proper ventilation, are just plain impossible for public schools which are notorious for their overcrowded classrooms and crumbling infrastructure. most schools had to resort to opening all the windows to get any ventilation bc they cant afford new hvac systems, how are they gonna do that in winter? in places where they have single digit temperatures during the day? how are they gonna limit class size when school systems across the country have had huge layoffs? (not to mention all the teachers retiring bc they dont want to die) we already had overcrowded classrooms and now theres even fewer teachers who will be forced into even more crowded classrooms.its simply not possible to safely reopen schools and they only people insisting it is either dont know what theyre talking about or dont actually care that its not safe.why does everyone LOVE to forget that schools don’t just contain children? that many many many adults, including older ones, disabled ones, immunocompromised ones ALSO work in these dirty-ass broken-ventilation buildings??it is in the 20s (fahrenheit) in NYC right now. the policy to have children inside is that windows MUST be open and the AC HAS TO BE ON!!! IN 25 DEGREE FUCKING WEATHER?!?!? -- source link