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LordoftheMorons posted...

and it's insane that as a society we didn't prioritize keeping schools open as much as possible

As a teacher, I agree that virtual learning is no substitute for in-person learning. This is especially true in areas where we just don't have the infrastructure in place for virtual learning (Something we should be working on, but of course aren't). Many of my students barely had basic internet. I barely had basic-internet at home. Which meant my interaction with students was limited when I had to work from home, and my kids interaction with their teachers was limited as well. But the simple fact is we were in a pandemic. Containing the spread as best we could was our best option. Reopening schools only creates risk for students, students families, and staff. If you want to open schools as much as possible, you had to get things done ahead of time. Which we didn't. We did too little, too late. Especially in a country where roughly half the population refuse to take simple precautions such as wearing a mask. Saying "Oh, there was little spread' is discounting the spread there was. Public health should be a high priority. Maybe if we had a better equipped healthcare system, maybe if we had people who took the virus seriously, maybe if we had better infrastructure in place, we would've come off better than we did. But we aren't going to do that, so we did the only thing we could do.