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I'm not sure you understand how bad the coronavirus situation is here. People's kids aren't going to be able to go to school in person this fall. Short of the outbreak of WW3 I can't imagine the pandemic not being the top issue.

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That's mostly due to teaching unions. The risk to children from Corona virus is vanishingly small.

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-ris...

Viruses spread. It’s not just the children we’re worried about.

Ask Israel how opening schools worked for them.

There's a curiously large amount of people that just don't understand the second order effects.

At this point people understand what they want to understand. I don’t know how to fix that.

Ask Sweden. Relatively few teachers have caught COVID there. Taxi drivers have a five times higher risk than teachers. Also, it depends on the age of the pupils.

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