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by rbreaves 1256 days ago
The pandemic was the disastrous part and yes measures were taken in response to it that no one liked doing, but how we lay blame on people trying to protect themselves, and their family.. I think is shortsighted. More people died in most countries from it than what they died in the last World War, and maybe 2.

We don't go around constantly blaming the people and decisions that led up to the World Wars, it happened and we accept it and move on from it. Also sending kids into private schools in the US I think is part of the problem - there are many proponents that'd love all public schools to go under and to teach their brand of "science" and "history" to their students while knowing they are not providing an actual education. That is not all private schools, but many do have an agenda and little to no oversight in the US.
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legitster 1256 days ago
> how we lay blame on people trying to protect themselves, and their family.. I think is shortsighted

Sure, but does ensuring my child has a good education not part of protecting my family? I faced about a 0.5% chance of being critically harmed by Covid versus an unknown chance that my child would permanently be affected by school closures. That's not so cut and dry a choice as people make it.

And we can find all sorts of reasons to knock private education, but they actually stayed open and provided education.

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p0pcult 1256 days ago
Protecting your family while letting the society in which it exists rot is not protecting your family.
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ehvatum 1256 days ago
It is sometimes better to step out of the way of a barreling misguided consensus that will soon enough dash itself to pieces.

No amount of argument or action could alter Randy Weingartner’s strategy. She was going to close schools nationwide and mischaracterize any criticism of her strategy as anti-science in order to stigmatize her opponents and increase her own person power, until the political environment shifted and she had to be less lazy.

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kodyo 1256 days ago
We can blame them if it was obviously wrong, and it was obviously wrong at the time.

The numbers showed very early on that kids and healthy adults weren’t all that susceptible to COVID.

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