[legitster]

> 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.

[p0pcult]

Protecting your family while letting the society in which it exists rot is not protecting your family.

[ehvatum]

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.