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Originally Posted by SAUTO
this is dumb to me.
closing schools put those kids with the higher risk adults ONCE, if they went to school every day they would be putting them at risk every day.
and cuomo also said in that same interview that the best thing he did was shut everything down immediately.
they all talk out both sides of their mouth
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But again, there's little evidence that schools have ever been a hotbed of transmission. It's not the kind of close, intimate contact among extreme carriers that is leading to the outbreaks.
Because the boots on the ground reality is that the adults still have to go out in the world. They work in healthcare or essential industry. They go to grocery stores. Then they spend even MORE time around their children and create that prolonged intimate contact that increases transmission.
I don't see it as counter-intuitive, but even if it is - so what? You don't get to disregard data because it doesn't fit the narrative you'd already contrived.
If there's no evidence that shutting down schools slows the spread, why shut down schools? "Abundance of caution" in the face of all available evidence simply doesn't fly.