Is your statistic adjusted for population and age group?
It doesn’t matter if i cannot quantify the impact of keeping kids out of school. You are the one arguing for dramatic changes to their short childhood. You need to prove that the sacrifice is worth the cost, including all the second and third order effects. I don’t have to prove anything, that’s not how this works.
Thus far, I see no evidence that says we ever should have closed schools and other stuff for kids. We absolutely fucked kids in our myopic obsession with one very specific illness. And one must be willfully blind to not see the damage we caused our kids. Not cool.
> It doesn’t matter if i cannot quantify the impact of keeping kids out of school.
COVID-19 had a quantifiable harmful impact among teachers, and society as a whole, and you are unable to produce any evidence of temporary online learning being “worse” than a million death and tens of millions suffering long term from the illness.
It seems to me then, that you are in the “my feelings don’t care about your facts” camp, so we are done here.
Although I’m genuinely curious about your interest in this. I myself am a parent, and some of my relatives happen to be teachers. Both my kids and my relatives are doing fine. I didn’t mind having my kids around at home for a while either, and they seem to have enjoyed it.
So are you a parent and you couldn’t take care of your kids? A kid bothered for not being able to see your friends for a while? You also seemed to profess an absolute disdain for teacher’s right to protect themselves. Do you truly believe that COVID-19 impact is overblown, even after almost one million people have died in the US so far? Maybe you care more about “the economy” than any of that?
I’m asking because I cannot see your angle in any other way that using some nebulous risk to children to obfuscate some unmentionable personal interest, and, frankly, that would be borderline sociopathic.
It doesn’t matter if i cannot quantify the impact of keeping kids out of school. You are the one arguing for dramatic changes to their short childhood. You need to prove that the sacrifice is worth the cost, including all the second and third order effects. I don’t have to prove anything, that’s not how this works.
Thus far, I see no evidence that says we ever should have closed schools and other stuff for kids. We absolutely fucked kids in our myopic obsession with one very specific illness. And one must be willfully blind to not see the damage we caused our kids. Not cool.