Re-opening Schools in the era of COVID

Show me some other state. Surely there must be some state with an empirical study that you can show me where teachers get sick more than other occupations.

 

You don't need to be in any of those places 30-40 hours a week.

 

So it should be easy for you to show us data that proves teachers acquire COVID faster than most professions, right?

 

I don't need to show that, it's a red herring. Most kids have been home schooling. That's been painful, yes, but doable, and will be easier the next time the need arises. And remember, we're talking about a need that lasts only so long as we're waiting on a vaccination. And that process has apparently improved, too.

 

You could use a state like Florida where school has been in session - in person - since August of last year. Surely if this was true we'd not be able to be in session so long as all the teachers would be incapacitated.

Oh, I'm sure GWB has dozens of articles where he can show schools had to temporarily close because of an outbreak, but that's not the same as saying adults get infected far more in schools than other locales.

Fact is that all you have is an assumption. No data to support what is a theory.

 

Spending five minutes in the garden area selecting a splitting maul, in the proximity of an infected person, vs. spending six hours there same conditions, vs. picking the maul online and having it delivered. Hmm, these are tough.

 

Unfortunately your analogy - while logically sound - takes many things for granted. Such as transmission rate. Such as mask usage. And so on.

Since it is so "obvious", why is there no data showing that adults overwhelmingly get COVID from schools?

 

I submit we keep those constant for all scenarios.

 

Ok, that's not a problem for a hypothesis - one has to make some assumptions. The problem is when your (not you per se, but whomever) hypothesis ends up driving policy. In this case, shutting schools so students cannot go to school and learn.

It's not like the decision means kids have to drink skim milk instead of whole milk. There is a serious impact to kids and we're basing it on a hypothesis that not only isn't proven or relies on anecdotal thought, but one that seems less and less true every day.

 

True.