General Discussion

Closing schools in the fall of 2020 and thereafter was probably a mistake that did more damage than it prevented. And it did do significant damage to both learning and development. If we want to be the "Believe Science" people, you also have to believe the massive body of evidence already showing the psychological and educational harm caused by COVID-driven school closures in the 2020-2021 academic year and thereafter. Now, you might of course argue that the cost of that damage was worth it given the danger of COVID, but you can't deny that you are making a calculation that accepts a relatively high level of harm on the kids who missed that year of learning. Let's be honest and not jump to assuming that this is a right wing argument. Yes, believe science, but understand that we made choices with scientific data, and you have to now assess some of those choices.

We can believe in science and side mostly with Fauci over this garbage bag Comer and still believe that a different balancing of interests would have been better for the 2020-2021 schoolyear.