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Unfortunately, it was terribly ineffective for that purpose. We closed them to reduce peak hospital admissions in the older population.

Also, we opened up the schools while COVID still was, and is, going on.

We can argue about the pros and cons of doing that, but pretending COVID is over is just sticking our heads in the sand.

We closed them because everybody else was closing them. Anything else is just post-hoc bullshit.

In case you didn't notice, COVID is still making the rounds but kids are at school. Kids were at school, at least in Canada and the US, during the massive surge at the beginning of 2022. There are more than 93M reported cases.

I'm amazed at the level of ignorance about a disease that has killed more than a million people in the US and Canada alone; thousands dead unnecessarily because this ignorance.

Two weeks to flatten the curve.

Kids are far from the only humans in a school building.