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It was unplanned because we had public health leadership which decided to ignore decades of pandemic planning and lessons learned, and a president who went along with it.

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This happened universally in the world, you can't blame the US leadership, here in the UK schooling suffered just as badly.

Countries like Singapore, Taiwan, New Zealand, and South Korea suggest that with sufficient planning and political will, there were alternative outcomes available compared to what happened in the US and Europe.

No it has not happened universally around the world, some countries only had the initial shutdown in April 2020 and then the schools were open again.

See here https://covid19.uis.unesco.org/global-monitoring-school-clos... France and Switzerland as an example.

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