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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.