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Some harsh on the Tory school reopening plan
Harsh the first:
The truth is, no one wanted to admit there's no safe way to open schools in September. The left made a massive tactical error when it ceded the point by insisting that if we throw enough money and theoretical regulations at the problem without taking into account child behaviour and existing facilities, we could magically transform schools. This was never the case and we've enabled the mass experiment in how COVID-19 affects children by doing so.
One drowning death was so unacceptable that now I have to fill in a novel's worth of paperwork to take 18-year-olds to the park. One shooting death was so unacceptable that zero tolerance policies and armed cops in schools were commonplace for a few years. How many plague deaths before we realize we can't return to business as usual no matter how magic our thoughts and prayers may be?
Every single re-opening plan needs to start with this question of the acceptable number of dead children. If you cannot conceive of an acceptable figure, you shouldn't be reopening schools, period.
Harsh the second:
A math problem.
If you have a class of 15 students and one teacher, and each student has an average of 1.5 parents and .05 siblings, each of whom are in a class with 30 other students, each with an average of 1.5 parents and .05 siblings, and one person in the first class gets COVID, how many people should be quarantined for 14 days?
The truth is, no one wanted to admit there's no safe way to open schools in September. The left made a massive tactical error when it ceded the point by insisting that if we throw enough money and theoretical regulations at the problem without taking into account child behaviour and existing facilities, we could magically transform schools. This was never the case and we've enabled the mass experiment in how COVID-19 affects children by doing so.
One drowning death was so unacceptable that now I have to fill in a novel's worth of paperwork to take 18-year-olds to the park. One shooting death was so unacceptable that zero tolerance policies and armed cops in schools were commonplace for a few years. How many plague deaths before we realize we can't return to business as usual no matter how magic our thoughts and prayers may be?
Every single re-opening plan needs to start with this question of the acceptable number of dead children. If you cannot conceive of an acceptable figure, you shouldn't be reopening schools, period.
Harsh the second:
A math problem.
If you have a class of 15 students and one teacher, and each student has an average of 1.5 parents and .05 siblings, each of whom are in a class with 30 other students, each with an average of 1.5 parents and .05 siblings, and one person in the first class gets COVID, how many people should be quarantined for 14 days?