Bill Gates: Schools should re-open

[CitizenBBN]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/bill-gates-says-schools-should-reopen-despite-covid-19

Hard to get a less pro-Trump guy than Gates, so I think we can exclude politics from this one. And as head of the Gates Foundation he's probably more tied to the real research going on than about anyone not at NIH and CDC or a pharma company, and he's not tied to just the medical side so he sees the bigger picture.

There are real costs to lockdowns and shutdowns etc. Sure it slows the spread of the virus, but it also leads to more cases of abuse, unreported and untreated medical problems, mental anguish and illness, suicide, etc.

These kids didn't learn a dang thing the last part of this past year, and I seriously doubt they will this entire school year. It's not like we're so far ahead in education that we can take a victory lap.

[KSRBEvans]

IMHO whether schools reopen has more to do with the strength of the teachers unions.

[KeithKSR]

IMHO whether schools reopen has more to do with the strength of the teachers unions.

As a teacher those teachers balking at returning to school make our profession look bad. A lot of low wage earners have worked throughout the pandemic at the big box stores where they have come into contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. Balking at spending a day with a small handful of students who have extremely low transmission rates make them look like elitists.

[VirginiaCat]

As a teacher those teachers balking at returning to school make our profession look bad. A lot of low wage earners have worked throughout the pandemic at the big box stores where they have come into contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. Balking at spending a day with a small handful of students who have extremely low transmission rates make them look like elitists.


it is about exerting control over the election. Not real fear. From what I understand, there is not one case worldwide of a student passing the virus to a teacher.

[LakeCat]

it is about exerting control over the election. Not real fear. From what I understand, there is not one case worldwide of a student passing the virus to a teacher.

+1,000,000

[Doc]

As a teacher those teachers balking at returning to school make our profession look bad. A lot of low wage earners have worked throughout the pandemic at the big box stores where they have come into contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of people each day. Balking at spending a day with a small handful of students who have extremely low transmission rates make them look like elitists.

no more than using this pandemic as a platform to promote Universal health care (including for illegals), defunding the police, wealth taxes and banning charter schools.

[KeithKSR]

it is about exerting control over the election. Not real fear. From what I understand, there is not one case worldwide of a student passing the virus to a teacher.

I suspect control of the election is why big tech fights against hydroxychloroquine so hard, given there are an abundant number of studies that have said it is effective if used early when people first become symptomatic.