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  1. frostycakes
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    I'd imagine it's trying to thread the needle of keeping people healthy while still providing educational options (and childcare too, let's be honest) for people like the kids of essential workers...

    I'd imagine it's trying to thread the needle of keeping people healthy while still providing educational options (and childcare too, let's be honest) for people like the kids of essential workers who haven't been able to work from home during this.

    Seeing my co-workers and team who have kids here in the grocery store trying to juggle keeping enough hours at work with their kids doing online school is equal parts heartbreaking and frustrating. I know a few of them are in the boat where the usual person they lean on for childcare is their own elderly parents, which aren't an option given our constant exposure to thousands of people daily in the store.

    If (I'm assuming you're in the US as well for this, if I'm not then I share in your bewilderment) we had a government with an effective pandemic response that kept people home and solvent and hopefully employed at the end of all this, then it'd be a no brainier to stay locked down. Given our lackluster federal response, and given the limited tools and budget a single school district has, it's not surprising that they've gone down this middle route, unfortunately.

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    Pistos
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    Sorry (and this could just be me), but it's not clear to me what problem you're pointing out. The referents of the determiners you've employed are unclear.

    What are these people thinking? Do they believe that our particular geographic area is protected by magic fairy dust?

    Sorry (and this could just be me), but it's not clear to me what problem you're pointing out. The referents of the determiners you've employed are unclear.

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      1. Pistos
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        I quite agree [that schools should be closed in any region that is trying to reduce COVID]. At the same time, it's probably a hard decision between closing schools and having parents need to deal...

        I quite agree [that schools should be closed in any region that is trying to reduce COVID]. At the same time, it's probably a hard decision between closing schools and having parents need to deal with having kids at home (arranging babysitting, trying to work from home while kids are also home, or both). It's kind of a lose-lose situation. That said, closing schools is probably the less-bad choice of the two.