Just overheard a conversation from a teacher on school closings during the pandemic

[Algernon Moncrieff]

94. It was a very tough call

Those first two waves of Covid were unusually lethal, and the schools had a horrible set of options. My daughter was in high school and it definitely had bad impacts. On balance, I'm glad she stayed home.

I think part of why we are where we are today is anger over how Covid was handled. If we did it again, I think a majority of Americans (not necessarily a majority of DUers) would have opted to keep school and businesses open and let it play out -- even if that had cost another million lives and left millions more with some form of long Covid (not unlikely) and broken the health care system in some areas (likely).