1/ The question about whether and how we should open schools is real and live uk.news.yahoo.com/seventeen-teac…
How do we balance the educational needs of children against
i. the health needs of teachers,
ii. the health needs of the wider population
iii. the wider economic impact?
2/ Whatever we decide will entail difficult choices which will affect different groups differently, in different ways and over very different timescales. At its starkest, the longer term education of our children vs short term economy?
What a choice, what an awful choice.
3/ But we need to make it, not debating it and trying to ignore it doesn't make the choice go away, it is just made by default, by the virus in fact
4/ The @Nuffbioethics blog has been covering these issues since almost the start of the pandemic nuffieldbioethics.org/blog
5/ and I raised a series of questions back which I said needed full societal engagement with back in May.
nuffieldbioethics.org/blog/why-the-g…
6/ It's never too late to start this debate, but the longer it is left the harder it will be and the more trust will have eroded.
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