I spend too much time reading about how other countries are handling children during COVID. This is Holland. They also don't wear masks. 
The rules on distancing matter a lot because when we're lucky enough to have in-person school, it's on a part-time schedule because kids allegedly need to distance (and, additionally, all the kids in NY wear masks all the time including recess). No one else is doing this.
In Germany, grade school kids in some regions don't wear masks at all & in other areas kids wear them only in common spaces, not in classrooms. Again, my 4yo wears a mask all day, including recess, & still doesn't get to have full-time schooling. It's bullshit. This is bullshit.
I've tweeted before about how our masking rules are FAR tighter than other countries. FINE. Fine, let's go with these stupid masking rules for little children who largely don't pass this virus. OK. But open schools full-time. No one else is doing this.
https://twitter.com/karol/status/1296636865798430722
No other country has decided to have children do social distancing AND mask wearing AND part-time school AND also close schools whenever there's a tiny spike in cases. Only American cities have decided to design the most obvious failure of a system. Only us.
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