I find articles like these so deeply frustrating: nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/… So much parsing and dancing around the point that schools are safe and we should open them everywhere.
That evidence has been with us for months. And it’s not just when community spread is moderate or low. Look at Europe when they had high spread and yet schools saw few cases—even without these mitigation strategies! 
The very next paragraph (which also jumps from elementary to high school without pointing out these are very different) muddles this point. Yes, when transmission goes up in communities, it goes up in schools. But it’s still super low. Say it.
The idea that deep blue city school districts would have listened to the Trump administration’s guidelines to reopen schools is fantasy.
This needs context. Public schools in our big cities did not open. Private schools in cities did open, public schools in suburbs & smaller cities opened. Teachers unions kept big city publics closed & hurt the most vulnerable. Democrats who run these cities let it happen. Say it.
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