Good lord this harrassing-women-scientists doofus is awful. Nobody is anti-school (except kids, sometimes, who Eli doesn't actually care about). There is good reason to advocate for not having places of >30 people in a room congregating during a spike in the pandemic
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https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1476212807670587396
I am not anti school. I DO think that school has many unaddressed PREPANDEMIC stressors that the pandemic has worsened, but I also am a huge geek and did >20 years of the damn thing, as did all the PhDs he mocks and derides.
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Schools can safely be closed during periods of high transmission, and when they are open they need to be **safer and less stressful to kids**.
Covid safe would mean ventilation, smaller classes, different ways of learning, outdoor activities, and access to virtual tech.
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Covid safe would mean ventilation, smaller classes, different ways of learning, outdoor activities, and access to virtual tech.
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Less stressful would mean actually caring about bullying and exclusion/minoritization, decreasing academic burden especially during times of distress, a mental health and safety curriculum, and more free effing time to play and have fun and explore.
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So no, @aetiology of @EpiEllie are not anti-school. They love school as do all of us geeks. they just know biology, epidemiology and (in my case) children's mental health really well too, and we care about all the future kids and their future school.
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