"The elections pundit Nate Silver, veering out of his lane of expertise in multiple directions at once, tweeted that the previous program of school closures had been more harmful than the invasion of Iraq.": My, he really has gone full pundit, hasn't he? I've never paid much attention to him, but he used to seem reasonable enough.
One thing I've yet to see anyone acknowledge about all this is that online schooling is actually a boon for some children. As a child, I would have preferred it, because the thing I hated most about school was dealing with other children - not all of them, but some of them. Plus, no time wasted on "physical education", which at the schools to which I was sent was just a lousy form of recess.
You're very right that "the pandemic isn't something to opt out of. It's something to keep trying to mitigate". It's interesting and depressing to see many public officials more or less giving up, even in relatively civilized jurisdictions. It's a different kind of "great resignation" that seems to be emerging from the pandemic.
"The elections pundit Nate Silver, veering out of his lane of expertise in multiple directions at once, tweeted that the previous program of school closures had been more harmful than the invasion of Iraq.": My, he really has gone full pundit, hasn't he? I've never paid much attention to him, but he used to seem reasonable enough.
One thing I've yet to see anyone acknowledge about all this is that online schooling is actually a boon for some children. As a child, I would have preferred it, because the thing I hated most about school was dealing with other children - not all of them, but some of them. Plus, no time wasted on "physical education", which at the schools to which I was sent was just a lousy form of recess.
You're very right that "the pandemic isn't something to opt out of. It's something to keep trying to mitigate". It's interesting and depressing to see many public officials more or less giving up, even in relatively civilized jurisdictions. It's a different kind of "great resignation" that seems to be emerging from the pandemic.