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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
It's great he's acknowledging an error but this was both predictable and widely predicted. If you didn't recognize that keeping kids out of school for 3-18 months (depending on jurisdiction) might cause a few public health problems, may need to reevaluate a lot of your premises.
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Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
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SCHOOLS: "Dr. Carlos del Rio, interim dean at Emory, said public health experts didn’t foresee the effect of learning loss/isolationism on students. That impact could be the most long-lasting, UCSF professor Dr. Mark Smith said...We made a mistake with schools,” del Rio said. “I… Show more
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@BlueyAnon
The inexcusable part culminated at the beginning of 2021. THAT is when the rubber met the road and any "EFFORT" at reopening schools was a healthy debate, but any effort NOT TO was catastrophically negligent and extremely destructive.
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Geoff Fitz
@bellinghamfitz
I mean no one knew what the impact of just going on with daily life and telling no one about COVID at all either. A billion dead? Who knows? What would the impact of 10 million American orphans look like?
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Jean
@queens_parents
If an “expert” didn’t foresee the effects that school closures and long term mandated masking would have on children, they were likely looking at polls and not the data.
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Janine Curran
@janinereturns
The data was available summer 2020. That’s why so most European countries opened up. Sadly it became political and toxic in the US and the kids paid the price. This is honestly why so many of us moms started following what DeSantis was doing.
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How Ron DeSantis gained a fan base among some suburban women far from Florida cnn.it/44p83eZ
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J.R. Jewing
@danrichman
I live in one of the “bluest” counties in FL and they LOUDLY protested school reopenings. Caskets in the streets, the whole thing. Weird how within a few months, not a peep.
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