UN Officials Cite Study That Finds Lockdowns, School Closures KILLING More Children Than COVID

Ricter said:
Well, per the article it appears that it is not the school closures causing the harm so much as the lack of access to primary healthcare and nutritional services.
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So you believe that school closures - conversion to online learning are a good thing for children and are warranted given the Covid crisis?

I'm trying to understand your position.
 
Tsing Tao said:
So you believe that school closures - conversion to online learning are a good thing for children and are warranted given the Covid crisis?

I'm trying to understand your position.
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I believe we have an underlying problem, of greater scope, when lack of medical care and nutrition are the reasons our kids suffer when they don't go to school.
 
Ricter said:
I believe we have an underlying problem, of greater scope, when lack of medical care and nutrition are the reasons our kids suffer when they don't go to school.
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I don't argue that. Which is easier to fix? The underlying problem or to send them back to school until we can fix it?

Or perhaps you believe they should stay home because of the virus while we work to fix it?
 
Tsing Tao said:
I don't argue that. Which is easier to fix? The underlying problem or to send them back to school until we can fix it?

Or perhaps you believe they should stay home because of the virus while we work to fix it?
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I say fix the underlying problem. We always seem to have a reason to avoid doing so. Working people and especially parents have been having a harder time taking care of themselves much less their children for some 40 years now.

For every hundred hacking at the branches there is but one chopping at the root (radix, radical).
 
Ricter said:
I say fix the underlying problem. We always seem to have a reason to avoid doing so. Working people and especially parents have been having a harder time taking care of themselves much less their children for some 40 years now.

For every hundred hacking at the branches there is but one chopping at the root (radix, radical).
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I agree. We should fix the underlying problem. The question is whether we should keep kids out of school because of Covid or whether we should allow them to go to school and get the benefits until we are able to fix the problem. And lets not forget the working parents who now have to figure out daycare and someone to watch their kids because they won't be in school.

Unless you think the problem is an easy fix.
 
Tsing Tao said:
I agree. We should fix the underlying problem. The question is whether we should keep kids out of school because of Covid or whether we should allow them to go to school and get the benefits until we are able to fix the problem.

Unless you think the problem is an easy fix.
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Continuing the disaster relief program is an easy way to help kids retain access to healthcare and food. We'll have a vaccine in the near future.
 
Ricter said:
Continuing the disaster relief program is an easy way to help kids retain access to healthcare and food. We'll have a vaccine in the near future.
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Ok, so you support them staying home. On what grounds, may I ask? The risk? Because I thought we already agreed the risk was overstated. I believe you said "people are poor judges of risk" and that it "didn't matter what the data said" - which is true for the general populace. But you understand the data.
 
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