COVID School Closures

Idk why this is being downvoted. One only needs to look back at the rippling effects that school closures had in 2020-2021…

Wait, I thought we closed schools so kids wouldn’t get COVID.

Said better than I can: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/opinion/parents-school-om...

is there evidence that schools have meaningfully contributed to Covid spread?

Closing the schools is a lockdown measure, the pandemic didn't close the schools

There’s a lot of nuance missing from this. Schools pose minimal risk when appropriate measures are taken. These measures are frequently not taken, a friend of mine just caught Covid from the school she works at last week. Masking and distancing are semi enforced, but the biggest issue is kids are being sent to school sick repeatedly. Parents have relied on and feel entitled to schools as free childcare, sometimes without much choice if their jobs are at risk. Framing the school closings as an ov

Could also be the consequences of schooling during a lockdown.

Not going to school in person isn't fatal.

One hypothesis is this is due to schools closing for the summer holidays. The month long UK lockdown in November last year where schools remained open did not slow the rate of cases as much as the April 2020 and January 2021 lockdowns where schools were closed. Perhaps schools closing is the key to slowing the spread of the virus, especially now that the only significantly unvaccinated part of the population is under-18s.

Could be. Also a good reason to keep the schools closed.