[Mick]

Mick, since you've made up your mind, let me know exactly how many teachers you're okay killing.  We can work backwards from there to figure out how many to bring back to the schools.  Assuming about a 1% IFR (teachers skew older than the general population): https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/..._t1s_002.a ), for every 1 teacher you're okay killing, we can bring back 100 times the number who will get infected.  How many will get infected?  No one knows!  What a fun experiment to play on teachers!  But it's worth it for the sake of the children.

Teachers did not sign up for this job to die or risk adverse health consequences.  Asking them do so is heartless and cruel.  If it's such a great idea to reopen, Mick, why is no major school district in California doing so?  Why are nearly all the leaders pushing for a full reopening Republicans who have mismanaged the pandemic from day one?  These things are not a coincidence.  People more knowledgeable on this issue than you or I have looked at the evidence and decided that the smartest thing is to close the schools for now.  That should be enough to decide the issue.  Anyone who thinks they are smarter than all the school boards and the experts they have consulted with should probably stop and rethink their position.

Finally, when you've lost Dave Grohl, I think it's time to concede: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...rs/614422/

I addressed every single one of your points.  You didn't address a single one of mine.  

Here's a question for you.  How many kids do you have?  I'll answer your riposte question in advance.  My mother, mother-in-law and wife were teachers.

[Mick]

Mick, since you've made up your mind, let me know exactly how many teachers you're okay killing.  We can work backwards from there to figure out how many to bring back to the schools.  Assuming about a 1% IFR (teachers skew older than the general population): https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/..._t1s_002.a ), for every 1 teacher you're okay killing, we can bring back 100 times the number who will get infected.  How many will get infected?  No one knows!  What a fun experiment to play on teachers!  But it's worth it for the sake of the children.

Teachers did not sign up for this job to die or risk adverse health consequences.  Asking them do so is heartless and cruel.  If it's such a great idea to reopen, Mick, why is no major school district in California doing so?  Why are nearly all the leaders pushing for a full reopening Republicans who have mismanaged the pandemic from day one?  These things are not a coincidence.  People more knowledgeable on this issue than you or I have looked at the evidence and decided that the smartest thing is to close the schools for now.  That should be enough to decide the issue.  Anyone who thinks they are smarter than all the school boards and the experts they have consulted with should probably stop and rethink their position.

Finally, when you've lost Dave Grohl, I think it's time to concede: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...rs/614422/

I addressed every single one of your points.  You didn't address a single one of mine.  

Here's a question for you.  How many kids do you have?  I'll answer your riposte question in advance.  My mother, mother-in-law and wife were teachers.