But Trump said yesterday that "kids want to be back at school" ...?!?!
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I think the most frustrating thing with school re-openings is how conservatives are trying to latch onto the handful of European and Asian countries who have successfully re-started school, failing to recognize the plainly obvious thing: All of those countries that have re-opened schools have handled the coronavirus better than the United States. All of those countries that are re-opening their schools have effective universal health care systems that cover all people in the country for little to no out of pocket costs. It ends up driving this political wedge, where "conservatives are for re-opening" and "liberals are for keeping schools closed," when it isn't the case... All of those countries re-opening their schools are far more liberal than the US and that's why they're in a position to re-open. Beyond that, all of these systems are providing necessary funding for teachers and administrators for PPE, something that the US is not close to doing and probably won't be able to on the national level.
It's also politicizing the reality of school re-openings. In a normal environment that you're seeing in countries across Europe or some states in the US (like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, etc), schools can seemingly re-open safely if done responsibly, with government coordination, and care. Health experts really aren't seeing a lot of transmission between kids or from kids to adults, transmission is usually from adults to children, and the places where local transmission is happening where schools are re-opening is probably not caused by schools re-opening, but rather, other industries/sectors re-opening because schools are open ... classic correlation vs. causation, but all of that nuance is being lost in the public debate.
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