One of the worst things that happened the last two years is this myopic focus on exactly one thing with zero regard to other competing problems. Everything has costs. Keeping kids out of school for a year plus has costs. I am fairly certain history will show that the costs to children vastly outweigh the marginal benefits gained from closing schools to "reduce the spread".

It turns out there are other problems in the world than just a myopic fixation to covid... the inability for "the experts" to balance covid against the rest of human existence is one of the greatest fuckups of our time.

Even in other OECD nations, they kept kids in school and mostly unmasked to facilitate learning.

- Italy [0] - Germany [1] - Ireland [2] - Spain [3]

I could go on and on but everyone who managed to travel globally during 2021 knows this is completely untrue.

[0] https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-unveils-covid-green-...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-angela-merkel-coronavir...

[2] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/movie-review/movie-review-...

[3] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/21/spai-j21.html

> They are basically a tunnel for spreading from one family to another

This wasn't and generally hasn't been the case for children under 12 as the aforementioned research points out. Spread generally goes from adults to each-other and to children and rarely in the other direction. It was a very poor rationale for closing schools, especially elementary schools. These kids have missed out on critical milestones in social and psychological development that far outweigh any known risk they face from COVID.