COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]
As a progressive, I was saying this back at the beginning of the delta wave. With hindsight, it was completely unnecessary to close schools in March 2020 in Mississippi just because there were literally single-digit cases popping in the state. If there was ever a time to close schools (which would really have been just a delayed opening) in our state, it was right at the beginning of august of 2021, which corresponded with the beginning of school and a peaking delta wave. We really lost teachers at that point in time.
But we didn’t have hindsight in March 2020, so I definitely don’t fault decision-makers for erring on the side of student safety. But those that kept schools closed for the entire 2020-2021 school year made a decision that’s really hard to justify.