These discussions are important. It's okay for us, as a society, to make mistakes. Especially if the mistakes are made in an attempt to do "the right thing", whatever that is.
We can only make the decisions we make with the information we have available in the moment, but it is important, later, to be honest with ourselves about the outcomes of the decisions we made and try to learn from them to improve decision making next time.
We shouldn't need to be defensive about this or that, we should follow the data, wherever it leads.
If it turns out the risk from spreading COVID wasn't worth the social and economic damage of lockdowns, that's an important data point to consider when making these kinds of decisions again.
Not sure how this is relevant to an article about school closures, which were successful in preventing perhaps 0.00001% of children from eventually becoming infected with COVID.
> something that is utterly absent from “An Abundance of Caution”—any palpable recognition of where all the caution was coming from.
This sums it up. No recognition of there being adults in schools, of there being adults in the homes these children come back to, of Sweden’s substantially higher excess deaths, or of the deaths happening at the same time as the school closures.
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We can only make the decisions we make with the information we have available in the moment, but it is important, later, to be honest with ourselves about the outcomes of the decisions we made and try to learn from them to improve decision making next time.
We shouldn't need to be defensive about this or that, we should follow the data, wherever it leads.
If it turns out the risk from spreading COVID wasn't worth the social and economic damage of lockdowns, that's an important data point to consider when making these kinds of decisions again.
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/research-links-covid-poo...
Oh, wait... repeat covid infections are much worse and even damage T cells similar to HIV.
Plus 1 in 5 covid infections result in long covid.
This sums it up. No recognition of there being adults in schools, of there being adults in the homes these children come back to, of Sweden’s substantially higher excess deaths, or of the deaths happening at the same time as the school closures.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
So roughly 14,000 years of life saved in Norway, even if they ended up dying within 2 years anyway.