A little more than two years after the pandemic first came to America, new data confirm the mass school closures caused serious harm to young students, writes BecketAdams. Critics of the pandemic school closures have now been vindicated.
"There’s certainly no such thing as zero risk in anything we do, and that is certainly the case during a pandemic," Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings program at Harvard’s school of public health, said in a 2020 paper arguing in favor of school reopenings.
His and similar recommendations were rebuffed quickly by lockdown enthusiasts and teachers’ unions alike, both of whom characterized the effort to re-open schools as dangerous and even lethal.
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