I've seen 5 or 6 public health officials on TV today telling everyone that one of the 5 key things to do no matter where you live in America is avoid crowded indoor spaces, and just when you think they must be including small classrooms in that nope they magically just meant bars

I've yet to see an explanation from even one public health official as to why it's necessary for Americans to avoid crowded indoor spaces (and to be clear I 100% agree that it's necessary) but that this magically excludes *one* type of crowded indoor space, that being a classroom

I watched a whole CNN town hall tonight on the pandemic and kept waiting for someone to ask this, to me the single most obvious question anyone would ask in view of new government guidance telling everyone to stay out of crowded indoor spaces: why doesn't this include classrooms?

So I ask seriously of anyone reading this: if you've seen an answer to this question—to be clear, *not* your own, but an answer you heard in which a public health official distinguishes between the close contact in bars and classrooms—who was the official and what was the answer?