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Many excellent pieces here. The @CNNOpinion page is filled with great writers and also, sometimes, me. In my work this week I wrote about prioritizing schools over bars and restaurants, which sounds obvious, except we in the US haven't done it. 1/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/opinions/covid-19-keep-schools-open-close-bars-perry/index.html https://twitter.com/richny/status/1330523958488281104
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/opinions/covid-19-keep-schools-open-close-bars-perry/index.html https://twitter.com/richny/status/1330523958488281104
2) There were a bunch of other pieces making similar arguments (as NY schools shut down again, NY media started publishing such pieces). This was I thought the best one, by @aaronecarroll - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/opinion/schools-closing-covid.html
3) Carroll argues that we can use money to solve the economic pain of closing restaurants, bars, etc. What we can't do is write a check to fix the educational inequalities that are widening as a result of school closing. It's a good way to frame the argument.
4) I got ... a lot ... of hate mail and hate tweets saying that I was trying to murder teachers. The goal is to create the community conditions in which schools are safe by closing everything else.
