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& #39;t done it. 1/

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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">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/1...

3) Carroll argues that we can use money to solve the economic pain of closing restaurants, bars, etc. What we can& #39;t do is write a check to fix the educational inequalities that are widening as a result of school closing. It& #39;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.