The cognitive error that leads many people to not push hard enough on schools is that they still do not fully appreciate the harms.

They struggle to consider those harms, I suspect because they do not experience them in their lives.

Very soon the harm will no longer be hidden

This is the root error behind half-hearted pushes to reopen schools.

Failure to imagine how restrictions will impact people who do not have your resources is a core failure of the pandemic

When the harms are no longer hidden, the public sentiment will shift, and my Iraq war analogy will be complete

Both were a catastrophic error, and public sentiment shifted over time