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"If we knew everything we know today, we would have shut schools down a lot less than we did." We knew enough by mid-2020. If we don't acknowledge this, we can't address the structural factors that led to us *knowingly* implementing this harmful and regressive policy.

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Aaron Ginn

@aginnt

May 7, 2022

Bill Gates admits that shutting down schools was a bad call; it didn’t stop case growth and the education deficit will take years to recover from. Lockdown skeptics were right again and punished for it. twitter.com/backtolife_202

7:54 PM · May 7, 2022

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On schools: I doubt any current official, who was in charge during the pandemic, will acknowledge this. It's going to take new governors/representatives/presidents to acknowledge past mistakes and offer apologies. On everything else, I doubt anyone's ever going to admit error.

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Sad but true.

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It's interesting to note that this was handled very differently in Europe in spite of lockdowns there.

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Yes, absolutely.

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So what you're saying, is if we could see the future, we might do things differently? Huh. And we really didn't know much at all by mid-2020.

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Do you think most of the world outside of coastal North America could see into the future?

“Pocketbook Issue Voter” ReneeHart

@eeners

May 7, 2022

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@ShamikDasgupta1

Even if we didn’t know, putting the kids dead last should NEVER happen again. Policies going forward should be kids-first centered.

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Kids were put behind bars

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It didn't take genius to realize that keeping kids, especially poorer ones, out of school would be devastating. They knew back then and they didn't care.

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Why is he being consulted at all?