What about schools?

[NCDem47]

so, with Trump declaring we need to get things back open to juice the economy, what about kids in schools? Will we see districts in red states send children back? What about parents who have to go to work and kids still at home? Has any of this been addressed?

[elleng]

1. Likely being addressed in states, counties and school districts.

Happily, we and they are on our own.

[BigmanPigman]

2. They'll address it when all the kids' families start dying from their own germs.

Forget about the teachers, like nurses they are just doing their job and are expendable.

[TheFarseer]

3. I have one kid in school

and one in daycare- well neither of them are anymore. This is Republican wet dream stuff here. They have a reason to shut down the government schools, where glorified babysitters teach kids how to be good little communists (their words, not mine). I’m completely serious when I say I hope the schools open again someday. And yes, I understand why they closed the schools. That’s not my point.

Here’s the crazy thing: We didn’t know what else to do so we hired a relative to watch the kids while we’re at work. She named her salary, and since we’re no longer paying for regular daycare and before and after school program-we’re saving money.

[Igel]

4. Don't attribute outsized influence to Trump.

He often talks but what the government does is something different.

In this case the "government" is going to be district or state school boards, depending on how centralized authority is.

In TX, the TEA has declared that such things are up to the district. There are counties with positive tests in the score, counties with positive counts lower than the death counts in other districts. Hell, there are probably counties in TX with populations lower than some states' positive test counts (or maybe even death tolls). In those counties "social distance" means keeping at least 3 miles between you and the nearest person.

(Okay, I had to check. Yeah, we have counties with fewer residents than New York has had COVID deaths, and one with fewer than NJ's death toll.)