What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later

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9. So, when I go to work today

I will take care of people who have had Covid and who are still paying a very high price. Godamn, for the wonderful examples of humanity during a global pandemic—and there were, there is a shithead who killed their memaw or their uncle with a double lung transplant. There are people right now on a transplant waiting list because their kidneys didn’t recover. There are people struggling to learn to live with necrotic digits. They are people who will never be able to work again.

When we estimate the human cost of survival, it’s very easy to leave out the rest of the story. The shutdowns in America didn’t work because there was never full compliance. Ever.