28 Mar '24 03:45>2 edits
@no1marauder saidWithout data, you're just another person with an opinion...
No, I obviously don't agree that reopening schools for in-person learning in areas with existing high levels of COVID19 in the general population would have had no effect on transmission rates. It's quite obviously counterintuitive and the evidence (limited as it is as most local leaders weren't willing to adopt such a murderous, insane policy) is to the contrary. Even the studies you referenced don't make such an outlandish claim.
Nature Medicine: "SARS-CoV-2 incidence rates were not statistically different in counties with in-person learning versus remote school modes in most regions of the United States."
PNAS: "...keeping lower-secondary schools open had minor consequences for the overall transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in society."
BMJ: "Most studies of school reopening reported that school reopening, with extensive infection prevention and control measures in place and when the community infection levels were low, did not increase community transmission of SARS-CoV-2."
You take what experts in the field have written and flip it to the negative and and add qualifiers, then say you disagree? This is why these debates never go anywhere, you read all these scientific studies and conclude the opposite because it's "counterintuitive" to you. You continue to cling to dogma, and downvote posts you are arguing with like a child.