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@011235813 For what it's worth, Oster did indeed write at least one op-ed in early 2021 where she argued for the federal government to provide funding to upgrade school ventilation systems. Her overall argument was that CDC needed to publish actual achievable risk-based guidelines that would...

@011235813 I agree that lockdowns were necessary at the beginning. But it became apparent after a few months that the effects of COVID on children were not significant enough to justify the huge costs of shutting down schools. That's why the majority of the developed world re-opened schools...

@011235813 Not sure what point you're trying to make with this comment or how it refutes my comment? Obviously eradicating measles would be a good thing, but nobody thinks we should prevent every kid in the country from going to school for two years in order to eradicate measles.

@desperatehokie I feel like they've generally been right though? We know based on today's data that extended school lockdowns were a huge policy failure, resulting in no meaningful reduction in COVID cases/deaths among children while creating significant learning loss relative to peers in other...

@thepaintedbeat The crux of your argument is you deliberately misconstruing what she meant in that article when she stated that children are naturally protected from COVID. She explicitly stated what she meant (I.e. "unvaccinated children have as much risk as a vaccinated grandparent"). Seems...

@thepaintedbeat How was her statement in any way incorrect though? A fully-vaccinated 70-year-old is much more likely to be hospitalized or killed by COVID than an unvaccinated 10-year-old. This is an undisputable fact based on the data. In fact, the US is one of the only developed countries...

@moriarty777 One thing that is pretty apparent about boards though is that they are not just taking the science into account - they are also accounting for things like politics, harm minimization, and how the guidelines will be understood by uneducated laypeople. And that's especially true for...

@thdev Regardless of whether Oster was focusing on the wrong thing or had some sort of alterior motive - it seems pretty clear that she was right, at least when it came to school closures. There is now plenty of evidence that longer school lockdowns led to worse educational and...

@jdthcstl Some people have such a hard time accepting that balancing cost and benefit is a fundamental function of any public policy.