Missing the Obvious on COVID
The authorities did not close the New York City public schools during the 1918/19 pandemic because they thought it better to have the children in a controlled environment. This is the sort of consideration of alternatives seriously lacking in our handling of COVID-19. Two years in a row, cases have spiked in the South during the summer after relatively mild springs and before dropping off in the early fall. Last year cases only really started to rise in the Midwest in Septemb