The places where bars have been open already have their kids in school. 🤦🏻
The most liberal places with the most heavy handed COVID protocols are the ones that aren’t opening schools.
At this point it is way more about teachers union bargaining and other fuckery than it is about fear of COVID. The supposed concern about community spread is absolutely priceless. Public officials nearly everywhere decided quite some time ago in person learning was worth the risk.
CA has never opened public schools and private ones needed some waivers that involved some pretty severe mental gymnastics.
But in the fall, indoor dining at 25% capacity was happening. Not the only state with this disconnect between risk/reward
I can somewhat go with the teachers on this - if you work at a restaurant and don't want to deal with it, you can quit, and you're not really losing meaningful seniority/tenure, and those jobs are a dime a dozen. Teachers who decide they don't want to go teach for whatever reason, have accrued value they would sacrifice. And a restaurant can generally refuse service to anyone for any reason that isn't related to a protected class, no matter what freaky mask protestors think. The same isn't true for schools.