school districts are closed, some for a day or two of remote warning and some blaming it on the bad weather in the northeast and some are saying with omicron cases spiking, where we were, more than 15 million cases just since december. they are saying we can t fully staff. we have teachers sick, janitors sick. we have to have some remote learning, right? i understand the issues of shortages among workers, but we also need to start considering teachers and staff as essential workers who need to be in school, and so i think we just have to have different policies to account for this. look at the dealt ark surge. in the middle of the tella surge we were able to keep schools open. delta is more virulent than omicron and also at that point we didn t have pediatric vaccinations. we now are able to vaccinate children 5 and older. we know that wearing masks protect the wearer, even if the other people around you are not wearing masks there. real shouldn t be a good reason for schools to be c