An interesting question is what leads to this kind of reasoning?
Of course, in theory it could be a set of preferences, assigning a very high value to the learning chances of underpriviledged groups compared to the health of mostly elder people. But that is not very likely because in that case this quite extreme set of preferences should manifest itself in other political decisions, too. Which it doesn’t.
I suppose it is a little bit of magical thinking—implicitly thinking the virus can be negotiated with, if the goal of a public policy is worthy enough.
I do hear similar arguments a lot. It’s a hell of a reason to not deal with a pandemic, but that’s where we are.
An interesting question is what leads to this kind of reasoning?
Of course, in theory it could be a set of preferences, assigning a very high value to the learning chances of underpriviledged groups compared to the health of mostly elder people. But that is not very likely because in that case this quite extreme set of preferences should manifest itself in other political decisions, too. Which it doesn’t.
I suppose it is a little bit of magical thinking—implicitly thinking the virus can be negotiated with, if the goal of a public policy is worthy enough.