Keeping the pupils from returning to school is not going to stop them from being infected. Picture: iStock/ Smolaw11
“To be, or not to be, that is the question,” is Hamlet’s soliloquy in the Shakespeare classic.
Perhaps the most quoted of all Shakespeare’s works even by many who never read a single of his works.
I think it’s an apt phrasing for the decision “to reopen, or not to reopen”.
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