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New York children are going back only part time in September - but despite coronavirus fatigue, we shouldn’t be blaming teachers

One of the strangest things about the past four months has been the number and abruptness of the reversals we’ve endured.

Approximately a hundred years ago, when it appeared, for a minute, that Boris Johnson’s life was in peril, it was impossible not to feel bad for him (the moment passed). In New York the governor, Andrew Cuomo, berated in the early days of the outbreak for his slowness to act, went through a period of being widely lauded as a hero, before sliding back to his present state of tepid public approval, as a guy who spends all day bickering with the mayor and mishandling popular protests.

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