They did it. They closed schools because a pretend metric had been reached.
You can take your child to eat indoors at a restaurant, take them to any number of extracurricular activities indoor and out, take them for a manicure, and certainly take them to a Joe Biden victory street party, but you can't take them to your local public school to learn. The message for months now has been crystalized: School is just not that important in this city.