Humans could have come together and agreed we would move entirely to clean sources of power and be 80% of the way there.
That clearly hasn't happened either.
Surely you've been in a meeting room with more than about 5 people? All of those people have conflicting viewpoints, theories about the situation, risk analysis and so on.
Can you imagine being a board member who spent 30% of a school budget on remote learning only to have in-class instruction all year?
Hindsight is 20/20. School budgets are generally tight, their IT teams have less-than-desired-bandwidth, and they've already had to handle costs and challenges with the current situation such as getting mobile hotspots and video conferencing solutions up. Remember that not all kids have laptops or internet at home - and school IT gets to handle that situation too.
Especially when predicting failure was inevitable after somebody has clearly failed.
Citing a list of challenges (and renewable energy and imagination) is not a proof that failure couldn't have been avoided, it's a version of the "it's all so complicated, we can't say anything because we weren't there" trick. But the fact is that plenty of people understood the challenges, which were not at all new (what was new was the scale), and plenty of people were there (including the person you replied to) and are telling you about the failures that they saw.
I have a family member who is in a school IT department. They spent all summer preparing for remote learning.
Then they spent the last two weeks bulk flashing student laptops and ripping apart streaming servers to restore normal in-person learning because the governor put in a new order.
Anyone can predict that a failure will occur, predicting the specific mode of failure is almost impossible.
That clearly hasn't happened either.
Surely you've been in a meeting room with more than about 5 people? All of those people have conflicting viewpoints, theories about the situation, risk analysis and so on.
Can you imagine being a board member who spent 30% of a school budget on remote learning only to have in-class instruction all year?
Hindsight is 20/20. School budgets are generally tight, their IT teams have less-than-desired-bandwidth, and they've already had to handle costs and challenges with the current situation such as getting mobile hotspots and video conferencing solutions up. Remember that not all kids have laptops or internet at home - and school IT gets to handle that situation too.