My brother says he doesn't want schools to shut down longer then six months because he is worried his kids will become socially retarded. I told him that he was retarded and that schools being shut for the year or two would save them from catching or bringing home a disease which limits your brain cells, lung capacity, and more long term effects into his and his kids lives. He called me an asshole and said that scientist don't know anything. I told him that statistically socialization starts at home and people learn not from their peers but from their parents when it comes on how to socialize and that the social part of the brain solidifies at age four. And furthermore I told him that home schooled kids are way smarter and well spoken then public school children and that he should take the opportunity to raise them instead of the commie state raising them. He then called me fascist.


I hold a PHD in medical science working as a medical researcher and he is a unemployed stay at home dad.

Who was the asshole in this situation? Who is right?