What is covid going to do to education this year?

I’m sorry but after replying to your post I did a quick review of current data and you really are scaremongering regarding the recorded infection rates. Most people will not self report so the actual infection rates are probably lower than they actually are, but it’s the hospitalised data that is most reliable. There has been a mild spike between July and August, most likely related to travel. Remember the cases that are hospitalised are in the 65+ age group very few people under that age end up in hospital and in addition hospital cases are often incidental to the cause of admission.
The hospital admissions of patients with Covid ( not just because of Covid) are at the lowest since 2020. It doesn’t mean that we are not on the verge of another spike, experts predicted that we may experience spikes for up to five years, but hospitalisations have plateaued. Deaths have also plateaued suggesting that the peak of infection may have been July.
The last big spike was Jan 2022 nearly two years ago. The vaccine and the weakening of the virus are both responsible for the reduced infection rates. Vaccination of vulnerable population will start soon, remember that these are boosting immunity not conferring it. The evidence that the vaccination program has been successful is plain to see. There will always be a small percentage who do not seroconvert or whose immune system are knackered due to extreme age.
Your individual circumstances have made your views extremely subjective. Please don’t scaremonger.

Your reference from the BMJ is interesting. Throughout the pandemic GPS have used every excuse to avoid face to face consultations. The aerosol issue was not relevant to GP practice but directly relevant to surgery involving aerosol production in operating theatres and dental surgeries. in dental surgeries where the most aerosols are produced and likely to affect both the operator and patients we were pretty much back to normal mid 2022. All restrictions had been lifted because there just wasn’t the evidence of transmission. However in clinical areas we wipe down surfaces between patient, but most importantly we wipe door handles.
Staff have contracted Covid but usually from family members not patients. We have stopped screening for Covid but we have always had a policy of not treating patients who have obvious viral symptoms.
GPs, on the other hand, are still doing their best to avoid direct contact with the public and use “research” to justify this.

The use of the word “unprecedented” is triggering. This summer has seen a large number of teenagers attending festivals. Their social lives are back to normal, many will have had a normal summer for the first time in three years. They will have travel abroad. So many opportunities to pick up any number of viruses. DS 18 came back from Greece in July with an awful chest infection which we all caught. He went to Boardmasters and caught a cold. Fortunately we have avoided the fallout from the Reading festival.
Sixth formers are far more socially and sexually active than younger pupils so viruses spread rapidly. This summer has been their first normal summer where all restrictions have been lifted. They are also the least vaccinated since they were under 15 when the vaccine was rolled out.

But it is also backed up by the Royal Society info I posted and many others including an article in Nature, which I didn't include because of paywall. None of these have the GP axe to grind.

I’m sorry that you are being hospitalised but you are immunosuppressed so in an at risk group. Hopefully the antivirals will work.
Im not disputing that you are experiencing a problem locally but the picture is not bleak generally.

Aerosols in surgery and dentistry have been an issue for decades. It was only during Covid that it was decided we were at risk. They closed us down for three months but then over the pandemic decided that the risk was not as serious as first thought.
We wear masks and face guards to stop our faces being plastered with blood, saliva and the detritus found in body cavities., we are not stupid enough to believe that a thin bit of fibre cloth is going to protect us from viruses.
If it was a serious risk to surgeons and dentists they would still be closed or operating at a pace that would seriously affect the nations health.
It’s interesting that many patients comment on the fact we are “still” wearing masks, we have been wearing face masks for the last 15+years no one noticed.
If we took the research seriously most dental practices would have closed permanently and the NHS waiting lists for procedures where aerosols are produced would be decades long.
My DH had a stroke last year, he has had routine checks with the practice nurse but at no point has his GP asked to see him face to face to assess him. This means that going forward they have no physical baseline to work from. We recently applied for a PIP which was declined because his GP hadn’t observed him and couldn’t comment. I attempted to make a face to face app for him but the new process of making an appointment means that it was not deemed necessary.
In our GP practice you have to phone reception, the receptionist puts in a request, the request is triaged and a GP will determine if you need face to face. Each time DH has been given a phone consult because a) he’s not ill and b) he is considered v vulnerable.
It’s frustrating.

Hopefully it is just the fallout from the “festivals”. The virus my DS brought back from Greece was far worse than Covid. DS has had Covid a few times and has had nothing but a sniffle. This virus put him ( and the rest of us) in bed for a week but none of us tested positive for Covid. It’s likely that your sixth formers are assuming it’s Covid, most parents will not pay out for tests but will assume it’s Covid. I certainly would have put DS’s Zante flu down to Covid or over doing things, but after he shared it with us it was defo a nasty dose of something.
It was a really nasty chest infection with a very mild cold like start. I struggled to sleep for a few nights and the cough caused rib pain and was exhausting. If I had been at work would defo have had time off.

@Angrymum22 breathing generates aerosols. So any enclosed space is a risky space, including GP surgeries.