Tasty, I am not saying I won't go back. In fact, despite being in the 'vulnerable' group, I both stayed at work to the end and will go back when asked.
I would just like, as I said, there to be some evidence that someone who knows about schools has done at least some risk assessment, including risk for the wider school community.
As soon as schools go back, unless significant steps are taken that are very different from 'back to normal', every member of every household that sends a child into school will be linked in a way that allows easy transmission of infection.
In fact, since households often have children at 2 or more educational settings - nursery, primary, secondary - as soon as children return then thousands of households are immediately linked by a possible virus transmission route.
The modelling of the likely illness rates, not necessarily amongst the children at all, but amongst brothers, sisters, parents, staff, staff parents, grandparents, extended family is a critical piece of information that the NEU has rightly asked for in today's letter.
Each wave of additional adults needed to prop up the staffing (because it does seem that adults are both more susceptible to and more affected by the virus) involves aother wave of families, the elderly etc being drawn into that 'community pool' of transmission.
It's the risk to society as a whole, not specifically to me, that I would want to see modelled and mitigated.