AIBU to think that some parents won't want to send kids back yet?

[Toomuchtrouble4me]

I totally get that loads of parents want to get back to work and want to get their kids back to school - even though this pandemic is still raging.
We have a health compromised family with over-reactive immune systems and I don't fancy two of our chances if we get this virus.
I don't really see why were re-opening schools when nothing has changed, we may as well have kept them open all along.
It's not so much of an AIBU as a WWYD - I'm not sending mine back, unless something really drastic changes, before September when I'll re-assess.
Just wondering if i'm a lone voice? I know that lots of you will HAVE to send kids back because of your own jobs, but if you didn't have to, if you could keep them home until summer holidays start - would you do it? Should parents who are too scared to send kids back be fined for non-attendance?

Case in point...

www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-roads-gridlocked-cars-over-4149287

Oh balls, wrong thread. As you were!

Absolutely. Of all the members of society, kids and teachers are probably the least at risk. Therer is no evidence in the mass of statistics from 139 coutnries that either group is more susceptible than any other groups, of from countries with nio lockdown or havent closed schoosl that covid is a problem. Its left wing alarmist mischief making.

I agree some people in other professions are too comfy being at home. But as a teacher myself, I am more busy now than I would be if we returned to school.

I’m happy to return to school. I too worry about the long term impact it will have on students’ mental health. However, I wouldn’t dare criticise any other teacher who didn’t feel comfortable returning.

1. schools are massively underfunded as it is. Gov guidelines say that extra hand washing facilities and many more hygiene protocols should be provided yet no funding to do so
2. national guidelines state 2m distance yet gov have admitted this is near impossible in schools. If it doesn’t matter in schools then it either undermines the national message or gives people the message that children and teachers are being ‘thrown under the bus’
3. some teachers will fall under those who should be shielding or unable to return to work. Yet class sizes to reduce to (mainly half) of 15. If a school have less staff available to work, where are these extra classes going to get teachers from? Again, another funding issue.

Ultimately, it is 100% down to each individual as considering the government and scientists don’t know what’s happening day to day, I feel it is unfair to judge others on their opinion in such unprecedented times. Teachers are well within their rights to either want/ not want to return to school, just the same as parents wanting/ not wanting to. Just do what you feel is best in this moment in time. Things can change daily and take each day as it comes until we are able to understand this whole thing better.

Every year an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 people die in the world due to complications from seasonal influenza (flu) viruses (WHO). This figure corresponds to 795 to 1,781 deaths per day due to the seasonal flu. So its necessary to subtract that fro many numbers to calculate the Mortality rate and the R0. Yesterday there was 2257 deaths attributed to covid, but how many of those were actually normal flu/pneumonia deaths. Theres a huge difference between 'died OF covid' and 'died WITH covid'.