Back to school, back to work....

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I’m struggling to see the issue with children with no underlying health issues returning to school and adults under a certain age with no underlying health issues going back to work.

Surely shielded people should stay shielded. Anyone who’s higher risk should be allowed to shield if they choose to and everyone else should be getting back to living their lives?

And yes the infection rate will likely go up but as long as shielded people are still doing just that then they won’t be exposed.

It feels like our children’s education and the economy are suffering massively because we’re locked down in solidarity.

Unsafe for me, unsafe for DC.

I completely respect that you don't want to send your children back to school. I'm leaning towards this position as well.

However, your statement is the wrong perspective imo. It's not 100% safe for anyone to go to work or to school or wherever. It's unlikely to be 100% safe for a long time. So what we need to do at the moment is weigh up the risks of catching the virus against the benefit of what we need to do outside the home.

If the benefit of going back to school outweighs the the risk of coronavirus, children should go back to school.
If the benefit of going into the office is lower than the risk of coronavirus, people can go back to the office.

The two decisions are not connected.