I'm finding this thread fascinating.
Question re school closures -
Seeing that a) at the moment, we have hardly any cases in the UK, b) children are great at spreading germs around their families and into the wider community and c) in an absolute worst case apocalypse style scenario, it would be the young people we would want to come out of the crisis alive, wouldn't we be better off closing schools for a fortnight or so with all KS2, 3, 4 and 5 children inside the schools, not at home with individual families? Before it's too late and infection is everywhere?
The rest of the world could still work, the children could be educated and have holiday camp style activities in evenings and at weekends. And they'd be safe. For those of us who are teachers, the pain of having to self isolate with all the children would be mitigated by being safer than out among the general population.
I work in a boarding school. Our Chinese children couldn't go home for half term and probably won't be able to go home for Easter either. Our Spanish children may not be able to go home for Easter at this rate either. I feel sorry for them not getting to see their families but think, at the moment, they are probably safer.
Of course, there's no way this would fly with parents. But just musing on what would make more logical sense.