childrensnational.org/news-and-events/childrens-newsroom/2020/significant-number-of-children-become-seriously-ill-with-covid-19
Those who like to use the word mongering when posters talk about poor outcomes, look away now.
We don't know enough to send children back to school. About the virus. About the scope of our government's scientific advice. About our competency to meet the tests for leaving lockdown. They seem to have become conditional but they needed to be non-negotiable.
We're not Finland. We're utterly crap compared to Finland. So let's not pretend we'll have Finland's outcomes just because Finland is clever. (And roomy).
For those who think it's vanishingly unlikely to be your child. Fair enough. But it will be someone's child. So let's get our ducks in a row and hold the government accountable to deliver a competent, proven test and trace system with a low enough transmission rate to ensure it will work.
This is not flu. Flu doesn't create this kind of death toll. We don't even know what it is yet but the urban myths about children being invincible and harmless if infected need to stop. If this goes wrong and we have a vaccine in the the time frame put forward by some researchers, we'll point the finger at the government for not making us wait. Let think twice about what we do instead. The government are responding partly to pressure from the electorate. So let's pressurise them to be competent.
This isn't the blitz... It's potentially so much worse. Our current advisors are saying the only good thing about COVID-19 is the way it passed over children. That isn't the case and it isn't something to rely on.