About a 7-8. I'd feel much safer with blended learning as reduces risk of bubble isolation due to class sizes, rather than the stop/start and reduces risk of catching it. I wish there was another option for school, rather than this all or nothing approach - days off will probably be the same amount - one just lets you have a half-life and one lets you have none when isolating.
I'm scared of kids getting long-term Covid, I'm scared for my DC with asthma, I'm scared that simple things like class washing hands on entry and exit to school (R) aren't even being adhered to, I'm scared that me or DP won't make it/will get long term Covid/will be too ill to look after kids. I have a baby and don't feel my health back to normal yet - I don't think impact on babies is properly known. I'm scared kids will pass it to GPs.
I'd feel more safe if government acknowledged that schools were essentially a Russian roulette game, instead of pretending they were Covid secure. If the govt didn't tell such blatant lies (I know all governments do this), but this particular govt is just awful and takes it to another level. I also hate all those news pictures showing socially distanced schools. In fact this push to show schools as safe and Covid secure, the bollocks about senior school huge safe bubbles etc - I'm not surprised so many teenagers thought "fuck it" with parties etc over the summer - I don't blame them.
I'm scared of passing it unknowingly on to elderly relatives. I'm scared that I don't know what risks teachers and other parents have been taking. I'm sad that the rule of six now means that mixing with other families who had also been cautious has been removed for us and so for our kids to see anyone out of school now would mean enrolling in extra curricular activities - which increase exposure.
I'd feel safer if we didn't have such a narrow list of testing options, compared to most of the world. Id feel safer if this was acknowledged by the government, rather than pretending these other symptoms don't exist (even if they are UK studies!) - even if they admitted there wasn't capacity to test, but suggested not mixing with others whilst you have them. I'd feel safer if testing had greater capacity to close some of the chains of transmission etc (remember all those diagrams earlier on in the year). It would help us get back to a level of normal faster.
I'm just glad the push to go back to work when you could effectively wfh was not as successful as planned. Oh, and the conflict about whether to use public transport or not in London, coupled with the timely extension of the congestion charge was just shitty.
If we had effective testing for a wider range of symptoms, effective tracking, tracing, I'd be about a 4. If we had a successful tracing app too, then about a 2.
As it is, instead of trying to contain the spread effectively NOW, in terms of testing and sensible list of what to test for, some sensible measures in school, we are going to free fall into another shit show, where cases become much higher than they could otherwise be.