@RainbowParadise We have some fantastic teachers but who are extremely vulnerable or have been shielding.
It seems very likely that some of these teachers will get ill, or die, or go into early retirement, or change career, if they face being made ill in the workplace.
So we need to watch this spot, because we don't have enough good teachers.
Of course, if the virus magically dies out,or a superduper vaccine comes on line in the next month or 2, and takes away all the risk, then that would be great. But that might not happen.
Alternatively, if the options are to lose a load of excellent teachers in various ways, because they are at risk, or to modify classrooms, so they are safe, then we probably need to modify classrooms.
Likewise, consulting rooms for doctors and other health professionals. For example, we might need to re-design them so that there is a transparent but solid screen between doctor and patient, and, on each side, there is a way of ventilating the room through to the outside. If we are to live with this long term.
Otherwise, the HCPs may well simply take their early retirement in large numbers,or change career, rather than become unwell (especially if this worsens with repeated exposure).
So yes, we would need to modify these things in the medium to long term, if we are to live with this.
Likewise, we might need to revisit how we do things in supermarkets and other shops,more than we have done already.
And all this would have multiple implications as well for safety from other viruses and bacteria that could cause pandemics.