Children and young people are not idiots and can see the truth.
They see the adults in positions of responsibility lying and trying to avoid taking responsibility. Look what's happening in Hull - entirely predictable.
Adults - MPs - who do nothing are complicit in deaths, it's as simple as that. They'd do far better to put the money they'll need for extra testing for contacts into safety measures and testing in schools. But they won't do that because that would give less profit for their chums.
It doesn't make logical sense - you'd be far better doing group tests of classes in schools on a regular basis. Then you'd have some chance of picking up asymptomatic cases and stopping spread before it starts. If you have a contact of a positive wandering around, what does regular testing do? It's really not going to stop spread if they don't have to isolate until they test positive.
False negative rates are really high early on before people are asymptomatic - the WHOLE REASON sars-cov-2 has spread around the word is because people are contagious BEFORE they get symptoms. For several days.
So contacts will be going around spreading it, testing results take days so they'll be spreading it when contagious but with no result, likely in the most contagious phase. It's laughable - has any other country done this? I doubt it.
Herd immunity doesn't work, in Manaus Brazil where they 'let it rip' they're having a second wave despite something like 66% having it in the first wave (and needing to dig mass graves - is that what the government want here?).
Even if you don't care about the deaths - which our government don't seem to - they're subjecting vast tranches of the population to chronic, long term disease which will massively affect productivity - and a vaccine is so close. It's clear and obvious madness.
(article about Manaus and Brazil more generally if anyone interested)
foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/29/brazils-first-wave-not-over-yet-coronavirus-pandemic-manaus-bolsonaro/