How should we be dealing with Covid then?

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Genuinely interested.

I agree that children’s education is very important and for all children, school is the best place for them. I also understand that it’s a necessity for parents to be able to work.

We were previously told that children were less likely to catch or spread Covid, but this turned out to be incorrect...perhaps due to a new strain...and we are now learning that whilst not affected any worse than they already were (so thankfully illness is mild), they are as infectious as any other age group.

We also are aware that schools can not ensure social distancing due to space, but social distancing appears to be our biggest protection as a society against this virus.

We know looking at the cases in the lead up to Christmas that the virus was spreading in many schools, due to lack of social distancing and safety measures. We are hopefully not daft enough to think that cases won’t go back up again as schools reopen.

So, what should we do?

We can’t (can we?) allow numbers of cases to keep rising in schools as inevitably children will take the virus home.

We haven’t got the SD measures needed to reopen the schools safely.

What should schools do? Particularly to throes who would prefer schools not to shut at all.

Thank you!

I have seen the school children on their way to school, with no no masks worn, and with no distancing. I don't blame them. Their is little risk to themselves and they are young. But the honest truth is they are just perfectly placed to spread the virus to more vulnerable people. It sounds awful to ask schools to close and for individual children to put their education on hold, but as both a parent and an adult with vulnerable relatives close by, is it really a simple choice of education over risk to life?

In these unprecedented times, surely, adding time to a childs education, with access to extra years if needed would be better than the death of our loved ones.

The support for our children's mental health over the coming years, than the loss of our lives

It is possible to repair so much damage to all our lives, but it is not possible to bring back our dead.

For all our futures,

Iain

Arizona has a resident population of 7.3 million.
So these numbers scale up to 83,163 deaths if AZ had population = 67 million.
(Google says) 13% of AZ population is age 65+, compared to 18% of England residents are age 65+.

Can't see that Arizona way of handling schools was key to controlling virus there.

Not sure how "Fortify the food supply with vitamin D" turned into "individuals should buy vit D tablets off of Amazon".