"I don’t get how so many people can’t understand the term ‘risk assessment’"
It seems to me a lot of people go on about risk assessments like they are the only ones that can do them. In reality this differs as people dismiss or minimise risks. Think of the anti vaxxers here and America on their 30 's and 40's because of the young people aren't at risk narrative.
The science is no different here than it is in Ireland Europe isreal etc the US etc which is the data jcvi rely on. Plenty of stats show myocarditis is more likely from natural infection than vaccines albeit still rare.
Do we really think that the jcvi and better at risk assessing than all these other countries and it is a "lost art" there too?
The benefits of vaccines increase as incidence of disease increases and it's pretty high here now and will be for a few months yet.
And it is a bit strange how before we even had vaccines it was decided to send kids back and put cev kids and relations, bus drivers, school staff etc at risk because the risk to them was worth it because of damage to kids education but now it's not important and can't be considered but they can comment that immunising in schools will take time from lessons. It is quite likely that most kids will have to isolate over the next academic year for at least 10 days. Staff may go off for weeks at a time.