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The school kids may/are probably at low risk for serious effects of CV 19, other than the anecdotal death/serious afflictions from the virus. I think many of us are aware of that v slight impact on school age children...
The people at risk are the teachers, admins, bus drivers, and the parents/grand parents that are in close contact with 'the kids'.
I get that kids ought to be in school: it's good for them/better learning situ/social, etc , not to mention that a considerable % of families in the US have two parents 'working' and the kid(s) in school time allows for my parents to get back to their outside the house jobs, if they still have a job.
'Back to work' helps the mental health of us all as a nation, and of course the Econ...
The state and local school boards are in a no win situ and are trying to figure out how to get them back 'safely', and weighing the risks the kids 'take home' with them...a bit of Damocles Sword in a way.
For the elected idiots, (either 'party'), to pound the table and push, cajole, 'demand' that 'schools reopen' is simply political theater based on whim and party driven platitudes, imo.
Of one were to line up 20 top epidemologists/viral research people and ask "How is it going, is the virus eroding in severity, will it come around in a stronger fashion, what are the estimated risk components, what is 'your opin', et al" and on and on, I suspect we would get a dozen+ opins.
But at least those opins and comments are coming from medical people who have the education and scientific background to make a comment/opin...our elected knuckleheads, (with v few exceptions who have medical/science degrees), are just opining on what they would like to have happen, and again 'bs party politics' driven and often derisive, divisive and polarized simply for effect.
I surely don't have the answer(s), but as a grand parent and very close to our 17 yr old about to be HS senior, I don't want to 'get it' and see/hope I am one of the 'lucky ones'.
My point of view on wanting to dodge the current version of SARS-CoV-2 is personal, I understand, but for many of us it is personal. So is the Econ, biz in general, our population's mental & physical health, et al.
Not arm wrestling, but just pivoting off a stat that shows low hospitalization/even lower death rate and suggesting that school kids are 'insulated' at school is disingenuous at best.
Stats are all over the net from hundreds of sources; I follow this crap closely, (I have a debilitating neuro condition and an erratic at best immune system), and even with close reading from many sources it is v difficult to get a handle on it in terms of its current seriousness, mid to longer term impact on humans, and on and fookin on.
In the meantime, I am careful but not paranoid and other than chasing the ball 3-4 days a week with a rare trip to Walmart/et al, we have pretty much refrained from our usual social stuff. A pity and discouraging, as in our early 70s we don't have 'years to be patient and wait out' this situ.
Back at the semi-Political Ranch, current elected idiots of either party and the appointed toadies in 'authority', esp the non med legions, are simply talking heads with an agenda, imo. "Bread & circuses" has not changed much over the millennia, just the amount and the media driven short/hyperbolic news cycle.
Back to snooze, and dodging the fookin Cooties...Be safe and careful out there.
GL, Ol'UncleMotor
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