Are kids not capable of carrying covid and spreading it to adults?
I got an email this week that story time at the public library is canceled because of covid. No adult venues canceled.
If individual families want to choose to take their kids out of school that should be their choice. It should not be the default.
Based on what? Also, you can get it more than once. This is a pretty bleak outlook.
> Why we should sacrifice children's well being
Why should we sacrifice the teacher's well being?
> delay the time at which their parents or families will be infected is beyond me.
Because getting sick isn't guaranteed and getting sick can land people in the hospitals and clog our healthcare system.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
The CDC estimated that 44% of the US population had been infected as of September 2021. Obviously that number will be higher now.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Again, you aren't sacrificing the teacher's well being. The teacher is, anyway, most likely going to get covid. If a teacher doesn't like being exposed to children they should resign or be fired. Schools are not for the benefit of teachers but for the benefit of children.
Once vaccinated you are unlikely to require hospitalization. Actually, you're unlikely to require hospitalization regardless of vaccination but especially unlikely once vaccinated. Maybe it's sensible for people to make some minor changes to "flatten the curve" but going to remote school is no minor change and it is far worse than the negligible benefits.
While it's true you can catch the disease multiple times subsequent infections are less likely and less severe.
Whatever a small number of teachers or students need we should not rearrange the education system for the benefit of edge cases. We should optimize for the typical case - average health people, and make adjustments to support the edge cases, not the other way around.
There was a study in the UK from the summer of last year that said the majority of unvaxxed people had antibodies to it. (Sorry, don't have the URL)
Omicron is more transmissible, so if most had been infected then, an ever higher proportion will have been infected now.
Both of the extremes in this kinda drive me batty. On one side, I know a family that was taking distance learning as a chance to travel the world with their kids, before any vaccine was available. They have caught covid 3 times now.
I also know people that have resolved to never get covid. Why? Because it's covid. Any attempts to discuss things in more detail brings out comparisons to things such as the bubonic plague, measles, and drinking water you shit in.