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Originally Posted by jfman
Nice selective quotation, Pierre.
And in actual fact in the pandemic it's a sensible precautionary action to stop the NHS being overwhelmed. The data will inevitably support schools bring the cause as infections drop in Tier 4 areas that have, to date, seen increases.
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Option A: Their parents who in turn caught it in non-essential retail.
Option B: Schools where there's no requirement to distance, no masks and poor ventilation. Plus cramming kids onto school buses to get there. 
Now I'm no expert but one of those scenarios has all the reasons I'm not allowed to go into work.
Can only hope they are the answer, otherwise home schooling is going to go on a lot longer. |
The original thinking on schools, was that they don't reach the stage of being able to infect anybody else. That might still be the case, but testing of schoolkids would highlight those "infected, but not infectious", creating a possible false alarm. Somebody can be immune, but still present with a positive test. The virus has to be present in the body for the immune system to deal with any subsequent reinfection.
People who have been previously breaking the rules, will still do so. People have have been gathering in large groups for weddings and funerals will still do so. Those gathering for "elite sports" such as dominoes, will still do so.