I am not sure what world you live in but there are many viruses that we get and schools have been managing them forever, novoviruses influenza, measles in particular.

All are deadly all happen.

In some places in the world guns kill more kids that viruses in schools, then there is maleria and malnutrition.

My son was already a year behind where he needs to be and now even further back.

We need to get the kids back into school, my sons school has been open all the time anyway, just kore kids in sept. There are lots of risks covid is a current one, it affects people in NHS,Carehome, Shop workers, Factory Workers, Teachers Services.

The key is to manage it to the best of our ability.

All our kids are more important than any of us. What will be will be

Sounds like you are just going down the fittest will survive route or let’s go for herd immunity Approach.

How much is based on your son and how much on the science.

Whilst there is some suggestion the virus is weakening until we know then there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

The way the government has worked is to do no contingency planning until after the event by which time the damage is done.

If we were to go back to the April scenario of infections and deaths would you be wanting a full lockdown.

In my view opening too quickly and then closing down again is worse than a gradual and safe and planned opening up of society.

The suggestion I put forward previously allows for this . It can always be adapted for children with special needs or those who are more in need of services.

Mine and most children would not be inconvenienced with 3 days at school and two days distant learning .

I work in NHS clinical, so I know the score.

The area I am in has little transmission at the moment and I would be happy with part time or week about if needed.

Here neither of those are worth it as covid is at such low levels.

I took my son out a week early in March as I knew local transmission was too high.

The virus isn't weakening but the virus that transmits the most will always win out, usually the one that kills the least wins that game.

Herd immunity is the ONLY way out of this and that will happen either naturally or via vaccines, theraputics etc to relieve the amount of deaths as low as possible.

we know the score now, it isn't as deadly as first thought, 2.2% down to about 0.5%, but it is still more deadly than the flu but ultimately the only answer is to do our best.

so you are agreeing that, despite the lunatic left assertion otherwise, we are all doing our best?

Good, maybe you can tell Durham (self important) Giant that, it is amazing how many experts there are on RLFans recently, nothing like a global pandemic to fuel the fires of hate and jealousy,

We all have our views and from that we create what I would hope is a better view

For some though it is to late....