OT. Schools...normality and Coronavirus.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Sorry rA but why are teachers exempt from working in their front line roles on safety grounds due to contact with children (evidently low risk transmitters) whereas its OK for NHS, emergency services, shop workers, transport workers and many more to have to work when exposed to adults who seemingly are greater risk transmitters.

It wasn't long ago that you were saying that teachers were front line key workers. If that's so, they should step up to the plate and demonstrate that you were right in that assessment. You can't be a front line key worker sat at home iin front of a computer - although if you can then Im a front line key worker too.

I fully appreciate that it's easy for me to say as I can work from home and remain shielded, as a clinically vulnerable member of a group which has "contributed" 1 in 4 covid deaths. But we cannot just sit on our arses and wait for armageddon.

What if the armed forces had taken this view in previous conflicts and said they thought it was a bit risky to land on those Normandy beaches?

Finally suggesting the MPs go first is pathetic. Childshly daring a more vulnerable group to prove its safe for a less risky group is unworthy.

And to your other point about why shut the schools down in the first place then if its so safe? Simply because less was known about the nature of the virus 7 weeks ago I reckon.

I may be wrong, it may be a disaster to reopen, but the empirical evidence to hand now points to it being less risky, and two weeks more of the European experience may add more weight to that risk assessment - or may blow it out of the water.