Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
rA the new variant doesn't change the overall risk for Teachers in comparison to other workers though, yes it raises the overall risk due it being more infectious, but that applies to everybody, so if we close schools due to the risk to teachers then everything else should be shut.
At the risk of repeating myself. I recognise that teachers aren’t the only people at risk...but they are, generally speaking in the current circumstances, the ones confined to a room with around thirty other individuals for in excess of six hours a day.

Schools are also the places that people are making the most fuss over being shut down. My view is that if society wants them fully reopened asap they need to protect those that work there asap.

Those are my thoughts on the subject...I can’t say it any other way and I recognise I’m clearly in the minority, but I can live with that.