Are you going to send your kids back to school or are you going to homeschool them this fall?

I appreciate your thoughts on this. I do suspect much of the concern about opening the schools is really about the staff. My wife and I are both in healthcare and live with the risks of our professions. I think we are redefining "essential workers" as this pandemic unfolds. There are huge second and third order effects of having kids out of class. I suspect there is no right answer and where you live will play a huge role in helping parents decide.

Have your doctor put you on short term disability. Otherwise, grab some N95 masks and come on out with the rest of us who have been working through the whole thing no matter what preexisting conditions they might have.

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2017-508.pdf

Sir, would you not agree the greatest threats to life come from non-COVID causes in the U.S. and certainly the media has seemed to de-emphasized that? Accidents will still tragically kill more kids by 1000% and chronic disease will take down ten times as many who are over 65 than COVID. While I am hopeful that mass vaccination will eventually prove to be safe and effective for COVID-19, herd immunity can also be protective. I am also very hopeful that testing accuracy will be increased. Until then, I hope our country doesn't give way to frenzy.

LTC (Join to see) - I would 100% agree, but remember what my response to your post was... there is misinformation from the public health authorities as a result of a political directive. You have done what many in the media, politics, street, you name it have done- you have committed the fallacy of distraction. I am starting certain facts, i.e. kids can get the virus and be asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, however from an epidemiological perspective this helps to spread disease NOT curb it. That was my point. Purely fact based and scientific without any opinion.

Yes, my kid is more likely to be in a car accident, and the bus on the way to school may flip over due to the lax hiring practices amongst school bus companies, but what does that have to do with the facts on the table? Just because there are other things that kill people more often does not and should not DISTRACT one from the issue at point--> SARS-Cov-2 is a very infectious and contagious pathogen. From a public health perspective, and as anyone who has sent a child to school (I have 4- 25 down to a 5yo) kids are walking petrie dishes, and although they may just have sniffles, they can spread to mom and dad, and grandpa/ma, and their neighbor, etc, etc. This is just public health facts.
Regarding herd immunity, 60% of the population needs to have survived the disease to be able to reduce further spread in society. We are not even at 25% 6 months later and after >150k deaths. Are you ok with at least ~400-500k people dying from this in order to maybe achieve herd immunity? Public health officials not connected to politics have advocated for proven methods to reduce spread, and putting a bunch of kids together without any risk mitigation is literally the opposite of common sense. Reduce class sizes, offer some online/hybrid learning, stagger classes, etc, etc. These can all help reduce spread and the resultant issues that might arise.
Those are facts. Now for opinion.... I just dropped one kid off to college yesterday. My youngest daughter will start some hybrid form of her Junior year in HS in a couple of weeks, however, my 5yo (with asthma) will get a tutor and online, till a vaccine is proven effective. I try not to preach opinion. My job is dealing with facts and making clear arguments to disseminate them.