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That's mostly due to teaching unions. The risk to children from Corona virus is vanishingly small.

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-ris...

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Viruses spread. It’s not just the children we’re worried about.

Ask Israel how opening schools worked for them.

There's a curiously large amount of people that just don't understand the second order effects.

At this point people understand what they want to understand. I don’t know how to fix that.

Ask Sweden. Relatively few teachers have caught COVID there. Taxi drivers have a five times higher risk than teachers. Also, it depends on the age of the pupils.

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