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Closing the schools is a difficult call.
Its estimated it would cause a 10-20% reduction in health worker availability as they would need to stay at home to look after their kids.
Also many kids are looked after by grandparents and that exposes the most vulnerable when we want them to isolate.
Wonder if a more nuanced approach needed, starting with those that can, taking their kids out of school to reduce opportunity to pass on the virus. Schools stay open just for essential workers?
velosaurus-
There's talk about them being open for key workers.
I work in a school - I don't feel comfortable going to in to a place with 1,000 people every day when that's completely the opposite of what all other countries are doing. -
Closing the schools is a difficult call.
Its estimated it would cause a 10-20% reduction in health worker availability as they would need to stay at home to look after their kids.
"Closing schools" here across the Channel means teachers still working, manning e-learning computers, while a handful of kids, including those of healthcare workers, continue to show up. See here for eerie footage of a school in the Netherlands with a capacity of 120 pupils teaching three instead, starts at about 7:00:
https://nos.nl/uitzending/48573-nos-journaal.html
In case you don´t suffer from the Low German throat disorder, the mum of the pupil who´s alone in a classroom with a teacher works in food processing.
jackc
Petteri
Nothing on schools. Very vague guidance on everything else.
Schools need to be closed.