Based on fatality figures for elementary and high school students, the seasonal flu is more deadly than Covid-19.
The teachers and other staff who are more elderly might be more at risk is schools reopen, but so are elderly grocery store workers and they are still manning their posts. Do you think teachers should step up and risk their health to teach our children in person or would it be better to put them in their basement with a Zoom app for another semester?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.