Thread by @SunriserMa

„There are many countries in which parents can go out and have a nice steak dinner, but their seven-year-old is not going to school.“

Lesenswerter Artikel. Bitte unbedingt lesen⬇️🙏

https://twitter.com/winfriedkern/status/1413096422489083905

„SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!” tweeted then-President Donald Trump in July 2020. “That became a partisan moment,” Bailey says. “So many of us we were wired to not believe anything the president was saying.”

„When Danish primary schools reopened in April 2020, some parents worried that their kids were being used as guinea pigs. In France, where schools have mostly remained open, teens protested last November, saying that COVID-19 protections inside classrooms were inadequate.“

„Although some kids and teachers have caught SARS-CoV-2, schools don’t seem to be environments where transmission is rampant. “The rates in the schools have not been higher than in the community“

„Largest studies in schools in the US looked at ..90,000 pupils & teachers in NC over 9 weeks. Given the rate of transmission in the community,we would have expected to see about 900 cases in the schools.But when the[..] school-related transmissions,they identified only 32 cases“

„A second study, not yet published, looked at Nebraska. “They were open the whole year with over 20,000 students and staff, and there were only 2 transmission events during that entire study period. Critics argue that without surveillance testing, kids who don’t have symptoms⬇️

wont be identified or counted,so the true number could be much higher.But even if the real case numbers were 2-3x the numbers in these studies,the transmission rate would have been much lower than in the community. It’s safer for them to be in school than to be outside of school“