Another view, from across the pond: Dozens of European countries are open and have ensured that their children go back to school, with sensible precautions in place, including these countries that all have medical experts and in many cases medical institutes that are on a par with our own.
A short list, astonishing in its uniformity of approach - don't panic, take wise precautions, but get the kids back in school:
- Norway, Denmark: schools are open; students had already returned to school in April
- Sweden: schools never closed
- Finland: reopened the schools after infection rates for Finnish schoolchildren were observed to be the same as infection rates for Swedish children
- Germany: most of the 16 German states are open; one temporarily closed its schools but expects to re-open
- France: all schools were opened again after the summer holidays in July (~1/3d of schools had already opened by 5/18, prior to the holiday break)
- Poland: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
- Russia: no plans to close; expect to be completely open
What do these countries - which produced Pasteur, Curie, Mendel, Krebs, et al. - know that we don't?
Or is it that we actually know better, and all our European cousins are headed for the Apocalypse?
No disrespect intended whatsoever in asking, What's wrong with this picture?