Current New England Journal of Medicine: Swedish study of schools (never closed). Risk to kids, especially young ones, minimal, zero deaths. Risk to teachers actually less than that of other Swedes. Conclusion: Keeping schools open posed little risk and had obvious benefits.
So when we are told “Follow the science,” we should ask, “Which science?”
I was going to post this on other media but I did not want to be banned. Result of budding totalitarianism: We are not sure what is forbidden so we censor ourselves even more strictly than the censors would have. Stalin would be proud.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2026670?query=featured_secondary