badecker.. try to read and understand the links you link
the doctor was not questioning the entire lockdown. he was requesting evidence about if students are a 'superspreader' risk to explain why students were being homeschooled as he was concerned about the mental health impacts of students.
The former medical director spoke from his own experience as a parent, expressing his apprehension that Bay Area students were not being allowed to attend in-person classes, according to KTVU-TV.
other doctors were talking about how certain health screenings were cancelled thus putting more potential cancer/heart failure patients at risk by not being tested early.
yes some restrictions may seem silly at first due to the lack of explanation. but if you actually look into it. although the severity rate/deathrate of student aged people is low. and thus not a risk of their own health causing hospital overloads. its actually the harm they can do to others by mingling in classes of 25+ people and then going home to pass it to their elderly relatives, and thats the risk.
EG UK cases rose fast as soon as the september school term began(UK let students go school but advised families not to mingle with elderly/vulnerable family members)
but as you can see that has not helped as cases still rose. which shows UK was too relaxed with letting kids go school
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as for mental health. kids having a year off school is a dream for most kids. yes there is the pressure and mental stress of still getting good grades to appease their parents(kids dont usually care about grades personally). but put that in comparison to the mental stress of finding out they were the cause of their grandparents death.. on balance school stress vs relative death by your action... most kids would prefer to live with the school stress and keep granny/grandpa alive
most parents questioning the reasons for homeschooling dont care about the health impacts.. they are just annoyed and irritated with having their kids at home 24-7 and want to find any excuse to get them out the house for a few hours a day.
yes they pretend their kids mental state is going to suffer. but reality its the parents own mental state of actually having to care for their kids 24-7
in short yes schools are super spreader locations. they may not die but they certainly will be coughing and breathing on loads of people. kids are usually a cesspool of bugs and viruses. having coughs and sniffles many times a year. even college kids get sick during the 'freshers' week due to mingling with strangers
but this virus this year is more deadly because its new and people have not built up an immunity.
(and before you even spout your herd percentage garbage.. no its not as high as you pretend. its actually stil very low)(even if 1% of population got infected every week. it would still take a whole year to get 52% herd.. and infections are far far below 1% a week average)