I agree about schools, colleges and universities( although the latter does seem to have its share of dickheads partying that has not helped. here there is trong debate about schools and it is pretty much h case where regional directives have shut Scuola Superiore (Secondary schools) and the Primary schools end up pretty much shutting themselves when they have pupils staff testing positive resulting in the school quarantining. Don't know about UK but there is strong evidence of here of a link between schools , Universities and 'hotspots' for Covid infections. Strangely, up to now, there is a weird precedence, locally, of old people (70s and 80s) in the care homes recovering from the virus whereas in the Spring peak, apart from the odd exception with a handful of 90 year olds and someone 102 making a full recovery, the death rate amongst over 75s was horrendous (although over 95%, not surprisingly, had additional health issues). It is entirely possible , although I have nothing to back this up that, whilst the sheer numbers of those infected this peak may well exceed the Spring one, it was that which 'culled' many of the most vulnerable people. so the death toll this time may be relative to those infected , may be lower. One can only hope. PS While CDC research on this topic is ongoing and as yet unpublished, they note that they have been unable to culture viral specimens obtained from individuals more than nine days following the onset of symptoms. This means that these viral specimens were not capable of replicating — or, in other words, they were not infectious. In fact, the CDC’s preliminary conclusion is that “the statistically estimated likelihood of recovering replication-competent virus approaches zero by 10 days or more than three days after recovery.”
In that the truth is too inconvenient to face for the majority of people. It’s hard to turn a mirror to ourselves and face facts that human activity is ground zero for the majority of zoonotic viruses and diseases, not to mention the shocking destruction of our planet. I mean, what other species sets out to systematically destroy its own habitat? If you aren’t part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
The next pandemic is only a mutation away, on an industrial chicken farm near you... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-54787797
