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The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data | medRxiv 
CDC admits Schools are not a place of Covid transfer.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/transmission_k_12_schools.html
Asymptomatic transmission a lie
10 million cases and zero asymptomatic transmission
6 feet social distancing has no basis in science
Opinion | Schools Must Reopen to All Children This Fall. Here's How. - The New York Times
Harvard doctor says 3 feet is more than enough
Opinion | Three feet of social distancing should be enough in schools - The Washington Post
Lack of evihttps://takeactioncanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7.-Opinion-_-Three-feet-of-social-distancing-should-be-enough-in-schools-The-Washington-Post.pdfdence for transmission to the home or from the school
Teachers not at risk of contracting from students
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11688223/sage-teachers-low-risk-covid/
Leading epidemiologists
Focusing on school closures, there never was and currently is no good reason to keep schools closed. None! Zero! Not for one more day. The CDC recently stated in a January 2021 JAMA publication “the preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring insofar as the type of rapid spread that was frequently observed in congregate living facilities or high-density worksites has not been reported in education settings in schools.”
Our governments appear to have colluded with unions to close schools and keep them closed based on irrational, unthinking, nonsensical, unscientific policies similar to societal lockdowns (that even work to increase transmission risk in families and households). These actions have caused known (not theoretical) and almost immeasurable harms to our children
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/eabe2424.full
Schools are not super spreaders
Schools Aren't Super-Spreaders - The Atlantic
Ace2 receptors in children’s nasal passage
Nasal ACE2 Levels and COVID-19 in Children | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
Failing our children
We Are Failing Our Children | Discovery Institute
Teachers union paying fake science to argue against reopening schools
Science Table member paid by union for arguing school re-openings | Toronto Sun
Low in person risk for teachers
Increase in family domestic violence during pandemic
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665910720300384
Low rates of Covid transmission in schools
Duke, UNC study finds low rates of in-school COVID transmission - ABC11
Children are at a far greater risk of dying from seasonal influenza then Covid
Science says: 'Open the schools' | TheHill
A Norwegian study looked at 200 primary-school children aged 5 to 13 and who had COVID-19 (testing all contacts twice within their quarantine), found that there were no instances of secondary spread, further dispelling the notion that children play a primary role in spreading within the school setting.
Journal of medical virology No evidence of child to child or child to adult Transmision
Masks completely unnecessary unscientific and detrimental
#OpenSchoolsNow | Physician Outlook
The Truth About Kids, School, and COVID-19 - The Atlantic
More than 300 health professionals call on Doug Ford to keep Ontario schools open | Toronto Sun
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2020/12/15/peds.2020-029280.full.pdf
Sweden had schools open the entire time and not a single child death
Sweden Has Had Schools Open, Over One Million Kids & No Deaths – Collective Evolution
McMaster Children’s Hospital 300% increase in serious suicide attempt during lockdown
McMaster Children’s Hospital reports rise in ‘more serious’ suicide attempts | TheSpec.com