Reopening Schools: Find the research and get healthy by exercising and modifying behaviors

Because this is not my normal fitness/training blog, if you are going to take away one thing from reading this, I'd hope it would be to modify daily lifestyle habits/routines in order to get healthier and become more resilient to illness/viruses. The million dollar question right now for schools and parents...provide 5 day in-person instruction, full-time cyber, or a blended model. Do we listen to what families want for their children or to teachers' unions? Furthermore, do we make uneducated, self-serving decisions based on political agendas or do we search for the science based studies and doctors who research the coronavirus? I went to school for Chemistry, so you know how my mind works. I encourage everyone to read or listen to the work of Dr. Katz, Dr. Ionannidis, Dr. Wittowski, and Dr. Gupta. Dr. Katz recently interviewed with Michael Smerconish on the Smerconish Show. He talks different aspects of the virus such as risk quantification to minimize exposure among the most vulnerable, how masks do not eliminate your chance of contracting it, but only reduce your exposure to it, and how the U.S. has failed both in pandemic management and ignoring the desperate need for Americans to get healthy. His main topic was new hopeful research pointing to the widespread resistance to the virus. He says that within 4-8 weeks (from August 4th), we will be at well above the threshold for herd immunity, ~80% of the population in fact. How is this possible? Start asking yourself why so many people test positive for it but show no symptoms. Dr. Katz says that ~50% of the population have a partial native resistance to coronavirus because of their past exposure and immunity to the common cold virus. Corona is in the big family of common colds and think about how many times you've had a cold. Then, ~20% of the population test positive and have antibodies for the virus. Finally, ~10% of us get a mild bout of corona and fight it off with lymphocytes. This amounts to that awesome ~80% for herd immunity. So what does this mean for the start of school thru the month of October? Dr. Katz says that the current wave will have washed over us by this time. Moreover, there will be no 2nd wave in the fall because the virus never went away during the summer months. Policy makers have put absurd restrictive limitatons on schools without consulting researchers who look at the science. They, along with the majority of school board members and teachers, have selfishly neglected to seek out studies, research, and scientific papers. I am beyond disappointed that my school district made the decision BEFORE looking at the numbers for what families wanted to do for their children. I feel stress and extreme pressure to do it ALL now that I have this huge undertaking of homeschooling Luke 3 days/week while taking care of Sienna and trying to get my training business off the ground. 

Dr. Katz interview on hopeful research on widespread resistance to COVID-19:

​Click link below. It's only 20 minutes, please listen. It's worth it.

https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/a9914a41-78d6-4402-8150-b8f14a44945b/51857cb8-3c73-46ee-a49e-c82160085810