The real risk assessment is this: EVERY report from those INVOLVED in the Vaccine Development says by year end OR SOONER. We could benefit dramatically by pushing back the start of school to post vaccine and plan now for a segmented school year that goes year round https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1283097665367085057

That reduces the stress/difficulty/risk of trying to open now. Gives schools the time to plan a post vaccine opening that will have less disruption from the past and to create a schedule that catches up kids for lost days.

Call me crazy, but i would rather bet on Science and American Exceptionalism to provide the best solution to this problem, than on thousands of schools and millions of administrators who have been placed in an impossible situation getting it right.