with no school or group day care, kids stay at home even more than parents, who still go out for groceries and such. so the main reason kids don't spread it is because they do the lockdown thing so well. which makes the argument that they should go back to school in person utterly ridiculous.
there is some evidence that suggests that in similar circumstances, kids under 10 spread it less than kids 10-19 or adults. but the 10-19 year olds spread it at least as much as adults.
in any event, it's not like younger kids don't spread it at all or are immune. it's still a big risk to increase the chance of infection and spreading during a pandemic.
under normal circumstances, kids are *extremely* effective at spreading contagious diseases, and any parent knows this because parents frequently get sick a few weeks after school starts every year because it's practically a guarantee that junior will pick up any bug any of his classmates have and give it to mommy and daddy.
when parents go back to work, it will be with reduced people in the office, plexiglass, separate ventilation, handwashing stations, all meetings via zoom, etc.
when kids go back to school, it will be 7 or 8 back to back 45 minutes classes with a dozen or more people each. even if they spread covid-19 less readily than adults, giving them that much time and opportunity to spread it is literally asking for a surge in cases and a worsening of the pandemic.
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