As the next Covid waves arrive, vaccinate the kids and send them to school

Adults must circle the wagons around the young, so they can resume their much needed learning and socialising.

As new variants--delta, and then probably epsilon and whatever comes next--bring us more waves of Covid-19 in the fall and winter, policymakers and citizens in all developed countries should say out loud and in unison: This time, let’s save our kids.

This means, yes, offering youngsters vaccinations if the parents agree, as Germany just decided to do for children older than 12, even while a commission of scientists still dithers about recommending this step. 

Even more importantly, it means that the vaccine slouches among us adults should finally bare arms to build the epidemiological equivalent of a firewall around the young. I’m