I would agree that all children are by definition under 30, but Big 10 athletes aren’t children!
What percentage of people (children included) have already had Covid 19 and recovered?
They should be testing people. Those who’ve already had Covid 19 should not he considered “unvaccinated”, the goal of vaccination is not vaccination, the goal is Herd Immunity. This includes variants.
I think it is generally considered not only unnecessary but potentially harmful to vaccinate in this particular instance, and we have to stop treating people as interchangeable meat sticks. 9 year olds are different than 19 year olds are different than 90 year olds, their immune systems.
I don’t disagree with anything you have here, at least as it relates to actual children (12 and under). Teens still seem to carry enough infection to be able to transmit and high schools have seen significant outbreaks. Is it particularly dangerous to those kids? No, not even the myocarditis which occurs at a much higher rate for COVID-19. That generally goes away on its own with some rest. But there’s a risk of them spreading it to vulnerable people. That risk doesn’t appear to be present with pre-teens. If I had kids that age, I wouldn’t be vaccinating them given the data we have at the moment. I would suggest that the risk is quite low, but I would also say the benefit is quite low as well.