Essentially, I'm an asthmatic. During the bushfires, I couldn't breathe through the plumes of smoke so I obviously spent some time off school. Now, with the coronavirus issue, I feel like a sitting duck at school just waiting for some snotty-nosed asshole to infect with a disease that has a higher potential to kill me rather than my friends. The threat right now isn't high enough to really take time off school or anything like that and I'm actually a bit conflicted with how to approach this situation. I live and go to school in the Illawarra NSW, so I'm under an hour away from Sydney and close to neighbouring schools with confirmed cases. With a population of over 1,000 students at my school, it wouldn't be a surprise to anyone that some kid caught the virus from the trains going to and from Sydney. I also have friends who have asthma who are concerned too. How can I appropriately go about this situation?

By the way with my low attendance from the bushfires and other mental health issues I have to up my attendance in order to receive my HSC qualification, any more time off school without the school shutting down would mean I am risking my entire HSC.

Everything sucks. I can't even share vix inhalers with my friends anymore :/