From: howddgrhol@yayoo.com   
      
   Opus the Penguin  wrote:   
      
   > Howard  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Anecdotally, I know a pediatric ER doctor who says she's seen a   
   number   
   >> of kids with severe cases, so kids can definitely have problems. I   
   >> don't know how the numbers compare to adults, and it seems like kids   
   >> definitely have better ability to fight off the life threatening   
   >> complications.   
   >   
   > For me, the theme for this virus has been, whatever I think I know,   
   > wait a month. If they (the sane people who seem to know what they're   
   > talking about) are still saying it's true, then *maybe* it's true.   
   > File it under fact for now, but check back in another month.   
   >   
   > Currently on probation are the ideas that kids are less susceptible   
   > and that contaminated surfaces aren't a major vector. Those things   
   > may be true but I'm still treating them as though they might not be.   
      
   I think it is clear that adults and kids and seniors don't react the   
   same way to infection, but it's far from clear how all of that plays   
   out, and there are a lot of other factors involved.   
      
   One thing that's indisputable but largely ignored in the current debate   
   is that there are over 50 million school kids in this country. Also,   
   they will still be crowding and hugging and wrestling and kissing and   
   stealing food off of lunch trays and smearing their hands in each others   
   faces every single day.   
      
   You can argue whether the risks are lower in a single encounter when   
   kids are involved. But the GOP wanting the government to mandate 50   
   million people getting together under these conditions (plus teachers   
   and custodians and administrators and cafeteria workers....) makes it   
   clear they adore big government.   
      
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