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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That press conference wasn’t very reassuring.[/quote]

It disgusted me. It makes no logical sense to bother with tracing on the hospitalized male who tested positive, yet refuse to test segments of the population that likely would test positive. No, we will just send them home and pretend they are negative and not worry about their tracing.

And not one of those officials seem sympathetic to the patients at all. The one doctor was just smirking.[/quote]

Didn’t watch the presser - are they even contact tracing for this guy or nah? Sounds like he was out and about from last week until he was hospitalized this wk so I’m thinking they’d like to know where he works, if he went in, did he go places on the weekend etc?

Also different question — where was the AIPAC event? Was there a conference hotel? [/quote]

There is also a LOT of privilege being used here. For example, the Rockville people who, at first tried to have it concealed " travelled to an unknown location "  claiming privacy until Maryland Board of Health released it to the press that they had been on a cruise in Egypt and that one of them had visited a Nursing home in Rockville post return. The MD DOH released the name of that Nursing home as rightly they should.

Same should happen with the " individual " who was at CPAC and AIPAC who " later visited a school in PA. Given this person's travel and appearances it is likely a politician. I am not saying name the person, but come on.... be smart and post in press everywhere this person went .

Then, they should really shut down these conventions, political rallies and perhaps people over age 60 should not mingle in public , but stay home

Healthy children, teens, go to school.[/quote]

Ok, BUT could you please tell me what "healthy children" are??  Do my kids with a history of asthma qualify as healthy just because they aren't sick now?  Asthma has been mostly well controlled for a while, but the history is there.  Looks "healthy" most of the time.  Likely many other healthy-looking kids with underlying issues.  Do we not care about them?  Are we just writing off anyone with the generically-sounding, bland phrase "underlying health conditions?"

Get real.  Lots of kids are seemingly healthy most of the time but could be in trouble with this virus. Time to consider closing schools and/or other social controls to slow community spread - similar to the "herd" protection of vaccinating a population so that those more vulnerable individuals are protected.   Slowing the transmission of this virus benefits everyone.  Sitting around and waiting is just a bad idea for everyone.[/quote]

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