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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answers on this thread remind me of college.  You know the kids that were never allowed out or to do anything in high school, then they get to college on their own.  Who would have guessed they party hard, don't study, and end up dropping out during freshman year.

To answer the OPs original question, the family and I are out pretty much as normal.  We go to restaurants and stores.  The kids have had multiple play dates with different friends.  I wear a masks in stores since that is required, but we do not wear masks when we are outside exercising or walking.

The difference between the posters that don't do anything and me is that I can appropriately judge risk.  My family is low risk, but the in-laws are not.  So we don't hang out with them.  Your kids are more likely to be killed in a car accident than killed or seriously injured by COVID-19.  In 2017-18 187 children died from the regular flu.  We haven't hit those numbers yet.  So if you are scared of your kids dying you should be locking them in the house every winter.  Plus the overall rate for death is low.  When you look at the deaths from COVID-19 almost half the deaths are from 75+ year olds.  Another quarter of the deaths are 65-74 years old.  The next quarter of deaths are between 45-64 years old.  I imagine if you break that down there would be a much higher rate as you get towards 60.  My whole family has no real risk or fear of the disease.  I know people will say but what about the permanent lung damage... but that generally doesn't happen. [/quote]

The level of selfishness and entitlement of this poster is astonishing. [/quote]

+1000 People like this ruin it for all of us. We're doing our part, going without so we can get rid of this virus while they're living normally, taking advantage of our hard work and sacrifices. [/quote]

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