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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 part of the risk equation you left out is how your choices impact others so while you may not be at great risk - you could contract it and spread it to someone who is at greater risk or to someone who is low risk but for some unknown reason gets a severe case and that spreading by you or anyone else you share it with has consequences for the whole of society.  That’s why you are a horrible person because you only think in terms of yourself. [/quote]

You really don't get it.  I understand the risk to myself and others.  I am the one following guidelines from the CDC and VDH.  You are the one that does not get it.  I never saw anyone from CDC or VDH tell us to shelter in place until there is a vaccine.  Can you show me an article that states that?

The whole point of the shutdown was to flatten the curve not eliminate the virus.  You really need to learn how to better understand risk and not just be scared of what you see on the news that sensationalizes topics for ratings.  Let me guess, when you see a shark attack you get scared and tell your family they can never go to the beach even though shark attacks are extremely rare.  Do you also hunker down in your pa ic room when you see lightning?[/quote]

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