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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1426318478861013001?s=19

I'm not really comforted by "the kids will probably be ok" arguments.  Why is that being accepted??

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Because as long as you are alive you make risk assessments.

The same way we let our kids get on the school bus even though a few die in bus accidents every year.

The same way we get in our cars and drive to work or to grandma's house for Thanksgiving or to Target even though 38,000 people die in car accidents in the U.S. Millions more are hospitalized from those accidents.

I don't think my neighbor has left her house except to walk or take a quick drive around the neighborhood for some fresh air and a change of scenery since March 2020.  She has judged the risk to herself and her household tp be high enough that not going anywhere makes sense.  [/quote]

I don't want to go down the side path, but I think we take unreasonable risks with some of the trucks on our roads and wish we'd value human life more.

For risk, I'm not just looking at deaths, which seems to be the only measure some people are looking at.  I just don't think we know the long term effects of this disease and there are indications that it may not be so simple/short.  My kids have long lives in front of them so any long term impact is a really big deal to me.[/quote]

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