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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus christ you guys are overdramatic.

[b]Im a public health nurse.[/b] As long as you teach your kids to wash their hands well (and regularly), to keep a respectable distance, and avoid personal contact they are perfectly fine to go out and see a few friends. What you need to avoid is large groups particularly in tight spaces.

People are panicing and acting like this is the end of the world. [b]We have these disease upticks literally every 2-3 years.[/b] It will last a few months until people learn more about the disease.

Locking your kids up does not do anything to help, denying them any social activities only makes it far more scary then it already is. [/quote]

You are misinformed. This is a disease that is more contagious and more deadly than the flu. It also causes a large number of asymptomatic cases which are also highly contagious - particularly in young people. Essentially teenagers can be walking virus bombs, unknowingly spreading the disease. In fact, epidemiological models are showing that most of the spread is due to asymptomatic cases.

Imagine that you let your teen, who hasn't been out at all, to hang out with some friends because it's a birthday ("just this one time, it's special, etc"). But one of the other kids unknowingly has the virus, but no symptoms. Then your kid gets it. And unknowingly spreads it to you who visits your elderly parents the next day before you get sick. Boom. 
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