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Why should a health 25 year old shut themselves away for some indeterminate time period in order to protect someone they don’t know?[/quote]

Because they're not psychopaths?[/quote]

Not to mention if you don't care about the lives of older Americans and those with co-morbidities, you might want to care about a generation of parentless children who will need support and assistance because you didn't want to be bothered to follow moderately burdensome public health guidance for a relatively short period. No one likes this, but we have to manage it as well as we can.[/quote]

dramatic ad hominem arguments like these deserve numbers and science to bring them back into reality.  define this "generation of parentless children" we should worry about. by the CDC numbers, 16,206 people ages 25-54 (an age range that may stilll have children) are counted in the current covid mortality numbers. all of these deaths are tragic. but that is not the same magnitude of deaths that your argument implies. of that 16k, how many are of vs with covid? how many had severe comorbidities? how much greater or lower than expected deaths has this event caused for that age range? how much impact do school closures really have on that number?

applying statistics and risk assessments to this situation does not belittle the tragedy of the individual deaths[/quote]

I wasn't aware that one stopped being a parent at 54.  You realize that there are plenty of people older than 55 who still have children under 18 right? And that many 18 to 25 year old rely on their parents for support? And even so, the numbers don't support the post I was responding to, which was that younger people shouldn't have to endure any restrictions on their liberty. The death rate is what is is now because of those restrictions. In addition, we are nowhere near done with all of this. [/quote]

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