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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone's lives are important including the elderly and immune-crompromised.  Children are the future and we cannot afford to lose years of education until a vaccine is available.  We don't have any definite answer when we will have one.  People hope next year but that's not a sure thing.  Young people rarely die from this disease so it's not the end of the world to allow them or their parents to be exposed to it.  For the at-risk population and those known to have an active COVID-19 infection should be the only ones in quarantine.  Grocery delivery should be reserved for those in quarantine and should not be allowed for anyone else because right now you cannot schedule delivery because of all the paranoid people ordering groceries online.  People that care for at-risk individuals should also be quarantined (such as those that work at nursing homes) and allowed grocery delivery.  Aside from that, we should wear masks when inside buildings together, continue to be six feet apart, allow restaurants at 50% capacity.  Places where people breath heavily, which would spread the virus far should continue to be closed.  This includes churches where people sing, gyms where people breath hard while exercising, and indoor play areas like trampoline parks.

Children are the future of the country and they are at extremely low risk from the virus.  We should not disadvantage our future generations just so the elderly feel better.  The elderly can continue to shelter in place and be first in line for a vaccine.  They can continue to use Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, etc.  Online education is not as good as classroom instruction and the occasional technical problems make it even worse.  If this was a mass outbreak of some horrible childhood disease like Polio and we have no vaccine for it then I could understand keeping kids at home but it's not.  It has very minor effects on children and most kids don't even experience any symptoms.  Some kids will get sick and some may die and that's awful but some kids die from vaccines but we don't stop the use of them.

There has to be a balance between slowing the spread, protecting at-risk people, and keeping schools and the economy going.  You can't open up, business as usual.  You can't shut everything down for years.  You have to figure out a middle ground.  Elected officials in MoCo are doing a bad job leading and making hard decisions.[/quote]

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