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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many will and for over 99% of them in will be no big deal, at all. Most of them will never even know they contracted it. Your niece's parents need to calm down.[/quote]

NP. You aren't keeping up. Increasing numbers of young adults are sick enough to be hospitalized -- it was increasing numbers of both cases and hospitalizations among young adults that drove much of the Florida spike that's still going on. Sure, older people have higher risk overall, but don't be naïve enough to believe that young adults are "99 percent" likely to be fine. You also seem unaware how much is unknown about this virus, or that there are increasing reports of long-term organ damage. Anecdotal at present but increasing and being studied.

Also: No one wants to talk about viral load. Having people living together in close quarters is a great way to have them catch it with a higher viral load. That increases the likelihood that the case will be more dangerous.

Plus: We have NO precedent on which to base any expectations of how the virus will move through a college population. None. Colleges closed quickly before there was any campus outbreak that would give us an example of what could happen. So we're sending tens of thousands of students back as a massive, nationwide medical experiment.

If you're blithely willing to swallow the simplistic belief that "college age adults will be fine," well, great, risk your own kid's and family's health on that.

Don't come back at me snarking "Well, do we wait for a vaccine and perfect immunity?" I'm not saying that. I'm saying parents need to get MUCH more realistic about all this and about the risk to their young adults. It is not automatically "like a bad cold" nor should we assume that "they'll all get it, then be immune, and it's fine." You do not know. More importantly, the best researchers and doctors Do. Not. Know. Wake up at least to the reality that your child could be fine or could get seriously ill.
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