Anonymous
12/23/2020 14:06
Subject: "Children May Be Driving the Pandemic After All" - der Spiegel (kids "quite efficient at spreading")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Sigh. Some of us scientists have been telling you this for months. The reason is that children transmit the virus yet are often asymptomatic, and therefore exposures are not caught in time to stop community spread. Schools are accelerators of viral spread. Since children are not at high risk of Covid complications, hospitalizations and deaths caused by school spread occur among the most vulnerable among us in the community, outside of the school.
Except a lot scientists and public health experts haven't been saying that, and still aren't. Young children- particularly those in elementary school and daycare, do not seem to substantial sources of community spread. Older kids may be a different story, but not the <10 crowd.
No they haven’t, you just have selective hearing. Or maybe you only pay attention to the dumb ones, like the ones on Fox News maybe?
Anonymous
12/22/2020 22:17
Subject: Re:"Children May Be Driving the Pandemic After All" - der Spiegel (kids "quite efficient at spreading")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wonder which region decided to keep schools closed and public health restrictions in place. Really hard to tell here.
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/146/6/e2020027425
Yes, it is really hard to tell there, since those charts end before school started.
+1 This is the worst use a visual I've ever seen. It does not support the poster's point AT ALL. All over the south, numbers drastically decreased AFTER schools opened.
Link? Because I live in SC right now and our numbers keep increasing as they have brought elementary, then middle school students back in Greenville county. High schools start back face to face in January. It is like watching a train wreck.
It’s called a coincidence. Cases rose everywhere starting in late October, regardless of whether schools were open.
Anonymous
12/22/2020 22:16
Subject: Re:"Children May Be Driving the Pandemic After All" - der Spiegel (kids "quite efficient at spreading")
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wonder which region decided to keep schools closed and public health restrictions in place. Really hard to tell here.
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/146/6/e2020027425
Yes, it is really hard to tell there, since those charts end before school started.
+1 This is the worst use a visual I've ever seen. It does not support the poster's point AT ALL. All over the south, numbers drastically decreased AFTER schools opened.
Yep. Georgia even breaks their numbers down by age, and cases in kids dropped after school began. They started rising when Covid started rising among adults months later. Schools remain closed in my community, yet we have the same fall spike that is occurring everywhere else. Because it’s unrelated to schools.