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Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

Numbers are very quickly rising. There is no hysteria. Only facts.

They did rise and now they are falling again...and the positivity rate in DC has not exceeded just over 3% since June...you can see a direct correlation between the days there was a high number of cases and a high number of tests- so yes, it absolutely is hysteria when data is looked at without any context. That or stupidity- take your pick. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/district-of-columbia

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An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

There’s no conversation to be had here with you if you feel more than a quarter of a million lives gone, with hundreds of thousands more projected, are not worth noting.

i dont think either of you are really trying to have a conversation.

Fair point.

I think one death is very sad, like the death of the girl in OP. With so many since March attributable to Covid, responding by taking collective action makes sense to me.

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Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

Numbers are very quickly rising. There is no hysteria. Only facts.

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An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

There’s no conversation to be had here with you if you feel more than a quarter of a million lives gone, with hundreds of thousands more projected, are not worth noting.

i dont think either of you are really trying to have a conversation.

Anonymous wrote:That young hockey coach dude OD'd, he didn't die of COVID?

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An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

There’s no conversation to be had here with you if you feel more than a quarter of a million lives gone, with hundreds of thousands more projected, are not worth noting.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

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Anonymous wrote:75 million people under age 18 in the US. If they all get Covid, with even a 1% death rate, that's 750,000 people.

What you are really saying is you aren't worried because your family won't be one of the affected ones. So you assume.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

Everyone should be worried about saving themselves and other.

Not pp but this seems a bit extreme wouldn’t that mean we all just stop driving because it is so risky to each other? There has to be some cost benefit analysis. I worry that large groups of kids are far more likely to be worse harmed by school closure than by covid. It doesn’t seem to be a very rational decision right now.

Driving isn't comparable to COVID and if you were responsible about covid, like we are you'd be driving a lot less too.

Many people have gotten sick and died. Many more will continue because of attitudes like yours. One child dying is one to many.

define child?

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Anonymous wrote:75 million people under age 18 in the US. If they all get Covid, with even a 1% death rate, that's 750,000 people.

What you are really saying is you aren't worried because your family won't be one of the affected ones. So you assume.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

Everyone should be worried about saving themselves and other.

Not pp but this seems a bit extreme wouldn’t that mean we all just stop driving because it is so risky to each other? There has to be some cost benefit analysis. I worry that large groups of kids are far more likely to be worse harmed by school closure than by covid. It doesn’t seem to be a very rational decision right now.

Driving isn't comparable to COVID and if you were responsible about covid, like we are you'd be driving a lot less too.

Many people have gotten sick and died. Many more will continue because of attitudes like yours. One child dying is one to many.

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Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.

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Anonymous wrote:75 million people under age 18 in the US. If they all get Covid, with even a 1% death rate, that's 750,000 people.

What you are really saying is you aren't worried because your family won't be one of the affected ones. So you assume.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

Everyone should be worried about saving themselves and other.

Not pp but this seems a bit extreme wouldn’t that mean we all just stop driving because it is so risky to each other? There has to be some cost benefit analysis. I worry that large groups of kids are far more likely to be worse harmed by school closure than by covid. It doesn’t seem to be a very rational decision right now.

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Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.