The story behind the story about Trump's bizarre "Open the schools ASAP" tweet
Last night
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/trump-tweets-schools-should-open-asap-but-poll-shows-americans-arent-on-board/507-372457cd-d0ea-4e34-b5dd-118f2d0e55dc
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is doubling down on his calls to reopen schools in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, but recent polls show not everyone is behind that idea.
The president tweeted late Sunday night that "Schools in our country should be opened ASAP."
"Much very good information now available," Trump added, while tagging British political adviser and commentator Steven Hilton in his tweet. Shortly before Trump's tweet, Hilton had appeared on Fox News and discussed reopening schools.
Bypassing CDC and John Hopkins Trump not only goes to Fox News but goes to a third string FOX Sunday fill in guy who claims
"Can children infect others? Were constantly told to follow the science and the data, well, here it is" he said. "one study found quote even if children do get infected they are less likely to transmit the disease to other adults. We have not found a single instance of a child infecting parents"
Google "do children spread the coronavirus" and the first article is the one that these idiots are referring to:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/how-sweden-wasted-rare-opportunity-study-coronavirus-schools
But KI pediatrician and clinical epidemiologist Jonas Ludvigsson, who has published two review articles about COVID-19 in children, thinks tracing infected people’s contacts is of little use at this point in the epidemic. “The virus is so widespread in society that responsible people do not think it is a good idea to trace individuals. We only test symptomatic individuals. I agree with that,” he wrote in response to Science asking whether researchers were tracking school outbreaks
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“So far there have been no reports of COVID-19 outbreaks in Swedish schools,” citing “personal communication” from Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist, on 12 May. “This supports the argument that asymptomatic children attending schools are unlikely to spread the disease,” Ludvigsson wrote.
First thing that this idiot Hilton should have noted is that this is not a scientific argument but an unverified hypothesis, the kind of thing that it would be useful to build a scientific study around.
All they had to do is read one more paragraph and they would find that in fact there are outbreaks in Sweedish schools with large numbers of teachers getting the virus and many teachers dying from it.
However, a scan of Swedish newspapers makes clear that school outbreaks have occurred. In the town of Skellefteå, a teacher died and 18 of 76 staff tested positive at a school with about 500 students in preschool through ninth grade. The school closed for 2 weeks because so many staff were sick, but students were not tested for the virus. In Uppsala, staff protested when school officials, citing patient privacy rules, declined to notify families or staff that a teacher had tested positive. No contact tracing was done at the school. At least two staff members at other schools have died, but those schools remained open and no one attempted to trace the spread of the disease there. When asked about these cases, Ludvigsson said he was unaware of them. He did not respond to a query about whether he would amend the review article to include them.
The President of the US is making policy by avoiding experts and relying on weekend hosts on FOX that can't distinguish between an "observation" and a scientific study and fail to read to the end of an article to discover that the very promising idea in the meat of the article has in fact been completely discredited by a "brief scan" of news articles that report that not only can children spread the disease but that where "sheltering at home" was not followed teachers died.
This is a policy making machine that is not only not based by scientific inquiry but is a search to find and promote the thinnest "happy talk" from the most unreliable sources.
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In fact, you can extend that up to under 40 year olds, and actually even to under 50 year olds, as only above 50 year of age do you see an explosion in terms of death rates.
Here in Sweden we have had one death in the under 20 years of age cohort, a 4 year old with multiple comorbidities
these are the the official stats from Folkhälsomyndigheten, our state health agency
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa
and that is with all schools under high school level open the whole time
the youngest half of the country (so around 5.05 million people) has had a total of 21 deaths, almost all with comorbidities
Under 20 years of age 1 total death, and gain not a school age child, it was a 4 year old who had comorbidity
Under 30 years of age 9 total deaths (1 plus 8)
Under 40 years of age 21 total deaths (9 plus 12) <<< this is half our population
99% of all deaths have been over 50 years of age
97% over 60 years of age
89% over 70 years of age
66% over 80 years of age
We are having a large drop off of deaths now (there was a flat out false report a few days back that said we had the highest 7 day deaths per million rate in the world, which was pure rubbish, it literally tripled the rate from the actual one)
Also, our economy is going to get smashed like everyone else soon (as we are a large exporting nation and the global supply chain is all cocked -up for all nations) but Q1 GDP we barely dropped at all (0.3%), especially compared to most other advanced nations
there is so much disinfo out there, and people keep pushing it, including the big lie that going for herd immunity was and is our main goal and strategy when it NEVER was
See this link right below for a take down of that dodgy article and also the 'Sweden is going for herd immunity' tosh
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13463836
the stats from our official state health agency (I gave the link above)
deaths per day (avlidna per dag)
deaths by age group (our elderly care homes is where we truly fucked up, tragically so, as they have accounted for between 50 and 70% of the deaths per region, a topic I have went into depth on in multiple posts as to why, here is one)
The USA shows similar percentages for the younger cohorts
99.2% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 35 years of age and over cohort
97.5% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have come from the 45 years of age and over cohort
92.6% of all US CDC documented COVID deaths have from the 55 years of age and over cohort
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku
these numbers need updating (they are 9 days old, the CDC is slacking)
US deaths per age cohort as of May 16th, 2020
Under 15 years of age (61 million people in the US), 12 total documented deaths in that cohort. 7 of those deaths were of school age.
Under 25 years of age (over 104 million people in this group), 88 total documented COVID-19 deaths (12 plus 76)
Under 35 years of age (over 150 million people in this group, so getting near half the entire population) 551 total deaths (88 plus 463)
Under 45 years of age (over 191 million people) 1737 total documented deaths (551 + 1186)
in his sentence structure, but he leaves a trail to show how he builds his stupid argument!
GAWD, he's gotta' go! 
