Kids Can Catch COVID-19, Can Pass It On To Others, Can Get Seriously Ill, And Can Definitely Die

[sheshe2]

As confident as some may be in the safety of reopening schools, this does not seem to square at all with the information we’ve seen on COVID-19.
By Mark Sumner

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There’s to be no national coordination of testing, no unified system of case tracing, no national mandate on masks, and no suggestion of providing states with any guidance on addressing the still-increasing number of cases. Once you’re content to drown, is there really any reason to measure the rising tide?

Of course, Trump doesn’t intend to go down alone. And his basic inflexibility means that once he has said something, he never even considers the option of changing his mind. So it’s perfectly understandable that in a Wednesday briefing, Trump absolutely declared his commitment to reopening schools and plopping children into closely-packed chairs. That includes his own son and his grandchildren, though of course, none of the above actually attend a public school. In expressing his commitment to experimenting on kids, Trump went through and entire set of talking points about children’s inability to catch COVID-19 or to transmit the disease to others—talking points that are 100% wrong.

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It is absolutely impossible at this point to make any firm indication about the rate at which children contract COVID-19, the ease with which they transmit the disease to others, or the potential for lifelong damaging health effects. The only thing that can be said with certainty is that they are all far too high to open schools.

Opening the schools is inviting not just thousands of deaths among children, but tens of thousands of deaths among eachers and families. More than that, it means exposing millions of children to an infection that can leave them gasping for breath for the rest of their lives, or living with damage to their heart, kidneys, or most any other organ.

Much more https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/kids-can-catch-covid-19-can-pass-it-others

[LizBeth]

1. When did we decide kids could not get it? I never heard that until recently.

[uponit7771]

4. Devos was saying they can't spread and Trump was conflating "easily" with at all during a presser

[LizBeth]

5. Is it really true that kids can't easily get it? I would never believe that one either. Now, I get

they tend to be nonsymptematic more than other groups but it does not make sense to me that kids are less likely to get it. And that it does not hit them as hard, or they rarely die. But, I figure they are not protect any more than a cold or flu if they are healthy.

Thanks for the information.

[uponit7771]

6. There's little data on that cause America's CDC is run by a straight asshole Red Don ass licker ...

... Redliner or whatever.

There has been no exposure rate comparisons for instance 1000 kids 11-1 constantly around the globe get it at this rate or 12 - 21 get it at this rate.

We do know massive amounts of kids in day care of caught it in Texas and Florida .. Florida 31% of all kids who have been tested have it and that's a massive number.

The transmission issue isn't true for 11 - 21, they can pass just like adults

[LizBeth]

7. So, this is what I have been hearing and know, and nowhere in that is information suggesting kids

don't get or pass on.

Hence my confusion that we were even acting like that is a possibility.

Interesting. Thanks. Staying up with Trump and all he is doing in those world of ours is tiring.

[uponit7771]

8. "Staying up with Trump and all he is doing in those world of ours is tiring." 👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾 THIS!

... on this issue its a damn near part time job to stay tuned to the fucked up shit they're doing.

Like the case rates took a dip right?

Well, that wasn't because less people were getting infected it was cause the lack of quick turn around throughput in testing.

This is some horror movie shit

[la-trucker]

2. I know -- and the fucking Betsy DeVos needs to get that

by getting her mouth off Trump's ass.

[sheshe2]

3. Sadly they are fused together.