Sun Wukong
Kicker's, Inc. Superfan
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So these kids, they're humans, right? They have respiratory systems like adults do, right? Why are we shocked and / or questioning whether or not they can spread this virus like adults??
Because a significant portion of the population lied to themselves that kids were somehow magical beings that wouldn't catch/transmit the virus based on a handful of reports that showed lower incidence level in kids overseas. Despite every single one of those reports coming with the qualifiers of "This isn't an actual longitudinal study, so we can't say anything one way or another really," and "for the most part kids haven't been in their normal social circumstances through much of this, so who knows?" It was literally just a handful of unscientific observations that "the usual crowd" took as holy writ to advocate their rush to open schools. We've now seen outbreaks at multiple daycares and summer camps. Kids catch it. They spread it. Lying to ourselves to the contrary is pointless, although many will continue to do so.
This school thing is so bizarre to me. And it will be an epic failure. At least in Louisiana, more and more districts have delayed their opening at least a couple of weeks. Seems no one is in a rush to be the inevitable first failure in the experiment.