It would be nice to believe that, but every time I hear someone say this the next day on the news there is the announcement of another person in their 20's who had no underlying problems that dies from it.
No, it is not. This post is so ignorant as to be disgusting.
Death isn't the only concern - quality of life matters, too, and long-term health issues are appearing among many of the younger people infected that might be permanent (renal damage, lung scarring, etc.).
You don't have to get outraged because he's sharing facts. What he's saying is correct, sure they are outliers but they are few and far between. You can look at the death distributions and see there is an obvious age correlation. Swine flu was more dangerous to college kids than this disease is. There's also no evidence to support that cancellations like this actually have any impact on the spread of the virus. As we've seen all over the country young people are gathering in mass whether we have school or not. The virus spread when we were in full lockdowns.
not to mention asymptomatic students being disease vectors, the teachers/support staff not being "young", etc
Pure garbage
You can facepalm me all you want. What evidence do you have that these measures have any impact on the spread of the disease? You think all of these 18-22 year olds are just going to sit at home for the next year until it's safe to go outside. Of course they won't, they'll be partying, protesting, and working. We didn't stop the spread even when we were all in massive lockdowns. That's because the goal was never to stop the spread it was to slow it to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed.
That's a very reasoned response. You acting outraged and posting a poop emoji doesn't make you right. What is your measure for when it is safe to go back to school? I'd love to hear it. What impact can you point to that shutdowns had on the spread of the virus? It's easy to act outraged and not discuss facts but it's not how adults make tough decisions.
Teacher unions around America are talking about possible reactions to being forced to return to work in hotspots. Unions will support one another. Expect huge walkouts if this happens.
but will they have proof that football will have any impact at all on the disease?
I refuse to debate with people who remain willfully ignorant.
there are quite a few out there. with very few exceptions, no one is meeting these measures
That is the attitude of a child. You are convinced that you are right without really making any points at all. I'm open to a discussion, I'm sorry you aren't. I thought this was a message board where people expressed opinions and sometimes even shared facts. There are tons of doctors who agree with what I'm saying so you apparently believe all of them are ignorant as well.
.5% of the people in my county are infected with the disease. Yet i'm in a hot spot for the virus. It's fair to attempt to strike a balance between reopening and staying closed and consider both the risk of opening verse the risk of not opening. You can't do that if the discussion just leads to people jamming their fingers in their ears and saying you want everyone to die. Certainly it's something that should be decided on a locality level because the risk is different within different areas of individual states.
there are plenty of experts who know what the hell they are talking about who think it is a really bad idea to open up schools, etc. there is a ton of literature out there discussing all of the questions you keep asking. i would suggest listening to them.
Shutdowns work. Look at Germany. Germany is probably going to have fans in soccer stadiums before we have fans at any sporting event in the near future.
