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2/ We are talking abt how to send kids to school— indoors, crowded together—amidst a pandemic w/ 50,000 new cases per day; maybe 10x more undetected? Instead of putting 100% of that energy toward stopping this epidemic, we are assessing how to gamble w/ our kids’ health?
Hi Abraar, Our kids will be fine. Sweden never closed day-care/primary schools, with zero COVID19 deaths among 1.8 million children ages 1-15. So, less risk than annual flu. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/c1b78bffbfde4a7899eb0d8ffdb57b09/covid-19-school-aged-children.pdf …
Focusing on deaths misses the potential long term health effects this could have on our children w/ a novel virus that we are still learning about. To me, less about whether kids die; more abt how we are failing so badly, we justify children getting infected “bc they don’t die”
Dear Abraar. I have hesitated to reply, as your response stunned me. Hundreds of US kids die from flu. Now schools should close due to potential unknown long-term post-COVID19 effects? Plus, education is key to long-term mental/physical health, especially for working class kids.
We’ve been much less fortunate here in US. Quite few children have already died from it and many more now have permanent health issues.
Sweden has never had the number of infections as the United States! People are suffering and *IF* they do not die, they are left with permanent damage to their brain (cognitive functions) and lungs. No ones knows enough about this disease to use children as sacrificial lambs.
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