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Originally Posted by Nov3
Last I checked 'all humans' are suspectable to this virus. Children are not immune to this nor are 'all' children resilient to beat this virus. It's rather ignorant to subject them to other carriers. I do not consider it an exception to allow daycares to stay open. No way I want my grand kids to be open targets to receiving it.
My boss has two kids, we are already setting up nanny to privately attend to them. So he can do his job. The less contact with others during this time...the better.
The 'undue hardship' would be visiting your kid on a ventilator. Think about that next time before engaging a flippant statement
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All are susceptible but children are as likely to get CV as the flu.
144 children died from the flu this year already. Just "1" 12-year old died from CV in Georgia.
from CDC's website -
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
COVID-19 in the United States indicates that fatality was highest in persons aged ≥85, ranging from 10% to 27%, followed by 3% to 11% among persons aged 65–84 years, 1% to 3% among persons aged 55-64 years, <1% among persons aged 20–54 years, and no fatalities among persons aged ≤19 years.
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I think their data is 1 week old)
Daycares keep their potentially CV carrying kids away from their parents or at-risk grandparents.
A large majority cannot afford a nanny to watch their children so daycare is the best option.
Also, when you force over 100 million people to not work, including low income workers, or lay them off they're not very happy about it. Let's say out of the 100 million 35% are parents. So 35 million working parents to be conservative.
Unfortunately, we already know there's some bad & evil parents out there who abuse their kids. You've seen it on TV news and online. Let's say it's a low number like
one-half of 1 percent. That means there's 10-20,000 parents out of that 35 million who are the worst of the worst to their kids. Verbally and physically just mean.
I was told by a mother that daycares and k1-k6 can be sanctuaries for some kids who are not able to protect themselves. There's parents who do drugs, drink alcohol until drunk, their older teen sisters or brothers are on rec. drugs, etc. Plus
not all of today's parents watch or interact with their teens much anyway in any of our large to medium-sized cities. Kids under 12 are pretty close to their parents until they become a teen, the age where they are discovering popularity, what's cool, and parents are not cool to their peers. So, out with the parent, and in with the new teen friends.
Parents or the kids are mostly on their smartphones, video games, Netflix or multi-tasking something or have their kids playing with other kids or hanging out with other kids (if a teenager).
Where I am there's kids outside playing until 10pm since they're not in school. Not everyone lives in Mayberry or a 1950's type environment where 95% of parents are their friend. You can bet this will be on a Law & Order SVU episode.
Someone else just informed me the suicide rate spiked during the Great Depression. 40,000 people killed themselves in 1937. Shutting down the economy will KILL people. Some adults with families just don't want to live in mediocrity. The govt;. closing their business and no return date does just that. I recall the suicides during 2009 of a few families California.
$1,000 checks sent out 1-2x does not help the people who make $10-$20k a month and have employees and debts. The govt. will miss certain segments of the population.
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