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(06-24-2020 12:24 PM)ODUCoach Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 12:17 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  No, kids spreading it amongst each other and to teachers and bringing it home is the concern. If we knew for sure that there was a reduced risk of infected children spreading the disease despite having no or mild symptoms then we would feel a lot better about things but we don't. And still there would need to be social distancing (good luck with that Kindergarten teachers). So basically what we'e doing.

There is no evidence that kids are spreading it. What does it mean to know "for sure"? We probably won't know anything "for sure" for 2 years, when we just might have enough data to come to real conclusions. Right now, we have to take the best information available to us, and that is, nowhere in the entire world does there seem to be examples of outbreaks that center around schools. So, it would seem, the best information would be that kids don't spread the virus. Why should the default position be, lock these kids in their homes, when there is no data to back that up?

Kids are absolutely spreading it. There's no question about it. Documented and verified. The question is if they spread it at the same rate as adults or at a lower rate. There are very few places in the world that we can look because everywhere minus Sweden because almost everywhere where schools have returned have been modified and if they're not testing the kids they don't know if they are the source of the cluster because they're typically not exhibiting symptoms. With pretty much every other respiratory disease known to man the answer would be, yes of course kids can spread the disease. In fact they're more likely to spread it because you can't get them to social distance and they use the back of their hands as tissues. So without evidence otherwise you want to assume that this virus is the exception and put the most effective germ spreading institution into full swing? And yes there have been cases of clusters in schools but typically amongst the teachers, the kids aren't getting tested.