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I don't think it does anything to help in the fight against COVID, but it does highlight potential unanticipated adverse effects of COVID mitigation measures --

• nkozyra 5y ago
  > what's going to be the impact on the immune systems of kids that end up being "socially-distanced" for N years? Do you have kids? They're ... pretty good at getting germs, masks/social distancing or not. When they get exposed to a pathogen is largely luck anyway. Nobody's in a sterile environment here. These kids are touching/licking stuff, picking noses, rubbing eyes, you name it.
  • dilap 5y ago
    No kids yet; appreciate the comment -- your perspective + the sibling comment make me think my concern was probably unwarranted.
• tkahnoski 5y ago
  From what the first 5 weeks of my son returning to school in person, very little. Even with required masks the common cold is still making its way through his classroom. We know this because each kid basically is out for a day to get tested for COVID than comes back. So instead of ten kids getting sick all at once, it's progressing through one or two at a time. Our current measures are blunting the spread of germs but by no means have we managed to hit a 'sterile' environment where there is no spread.