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> better ventilation legislation Why worry about ventilation and masking - particularly in schools - when one could spend that time looking at data showing who

> better ventilation legislation Why worry about ventilation and masking - particularly in schools - when one could spend that time looking at data showing who is actually at risk, and how to protect them. Spoiler: for this pandemic at least, the risk group simply isn't healthy children. Or indeed healthy young adults. Or maybe even anyone healthy under say 45[0] Our 8 year old had a PCR-confirmed Covid infection three weeks ago, as far as we know that's the first case in our immediate family. He's not vaccinated. For him, it represented a four-hour headache. No fever, no sore throat, no cough. He's finally been allowed to go back to school this week. [0] https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

sofixa 5y ago
What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Or everyone those children will run into, like parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, etc.? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment. And that's a severely limiting factor on how much Covid a health system can bare - in many countries that was stretched to and beyond it's limits. Now thankfully the latest variants are much more benign so that's not really a serious risk, for now.
- logifail 5y ago
  > What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment. Isn't this why we developed vaccines? To reduce the risk of serious illness? "Every year around 600,000 people die in the UK. The Imperial College team estimates that if the virus went completely unchallenged, around 80% of people would be infected and there would be around 510,000 deaths. So, roughly speaking, we might say that getting COVID-19 is like packing a year’s worth of risk into a week or two. Which is why it’s important to spread out the infections to avoid the NHS being overwhelmed."[0] Once we've vaccinated a large proportion of the at-risk groups, then the risk of overwhelming the hospitals drops. Then life can, and should, get back to normal. [0] https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/how-much-normal-risk-does-covid-19-represent/ https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/how-much-normal-ri...
heavenlyblue 5y ago
Anecdotally I am a 30 year old male who is usually only ill for about a day or 2 every year. I had COVID for a couple of days and then a week later after recovery a started getting this super-dry cough. This stayed with me for 2 months, first of which was so bad I could barely sleep until I got a codeine-based cough syrup. On the other hand I was also considering what our politicians did to the society keeping them locked up in their rooms and not training their immune systems on a regular basis which usually happens with normal interaction.

sofixa 5y ago

What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Or everyone those children will run into, like parents, siblings, grandparents, friends, etc.? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment. And that's a severely limiting factor on how much Covid a health system can bare - in many countries that was stretched to and beyond it's limits. Now thankfully the latest variants are much more benign so that's not really a serious risk, for now.

logifail 5y ago
> What about the teachers and all other staff at the school? Even if the majority of them are healthy and under 45, some won't be and would require hospital treatment. Isn't this why we developed vaccines? To reduce the risk of serious illness? "Every year around 600,000 people die in the UK. The Imperial College team estimates that if the virus went completely unchallenged, around 80% of people would be infected and there would be around 510,000 deaths. So, roughly speaking, we might say that getting COVID-19 is like packing a year’s worth of risk into a week or two. Which is why it’s important to spread out the infections to avoid the NHS being overwhelmed."[0] Once we've vaccinated a large proportion of the at-risk groups, then the risk of overwhelming the hospitals drops. Then life can, and should, get back to normal. [0] https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/how-much-normal-risk-does-covid-19-represent/ https://wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/how-much-normal-ri...

heavenlyblue 5y ago

Anecdotally I am a 30 year old male who is usually only ill for about a day or 2 every year. I had COVID for a couple of days and then a week later after recovery a started getting this super-dry cough. This stayed with me for 2 months, first of which was so bad I could barely sleep until I got a codeine-based cough syrup. On the other hand I was also considering what our politicians did to the society keeping them locked up in their rooms and not training their immune systems on a regular basis which usually happens with normal interaction.