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Verrerogo 21 points ago +21 / -0

Deeply stupid apart from horrifying. Any transmitting has already happened when the people live together. Separating them is no use. The horse has left the barn. This virus is very transmissable; that is the point of all the distancing even outdoors. So it's obvious that everybody in a home has been exposed. Exactly how they react depends on age and many personal factors of immunity and general health.

The Queen meant, if you can't visit your family who don't live with you that will be painful. She was making an analogy. I hope.

It is this other guy, from WHO, who is talking about the nightmare that can come from universal testing. What do you do with that information? Tell people where they can and can't go, and live?

Sending children into the countryside because their home in the city is under bombardment isn't stupid. This is stupid.

And now the virus is playing out, anyway.

And now there are effective treatments for it.

And many of the tests are wrong anyway!

This is the "robust" testing and contact tracing.

This is a very troubling video.

We are not a herd of prize cattle, to be biologically managed.

It is too stupid for words, both biologically and socially.

THIS DISEASE DOES NOT AFFECT CHILDREN, SO WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?

There are very few cases of children getting it.

As the virus recedes, people nobody ever thought about, who were thrown into the spotlight by this virus, will be forgotten again. But they may be reluctant to leave the spotlight. They may be full of ideas, to stay interesting and in charge of things.

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LonelyLadypedeSF_CA 11 points ago +12 / -1

Obviously, you've had a little too much to think, bud ✋

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AtariArtist 2 points ago +2 / -0

Transmission from kids to adults? I know elderly in the older areas of town have been wary of kids coming into the grocery stores in the retirement communities. Anyone who has had to deal with kids in day-care know what petri dishes they can be.

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Verrerogo 1 point ago +1 / -0

So you isolate grandma and visit her on Skype. You leave Junior with his parents. If three generations live together, will grandma get sick and maybe die? Yes, she might. This is not an easy situation for the old. And "old" can mean over fifty. If you have other health problems.

These flus sweep through and the worst ones, and this is a bad one, finish off people who had other things wrong with them but who might have lasted longer, without this additional disease.

It is still being learned about. It has just been discovered to cause excess blood clotting, and that is a big part of how it kills.

There is a LOT of recovering from it. Even the old don't all die of it.