And Texas Caves In
The last bastion of sanity has jumped on the "stay at home" bandwagon. They just sent me an email that they have closed all state parks to save the 1% who may die from the dreaded super virus. Texas...
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flyflotr wrote:False information is rampant. A little research will show that deaths from COVID-19 are not concentrated in those under the age of 40. It is actually the exact opposite, deaths are concentrated in those over 65.
If it was your parent, child or other relative that died you may or may not feel different about protecting those near you. A large percentage of deaths are below the age of 40. Death rate would have been much higher if the curve had not been elongated allowing everyone access to health care.
Children especially are not dying due to COVID. According to the CDC, if you use February 1 as the start date 4038 children aged 14 and under have died in the US. Of that group, only two of those deaths are attributed to COVID. For comparison's sake, 69 of those deaths were from influenza. The big concern with children is not that they will become seriously ill from COVID, rather it is that they can become asymptomatic carriers and infect the more vulnerable older population.
