You are right and you are being down voted for speaking the truth.
You both are pathetic. Go pay off your debt, dumbass, because it sounds like you're one step away from being one of the people that this complete idiot renewiltord is referring to.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You both are pathetic. Go pay off your debt, dumbass, because it sounds like you're one step away from being one of the people that this complete idiot renewiltord is referring to.
For what it is worth, the total COVID death count for under 18 in the US is 200. This includes children with serious risk factors eg cancer, immune disorders, etc
This is just a part of the picture (although it's a good number to see). You also need to know whether children spread the disease.
Not according to several studies shared by epidemiologists that are parents at my kids' school. The only place they saw spread from children was at schools in Israel early in the pandemic where kids were crammed close together when waiting.
There's less difference than their public policies might suggest. Reportedly lots of senior citizens in Florida voluntarily social-distanced themselves from everybody. The press reported on square dancing and packed beaches, but the anecdotes I heard were that vulnerable individuals were taking things very seriously (despite the lack of restrictions) and self-quarantining away from everyone else. Meanwhile, in SoCal,…
> Meanwhile, in SoCal, basically nobody followed the mask mandates and social distancing restrictions. Huh? I’m from SoCal and almost everyone wears masks here all the time, all shops require masks on entrances, so I’m not sure where this narrative comes from?
I've had multiple friends in LA say (around November-January) that people were basically ignoring the mask mandate and having a bunch of parties anyway. Perhaps it's different now; this is before the huge outbreak and lockdown.
> Lots of European countries kept schools open during most of the pandemic More like "SOME European countries kept schools open during SOME of the pandemic". And look at the state of Covid in the EU now, with infection rates climbing yet again.
France has had school open for much of the last year—when infections were increasing and decreasing. It doesn’t appear that schools are driving the infections.
The French schools my family attend were all on cohort models attending one week on, one week off, for context.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 and don't do this on HN.
My fault for reacting to someone calling me pathetic. Silly reaction on my part. I will delete if you will permit. I definitely periodically fall into these discussions and need to train myself out of them. Thanks for the cycle escape.
Appreciated. There's no need to delete—examples are helpful for learning and all we care about is improving things going forward.
You would be mistaken then. Government interventions like lockdowns and school closings were a very good response. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6531/eabd9338
So do you think Florida is lying and underestimating the number of COVID deaths to greater extent than California is, or the California is exaggerating the number of COVID deaths, or maybe that there's a difference in behavior between Floridians and Californians (maybe California had stricter laws but Floridians act more responsibly in terms of disease prevention). If you don't have such an explanation, and Californi…
There was no actual lockdown in any state in the USA, including California. There were instead these totally unenforced stay at home “orders” and mask “mandates” which people ignored with no consequences. It’s no surprise that the disease spread rampantly through all 50 states. I live in California and there was nothing stringent about the measures—while many people voluntarily followed them, they were routinely ignored by enough people to make them worthless.
Teachers' unions saw an opening and they took it. The fact that private schools in SF have been open for so long safely with no public schools open should tell you all you need to know. I, for one, love it. When you're on this side of the wealth spectrum, an expanding gap lifts your ship and sinks the other guy. And I'm all for the pursuit of sheer greed. If other people want to hamstring themselves for whatever reas…
Please don't take HN into flamewar like you did in this thread. It's basically vandalism and most certainly not what this site is for. Seriously not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Understood. No real reason to just come here to gloat. Will not approach these topics in future.