I live in Maryland, high schools kids are already organizing unofficial practices themselves. Kids are getting together. For them to go to school and play sports isn't really going to change anything. Studies out of Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands show that under 20 is extremely low risk to the virus and extremely rare in passing it to an adult.
I guess you are right. Currently, our family is struggling with a close relative with Covid-19 and the effects of my other grandchildren with close contact. My wife and I (the grandparents) may be in quarantine by the end of the week.
What's a few people dying do for morale? Keep sending people to work unprotected. Need to produce those widgets so the boss can make his millions.
You’re missing my point.
If you don’t understand the difference between “kids hiding under their bed” and acting like nothing is wrong and things should go back to normal for the sake of morale, you’re even more stupid than it appeared earlier. Clowns like you are why PA just went back to 25%.
My 80 year old uncle has a tiny little arm because he had polio when he was a kid. Do you know what kind of affects the "unaffected" under 25 will have when they get older? Also, will Covid be considered a pre existing condition when trying to get affordable health or life insurance in the future for the younger generation?
All good man, I have 2 kids in PIAA sports and would love to see them play in the right circumstances.
Why so polar? There is a whole lotta real estate between throwing caution to the wind and hiding eternally under beds. We’re seeing what happens when we push back to normal too fast - back to square one. And now that herd immunity appears to be out of the equation, what next? Our society has shown a tremendous lack of discipline of late in dealing with this pandemic, and it only takes a handful of selfish knuckleheads to ruin everything for the rest of us.
Unless the structure of authority in Pa. is totally different than NY......The PIAA does not have the final word on when interscholastic sports will begin. The primary gate keeper is the governor, then the medical authorities (state board of health) and the State Education Department as well. All the PIAA is saying is "we" are staying the course, unless someone in authority steps in.
Other countries that opened their schools or never closed them didn’t have huge spikes. And Germany did a very large study on it and found it doesn’t spread in schools to children or teachers.
Herd immunity is definitely on the table, that is why NYC is not having a spike right now. Some reality:
If the antibodies wear off in as little as a couple of months, short of a vaccine and/or a legitimate treatment (hearing good things about stem cells btw), we’ll never reach herd immunity. More concerning is that some experts are theorizing that a second infection may be worse than the initial. Yes, we need to open back up, but we need to be FAR more responsible about it than we’ve done so far.
