CNN says it’s a “false claim”. But it’s not, not by any measure of its fatality. CNN takes of “viral load” which is irrelevant if the outcome is minimal or no symptoms
The figures for deaths by age show that just 5 of 49,607 deaths to end July were children under ten. That’s 0.01% of deaths. That’s pretty much the definition of “almost immune”. And we know that there are no known cases of children passing in the coronavirus to teachers.Therefore kids should be back at school.
But Facebook and Twitter deleted Trump’s post about children being “a,most immune” because they say it’s “misinformation”. It’s not. They are doing this because he’s Orange Man Bad.
The misinformation is actually the other way around. It is misinformation to suggest that children are as susceptible as adults. For that will delay children getting back to school, something which is needed for their mental health. Teachers are holding up banners saying “I can teach from a computer. I can’t teach from a coffin”. Ridiculous: there has not been a single case in the world of a teacher getting Covid from kids. So the misinformation is there, from the teachers (and Facebook and Twitter), not from OMB — at least in this one case.
We ought be working on facts. On the science. On the data. Which tells us the kids should be back at school.
