Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   Steel yourself Date:   7/27/2020 3:56:14 PM (updated 7/27/2020 4:29:47 PM)

First of all, this is nothing like the flu  There is a vaccine for the flu, and those kids that don't get it are the same parents who don't get their kids innoculated against childhood diseases.  

You are right, with respect to the flu it is far less dangerous to those under the age of 18.  That is a 100% certifiable fact that 80% of the deaths from the flu occur in people under the age of 65.  And according to the CDC as of a few days ago a grand total of 36 children under the age of 15 have died from this virus.  That's a 0.03% mortality rate on confirmed cases...not total cases....confirmed ones!!!!  CDC estimates that around 600 children under age 5 die from the flu each year.  Regardless of what causes the flu, it is far more dangerous to school age children and more of them will die from it and pneumonia than the Wuhan virus. So open the schools.

The reason nothing happened with H1N1 is that Obama didn't deal much with it, it didn't spread as quickly and eventually, it just petered out.

That is factually incorrect.  You are probably confusing the H1N1 with SARS and MERS, both of which did peter out, but were far more deadly than both H1N1 and the Wuhan virus.  The H1N1 infected over 60 million Americans and killed over half a million people worldwide.  In fact, it is still with us to this day and shows up every flu season.

You just go on with your drivel MM.  You are wrong and you have a handful of followers here that are also wrong.  And I still say, let the school districts decide what is right for them.  They are the ones that will have to deal with the consquences if they guess wrong.  

So as it turns out your fact free post is the actual drivel.  You would think by now Hound you would learn not to post things without doing your homework.  But I do agree that it should be the local school districts that should make the decision, but it should be based on the science and on the totality of the impact of continued school closings and not just rank emotional pandering about "saving one child" which is utter nonsense.  And that is where the media and people like you who deny the science are doing them a great disservice.