Bottoms up!

Who says romance is dead!

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More consequences of lockdown. They haven’t even got the pub to look forward to. Most of them anyway.

What those who suggest we are over-reacting to C19 because it is no worse than flu don't even just get the comparative death rate wrong. They forget we have lost over 100,000 despite all the lockdowns and other control measures. Which we don't do with flu.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Just to make sure we are clear. Most kids don’t have COVID, they don’t carry it around with their homework books.

But most children who become infected with the COVID-19 virus have no symptoms, or they have milder symptoms such as low-grade fever, fatigue, and cough. Early studies suggested that children do not contribute much to the spread of coronavirus. But more recent studies raise concerns that children could be capable of spreading the infection.

Though the recent studies varied in their methods, their findings were similar: infected children had as much, or more, coronavirus in their upper respiratory tracts as infected adults.

The amount of virus found in children — their viral load — was not correlated with the severity of their symptoms. In other words, more virus did not mean more severe symptoms.

Finding high amounts of viral genetic material — these studies measured viral RNA, not live virus — in kids does not prove that children are infectious. However, the presence of high viral loads in infected children does increase the concern that children, even those without symptoms, could readily spread the infection to others.