[glofish]

perhaps a little bit premature advice

college students are not at risk to begin with - I'd recommend waiting closer to mid summer

it might be the best time to attend college, fewer people enrolled, getting more attention from educators etc

[icedchai]

Professors, faculty, and parents are at risk, though. If corona infects a dorm it will rip through like wildfire. You'll have 100's of asymptomatic carriers overnight.

Then they go home for break...

[dredmorbius]

And staff, likely the largest cohort. And least privileged.

[scott_s]

Everyone is at risk from Covid-19. Younger people are at less risk, but they are still at risk, both from suffering a severe case, and from death.

[glofish]

As of April 17, in the age group of 15-24, 13 deaths were attributable to COVID-19, 37 to influenza.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/

If you are a college student the risk of dying of alcohol poisoning is higher than of COVID-19.

[CardenB]

But how many people had COVID vs influenza?

It doesn’t list case fatality rate, so your argument is just like everyone who says “the flu is deadlier than COVID”. Flu cases aren’t growing exponentially.

[scott_s]

If school was back in session, that number would probably be much higher. Remember, these are the numbers with the most massive pause on our economy and society that we’ve seen in our lifetime. Young people are not immune.

[glofish]

all the evidence points to an extremely strong age dependency on both infection likelihood, and most importantly on the severity of cases.

Nothing is ever 100% but if the rest of the population had the same characteristics as the youth there would be no reason for a lockdown to begin with. We are talking about death rates of 1 in 100K cases.

For young people the flu is far more dangerous than COVID-19. Of course for alarmists this is heresy that should be never talked about.