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by scott_s 2251 days ago
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.
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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.