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by kbrwn 2025 days ago
If this isn't over by summer 2021 it's time to quarantine the olds an allow the rest of citizens to return to normal life. We gave it a year. we can't go on expecting younger folks to give up all social life, development, sex and so on so old people can sit on Facebook alone at home or in nursing homes.
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This could even work unless another genius governor sends covid patients straight to nursing homes, cough Cuomo cough

https://eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/alba...

The young and reckless are why it continues to spread. There have been numerous reports of frat parties and college keggers being super spreader events. They lack discipline.
Only 500 people have died of Covid in the under 24 crowd since Covid started.

They have virtually no risk and they don't crowd hospitals because their symptoms are minimal.

Maybe if the old people who are actually vulnerable to the disease stayed in quarantine instead of going to Starbucks...we could keep the economy going and keep deaths to a minimum and hospitals from overflowing.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

More "mature" person blames immature people acting immaturely. The only solution to that is time and experience...