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Re:Coronavirus: Elon Musk 'child immunity' tweet will stay o... by brink on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:31AM (#22655682)
They are also far more population dense than the US. Viruses love close contact.

Like I said earlier, I support slowing it down. But there is a balance.

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Re:Coronavirus: Elon Musk 'child immunity' tweet will stay o... by belltaco on Sunday March 22, 2020 @01:08PM (#22656550)
There are huge metropolitan areas in the US that are very dense, and work places and shopping is very dense, so is mass transit. Plus a lot more routinely commute every day for work more than 50 miles one way. People also fly and drive a lot betwen cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...

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