if that person is 18-22 years old, given the data, how is it irresponsible?

A 20 year old died of cv this week here in Victoria. Everybody is at risk, it’s just that the curve “favours” older people.

You know, like professors, admin staff, mature students, parents and grandparents, ...

500 children die of influenza in the US each year. COVID is far less of a threat to young people. We have to make tradeoffs and having kids in college and not at home with parents and grandparents is a good solution

The CDC estimates total deaths from influenza in 2019 was 34,200.[0]

173,000 people have died in the USA this year from Covid 19 and the toll is rising.[1] that’s more than the total number of cases (22,000) in Australia. We got 10% the population of the USA and 0.2% of the deaths.

With all due respect, the USA has the worst Covid 19 rates in the entire fucking world. It is a travesty. You guys can say what you like, but your plan is literally killing people.

And specifically to your point: Do you think kids teach themselves? Kids are part of families, kids are taught by adults, kids catch busses driven by adults, kids meals are cooked by adults. The death rate of kids is irrelevant. Since kids can still spread the disease, they should be isolated like everyone else.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

COVID-19 deaths per 1M population Belgium 857 Peru 796 Spain 612 UK 609 Italy 586 Sweden 573 USA 523

You have the highest absolute death rate and the 8th highest rate per capita. Do you realise your list is literally the list of worst hit countries in the world?

Look a bit further down... Australia 17.2, Vietnam 0.26, Thailand 0.84, New Zealand 4.5. Indonesia, with a comparable population to the USA but far more densely populated - and far poorer - is just 23.9.

The USA, richest country in the world, reserve currency of the world, has the 8th worse death rate in the whole world. That is vile. Meanwhile, your moron in chief is pointing to New Zealand and saying it’s out of control there because they had an “outbreak” of 9 cases. 9!

That’s roughly how many new cases the USA has every 18 seconds.

There is no excuse for what’s happened in the USA.

Was he obese? I only ask because many of the younger patients have comorbities that make them vulnerable to many diseases. And vaccines don't work as well for the obese either.

It doesn’t matter. The problem is that the people who don’t get sick, make other people sick.