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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
No Whiteout the science is clear, open schools, malls bars anything and the disease spreads and more people die, you can debate the economics of it but not the science, it may be a price that has to be paid but that is irrelevant to the science, in the US right now opening schools is insane
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This isn’t quite correct.
Yes increasing any form of contact between people will raise the transmission rate of the virus
When the transmission rates exceed 1 (1 sick person spreads it to more than 1 other) then the virus spreads.
Scientists have found that children do not spread the virus as easily as adults therefore the increase in transmission rate is not comparable with things like the the flu and in a an area where Covid is controlled opening schools makes a lot of sense and science supports it.
In areas with High Rts you are just going to make the issue worse.