If you look again at what I said I was not "dismissing a possible reason because it doesn't fit a narrative" as you say here. I said, "Unless you are getting educators I would not expect it to be school reopening since kids are rarely affected and more rarely affected enough to hospitalize." I am correct in saying kids are more likely to be asymptomatic than adults. And whether they are asymptomatic or symptomatic, they are rarely affected enough to be hospitalized. In this case, I was commenting to a doctor that works in a hospital about the cases he is seeing. Therefore, I was supposing that the possibility a school link was the cause of the increase would not be due him seeing school aged children in the hospital but would make sense if he was seeing educators that were infected due to working in schools.cc_ag92 said:
I was attempting to discuss the possibility that high school kids can be infected, symptomatic, and contagious, which means that schools opening can impact the rate of illness amongst people who seek hospital care. That possibility should be examined as we seek to open schools and businesses across Texas. Let me spell this out for you. I'm not implying that we should not open schools or businesses. I am an advocate for researching why things happen, not dismissing a possible reason because it doesn't fit a narrative.
I know your point is that it doesn't matter why. Open it all up.
Could someone please find a way to deliver this message to Sylvester Turner and Lina Hidalgo?RandyAg98 said:
This thing's all but over in Houston.
I think that can occur at any age even an infant. I don't think it is as likely with a younger person as with an older person merely because it appears the viral load in children is typically lower resulting in less symptoms and less infectiousness. But that doesn't mean I think it couldn't happen multiple times. Absolutely there is a risk of teachers becoming infected from their proximity to their students in the classroom.cc_ag92 said:
I apologize if it sounded like my most recent post was referring to you as dismissing the possibility. I honestly was trying to have a conversation with you.
My original reply to you was: "At what age do you think "kids" become old enough to be affected? I'm not talking about hospitalizations, just sick with symptoms, since you brought that up.
Or, bear with me... could some of the adults in the schools be affected and hospitalized? I know it's popular here to act like that's impossible, but in one of the districts near me, high school kids are getting diagnosed fairly often, with symptoms. It seems like they could transmit to their teachers (who are also getting diagnosed). I don't know of any hospitalizations, but to dismiss it as impossible just doesn't seem reasonable."
DadHammer jumped in and wrote "The point is we can't shut down the country anymore. Teachers at risk should stay home. The rest of everyone else has to get back to life and work. We are killing our economy and other deaths will dwarf covid deaths.
That's the point. Kids and young adults are at less risk than the flu. It's time to get back to life."
My frustration was with him interjecting his well-known opinion which actually had no bearing on the discussion I was seeking to have with you regarding the age at which kids become old enough to transmit the virus.
I was just looking at those! It's hard to reconcile those numbers with Harris County's endless "Code Red." It's dishonest and misleading! I think our local Houston area leaders are creating confusion by continuing to push their everyone should still be at home agenda.RandyAg98 said:
For Houston, this thing is wrapping up.
LINK
DadHammer said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/daily-cumulative-covid-19-positive-cases-for-greater-houston-area/
Average daily infections have fallen off a cliff. Down to 373/day from the high of 2,366.
Time to open up 100%.
DadHammer said:
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/daily-cumulative-covid-19-positive-cases-for-greater-houston-area/
Average daily infections have fallen off a cliff. Down to 373/day from the high of 2,366.
Time to open up 100%.
dermdoc said:
Agree. And goalposts are not being moved based on science or medicine. Goalposts are being moved based on politics and money. And usually those are the two things that cause goalposts to move. And they are inextricably connected,
Hospitals are getting paid for reporting deaths as covid deaths which leads to over reporting. There is an obscene amount of money to be made off of widespread vaccines which may or may not be necessary.94chem said:dermdoc said:
Agree. And goalposts are not being moved based on science or medicine. Goalposts are being moved based on politics and money. And usually those are the two things that cause goalposts to move. And they are inextricably connected,
Can you explain the money part of that statement?
dermdoc said:Hospitals are getting paid for reporting deaths as covid deaths which leads to over reporting. There is an obscene amount of money to be made off of widespread vaccines which may or may not be necessary.94chem said:dermdoc said:
Agree. And goalposts are not being moved based on science or medicine. Goalposts are being moved based on politics and money. And usually those are the two things that cause goalposts to move. And they are inextricably connected,
Can you explain the money part of that statement?
And I believe democrats want the fear to continue to help them win elections which further advances their other agendas and rewards dem contributors.
