The data has been in now for a year and half that children do not significantly spread the disease. And we know this from data all over the world. We know it from Austria, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the U.K., on and on and on, including places like Sweden who kept their schools open, 1.8 million children, no masks, no social distancing, and no secondary impact from that. We know that teachers do not have a higher incidence in those settings of the infection compared to other careers, and we know that when cases occur, in schools they almost always seem to come in from the adults carrying them into the school, not from the children.
And that argument is over as far as I'm concerned, because no matter how often people insist the earth is flat, it's round, and the earth does not change it's shape, because more people keep insisting the earth is flat. So I'm not going to waste a lot of people's time playing that. If these people are refractory to fact, then they're hopeless.
The disease is not significantly spread by children. The risk to teachers is not high, it's low. It's a low risk environment. There is zero excuse for teachers to not teach in person. And there's a bigger issue ... that is worth saying, and that is that--
To me it's unconscionable that a society uses it's children as shields for adults. Children do not have significant risk from this illness. Are we a society--a civilization--where we are using our children, even if they did spread it, as shields? We're going to inject our children with an experimental drug that they don't have a significant benefit from to shield ourselves?
My role as a parent is to protect my children. My role is not, and I will never use my children as shields to somehow protect me. That's really just a heinous violation of all moral principles, in my view
In terms of ethical considerations, I really have to wonder about the ethics of a human subjects committee in an institutional review board, which has to approve all protocols, I'd have to worry about the ethical input into those people to design a clinical trial for vaccines on young children under five--who have extremely low risk from this disease--injecting these children with drugs. I think our society has fallen remarkably low--frightenly low--if that is the level we have sunk to.
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