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Yes, but you don't 'pass along' 'car accient death' to others.

COVID's 'danger' isn't so much it's individual lethality - it's that it's highly contagious.

'Young People' are active reservoirs of the disease, and who will pass it on to others.

It's why they have to obey social distancing etc. - even if it's not really going to be very dangerous to them.




> Yes, but you don't 'pass along' 'car accient death' to others.

Actually you might, if you were the dangerous driver, just not to very many others and it can't spread further than that.

And yes, that's a very good point about the risk for kids that's not often appreciated. That's one of the points I try to make people understand, along with the idea that vaccines aren't perfect (so you can't just immediately drop every precaution once vaxxed), etc.




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