I spoke with a tree service and landscaper in a Virginia beach town today. He is very frustrated because he is having trouble getting workers, because they are all happy with their Covid unemployment payments. This is strong Trump country, both small businessmen and the bar flies, and those in between.
There is a frightening new condition affecting young children who have recovered from the virus. Also, while mostly children do not get the severe cases adults have been getting, they can certainly pass the virus to other children who can then take it home to parents and elderly grandparents. Also, one can pass on the virus for days before you show any symptoms yourself. Until lots of testing and contract tracing can be done the risk is high.
The children I’ve heard of having a severe reaction to COVID-19 have Kawasaki disease. So just like adults, this underlying health issue exacerbates the virus. I’m not dismissing the severity of this but trying to keep everything in perspective.
As for children taking it home and passing it on to parents and grandparents: the most vulnerable need to take responsibility for diminishing their risk of exposure to COVID-19. Locking up the healthy to protect the less healthy is insane not to mention completely unsustainable.
Those people reveling in their unemployment payments are the same ones who will be whining at what the inevitable future brings. On social media the ones I see who bang the drum “we’ll all die if we go back to work” the loudest are young people who make more for not working than for working.