^ That's a lot of very dramatically written stories for sure. But all of those articles, replete with hyperbole, are spinning cherry picked stats that ignore important population spread and actual death count data.
Here are the simple, unvarnished hard numbers as reported by the CDC:
Number of deaths in the U.S.: 129,811
Number of deaths under 14 years old: 58
Number of death under 24 years old: 342
The numbers are what they are. Now yes every life is precious, but in a nation of 330 million people those under 24 death counts are stunningly low. We can't live being afraid of every remote possible problem or freak bad luck. Over the same period the flu killed a lot more young people than COVID did and we didn't shut schools down for that. Shit more kids died in car accidents this year than they have from COVID, yet we still drive them to school and activities.
So again rational people need to keep their heads, become informed and then use that information to make decisions that work best for their families and situations.



You should also be wary of any false assumption that you are following the science any more than anyone else because there are stunningly divergent views as to what the "science" is re: COVID.



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