Our headlamps have found gold! 37% less transmission in school!
Where will you spend yours?
Wait a second though. There's something off about this gold.
It's fool's gold.
✅ Kids are often asymptomatic.
⚠️Absence of child to staff transmission does not mean transmission in school is uncommon. We'll come back to this.
⚠️ Reference #5 says asymptomatic attack rate is only .7% within household, so we are to believe kids don't transmit.
So, we move sideways into that cave, and we see what that study says.
Ah, it's that time of year again. The pitter patter of children's feet. The laughter of high school students as they flirt with each other.
The coughs of their parents.
Is a Portable Air Cleaner (PAC) on a desk aimed at the wee ones' faces going to protect them?
TLDR? No. They need to be in a N95 or KF94 purchased from legit distributors, not from Amazon, and eat their food outdoors, spaced far enough away from their friends so as not get infected. Or use @sipmask and protein shakes at lunch in the cafetaria.
You need to teach them
about how it can take as little as one breath of uncleaned-air to get infected (100 virions study on my profile). How it can mess them up in terms of their entire body.
You need to have the "Birds and the Bees and Covid" talk, in other words.