Ping.
Your solution of fining schools for permitting sick kids in class is not going to do anything to limit infection. Prior to showing symptoms, the child is contagious. The virus is airborne. The virus lives on surfaces for a day or more. So by the time the infected kid is showing symptoms, she has already infected others she has close contact with or who come in contact with the lunch table in which she shed the virus.
To me the answer to how many kids are worth sacrificing for the economy and convenience of adults is zero - but I am a child loving, human life loving wacko. Public health practices call for social distancing to stem the spread of contagious disease. That would mean closing the virus factories known as public schools and day cares or parents going out of their way to find a less risky environments for their kids for this winter. That is not going to happen because parents are busy pretending there is little risk in this flu when the truth is, they do not know what the risk is because there is no valid data being collected on infections, deaths and permanent handicaps from the flu. So they are just playing teeee veeee dummies and not doing their own research and analysis of the situation.
The deaths assigned to the flu is hugely under reported. They get away with this by calling deaths due to “underlying” conditions rather than assigning the death to the flu. So a kid who has diabetes and who would survive fine under normal circumstances into adulthood, will be too weak to live through the swine flu virus infection. The death cert. will show the cause of death as diabetes. But what is really the cause of death? Swine flu! Swine flu sets the immune system into an ineffective frenzy and secondary bacterial infections are common in dead and damaged flu victims. They assign the cause of death to the infections that beset the body of the flu victim.
This virus is “hitting the young hard” because we have decided their lives are not worth protecting for this school year. Whereas we live and work in environments that are not full of people slobbering on each other, their hands, toys and tables, kids are in environments that could be called flu factories. That is why it is killing the young more than older generations. We essentially targeted the kids for contracting the disease increasing their risk of, suffering, permanent physical damage and dying.
On purpose or by accident we are concentrating the virus in families - children and caretakers, aka, breeders. We do not protect kids and families anymore.