At my local high school, there’s a bizarre “game.” Students get all sweaty, even bloody, and then jumped into huge piles on top of each other, like a giant, violent mosh pit. Such an absurd flaunting of social distancing in the most outrageous way dwarfs the Tides laundry Pods challenge in its stupidity. Yet local administrators have actually even encouraged the game. Even when schools were otherwise shut down altogether, this bizarre ritual persisted.
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And that’s exactly what kids need to do. Roll around on the ground and eat some dirt, run into each other, get sweaty and pile up, the kind of thing kids have done since a few hundred years before I was born.
Just how do you think herd immunity happens?
This is why kids of my generation were not as highly susceptible to things like the allergies we see today, we were not “protected” from the world around us. We rolled around in it. We got cut or scraped, wiped it off with our grubby hands, and kept on playing, or at the very most, slapped a band aid on it with our barely washed hands, and went back out to play.
Usually my band aids came off soon as the bleeding stopped, and I generally refused to put another one in its place as long as it had stopped bleeding.
I’ve never had any allergies, I’m not even allergic to poison ivy, I can still pull it up out of the ground without gloves on. I try to grab gloves these days, or at least wash my hands afterward...I don’t push my luck, I don’t eat it or stand in the smoke if I burn it...
This is what kids need to do, they’re just following their instincts to roll around in the dirt and expose themselves to the bacteria and so forth that allows them to develop their “herd immunity”...
I want to see every kid 3 years old and up doing exactly the same thing. Exactly as we have done since before this continent was “discovered”...
Let ‘em play.
I have no use for football, never did, but if kids want to play football, get sweaty and pile up, let ‘em. It hasn’t hurt us since the day football was invented, why should it now?
Congratulations (no irony), you’ve also made a great case for giving kids big, slobbery, friendly dogs, like my two favorites, Labs and Great Danes, both of which I have had and passionately loved, and allowing the kids and dogs to sleep together to their hearts’ content. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with1 adults sleeping with big dogs either. OOPS, I’ve confessed.
>> And that’s exactly what kids need to do. Roll around on the ground and eat some dirt, run into each other, get sweaty and pile up, the kind of thing kids have done since a few hundred years before I was born. Just how do you think herd immunity happens? <<
You know what? You’re right. But then, for God’s sake, let’s not close schools, force kids to wear masks, vaccinate teenagers and pre-teens, etc.