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Good. They already have herd immunity in the U18 age group. Ship those little bastards to school.

I think this is where people are starting to conflate "outdoor spread" with "kids being WAY too close to one another spread."  Since so many indoor venues are closed, of course the kids are having to party outdoors quite a bit.  Plus, it's summer, and that's what kids do anyway.  But I could see quite a bit of the spread coming more from sharing drinks, sharing beer bongs, sharing food, not washing hands, touching faces, touching every other body part, making out, hooking up-- those are all quite a bit closer activities, than we had for OUR 4th of July get-together, where we had eight people at my house, family and friends, hanging out on the back patio or in the pool, but always several feet from one another, and not sharing food/drink/containers/etc.  And of course folks only going indoors to use the bathroom.

We did the same for Mother's day, Father's Day, and Memorial Day.  No COVID spread, no issues at all.

But last weekend out on the lake, I saw dozens of boats with 9-14 HS/college/early 20s kids packed onto those boats, no masks, partying, drinking beer, bonging beer, all up in each others' business touching and stuff-- yeah, that's the kind of outdoor activity that could certainly lead to the spread.  But that's a lot more than just standing next to one another.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/texas-officials-order-extra-body-bags-mortuary-trucks-as-state-braces-for-rising-coronavirus-deaths.html

Doesn't sound good at all.

What if this thing really gets out of control on us?  Is that possible?

That being said, my advice is that if you are showing symptoms, STAY HOME (like we have done for centuries). Don't be out and about. If you come across someone that is showing symptoms, walk away from them (like I have ALWAYS done).

Good. They already have herd immunity in the U18 age group. Ship those little bastards to school.

I don't know about the protests, I'm really not seeing much indication that this is spreading outside in the open air. 

Youuthful stupidity, for sure.

And also, on the business openings and most specifically the bar reopenings-- I just don't think we had any idea how quickly it would spread under those circumstances.  Arguably, we could have and should have known, or could have guessed, but the hypothesis had not been tested with other variables frozen and isolated-- the actual experiment just hadn't been run yet.

Now, it has.

Stupid young people are often empowered by their stupid parents.  I see whole families proudly announcing that they will not follow any mask ordinance.