There is very little known about the clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in the pediatric population. There is no reason to suppose that children are a surface less transmissible than any other. There is every reason to suppose children can die from the illness, as the have.

Took me an hour reading recent journal abstracts with a pain-in-the-arse medical dictionary to make this statement. I'm happy to send it on to the Australian state officials intent on sending kids back to school if they don't have the internet.

And @PatsKarvelas. You asked a rep from the Teachers' union a "provocative" question today: "Why should teachers not mingle with the public when people in shops have to?"
Have a think, love. Just a short one. Here's some hints: sick pay. Permanent positions. The SDA. Rent. Food.

Skylar was a joyous little 5-year-old parcel of human life adored by her first-responder parents. She died in Detroit, MI this week after infection by Covid-19. She planned to be a pediatric dentist. She is not the first pediatric fatality in the US.

Here's another picture of Skylar, @PatsKarvelas, for next time you feel like restating "provocative" claims about "bully" unions who dare to hold on to what power propagandists like you have not smashed.
If supermarket workers could stay home, they would. Oh. And fuck the sda.

If not one of you or your colleagues can nut out that there is no magical glitter exempting children from transmitting the pathogen, @PatsKarvelas just remember the kids that have already died from contracting it, instead.

I mean. FFS. How does a highly transmissible spike protein that lasts on copper surfaces for a record number of hours just slip off children? Fucking seriously. And why are @abcnews staff so keen on re-opening schools? https://twitter.com/leighsales/status/1251245379691012096

Why did @leighsales link to a Murdoch lifestyle column by @samanthamaiden on Dumb Parents to make a case for re-opening schools.
For the sake of fuck. Read a fucking headline from The Lancet. The pathogen does not behave differently in grade school. You fucking idiots.

Look. If you, a parent,will teach me, an actual idiot, to use that Zoom whatchamacallit, I will teach your children or anybody's children a terrible class in a subject of our mutual invention.