Let's play out the @RandPaul Rand Paul fantasy world:

Kids go back to school. Only a few die. Everything's great!

Reality:
*76 million students exposed. Based on known stats, 46 million get severely sick.
*Hospital system overrun by this alone.
*3.3 million teachers exposed../1
...*Based on wayyy underestimated infection stats, 2 million teachers get sick.
* With an average age of 43.5, putting vast majority of these teachers in high risk zones for death, fatality rate and number of dead explodes.
*Hospitals get millions of more patients.....
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*Schools shut down within a month as children/teachers/administrators/janitors/etc can no longer attend.
*Yet...when unsymptomatic, children and teachers infect parents, other family and friends.
*Parents, family and friends add millions more to the infected number.../3
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*As millions of hospital workers exposed to far more disease, with patients lined up in hallways and dying everywhere, death of hospital workers explodes.
*The lesions that are found in the lungs of even asymptomatic COVID patients form in the lungs of children.../4
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*In 20 years, the children with lesions in their lungs develop far serious respiratory illnesses.
*Children exposed end up with the urethral infections found in male COVID patients, having unknown impact on their future ability to have children.
*The toxic-shock-like..../5
...disease found in children ends up being - not serious/serious/kills all children exposed/ WHO KNOWS? WE DON'T - and children bear the consequences of death, disability, etc.
*Teachers who survive this man-made disaster refuse to work.
*Substitute teachers resign.../6
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*Schools close within two months, with this Rand Paul experiment having made the USA virtually uninhabitable.
*Rest of the world, seeing USA is incapable of being responsible, imposes a global quarantine against our country.
*Stock prices collapse
*GOP finally cares.

fin
...I gave 2 numbers for schools closing. That wasnt clear. 1st, under wave of infections, schools close for the year. 2nd, with teacher ranks wiped out, and GOP refusing to pay decent wages for teachers, mass resignations and unable to replace educators. Schools close forever.
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