1. Infection %s in some of the Greek housing has been 85%. This is bc the under 24 age set does no social distancing & no masking when alone-something I observed early in my own 19yr old, who I had to remove from the house for our safety back in April. They are super spreading

2. COVID19 for two reasons, the first is that behaviorally, the ONLY way that age bracket (having been a member of it once) would change their behavior for THIS virus (pow personal risk) is via coercion and even where coercion exists at all, it is fairly weak. Second, college &

3. and high school age students do not realize that they are indirectly responsible for killing other people when they congregate (party) bc they are infecting themselves at high rates & then asymptomatically spreading the disease throughout the rest of the pop bc most families

4. are not telling their college-age kids not to come near them or enter their homes. No sir. My guess is there are about to be a lot of 18-22yr old kids that sicken their families and will be dealing w that guilt, esp the ones who it spreads up through grandparents, etc. Really,

5. when you see younger people, you should run, they are walking lepers. Even if they are complying w the mask mandate at the grocery store, odds are excellent they are crowding into house parties still at night. Fauci is telling people not to have their kids home for Labor Day

6. but how many will listen? The young age bracket isn't really being told how much responsibility they have for driving infection rates. Would it change their behavior? I honestly don't know. Humans are largely self-interested. Its hard to get them to change behavior, esp in

7. ways that really "hurt" to do something that they see as only benefitting others (I know, I know, Gen Z's exposure to COVID19 is going to be close to universal and largely asymptomatic but w even asymptomatic athletes displaying heart inflammation, who knows what long term

8. effects there might be? Certainly, Gen Z is foolish to expose themselves so readily to a disease w so many unknowns. But the young ARE foolish. And having graduated from being young, and realizing that I was in fact, often quite dumb when I thought I was smart, you can't

9. reason with young people about their limited ability to rationalize risk assessment. Its a constraint that is a permanent feature of being young.