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states debate when to reopen, and the media attempt to create American conflict over the

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Well, I hope that you had just a wonderful, relaxed weekend since all the days have now bled from one into another.

I hope you got outside.

I hope you got outdoors. A lot of people outdoors yesterday at various places that my family was going.

And that's a good thing. More vitamin D is good. You know, socially distanced. Make sure that you're not infecting the elderly. Don't walk into an old age home or anything like that. Other than that, get outside. It is good for you. Okay. So let's begin with some good news today. I know. I know we're not allowed, but good news. Good news. So there are a couple of different studies. And these are controversial that suggest that it is possible that children are actually not infecting their parents. There are a couple of different studies that are along these lines. In Switzerland, there was a study that suggested that kids were not actually infecting their parents, that they were apparently either getting a low viral load of COVID-19 or if they were infected, they were not passing it along to their parents. And therefore, this really is adult-to-adult transmission. The kids are actually not infecting the people around them, which would be really good news. It basically mean that it's time to open up the schools, because the key with opening up the schools is not that we are afraid kids are going to infect each other. We've seen, I believe, double-digit deaths in the United States, maybe in terms of the number of children who have died total across the United States. Under the age of 20, the numbers are insanely, insanely low. This is just not a dangerous disease in terms of death for those who are under the age of 20. In fact, in terms of death, it's really not even that dangerous for those under the age of 30 so long as you don't have a significant pre-existing condition. If those people cannot even pass along the infection, well, then what you're

really talking about is it's time to get all those kids back to school, because even if they come home, having been hit with COVID-19, they're not going to pass it along to mom and dad. There's a study from Iceland that suggests exactly this. According to sciencemuseum.org.uk, they did an interview with

Roger Highfield, who's the science director in Iceland. And they talked to with Kerry

Stephenson, the CEO of the Icelandic company, Decode Genetics in Reykjavik, which has studied

the spread of COVID-19 in Iceland with Iceland's Directorate of Health and the National

University Hospital. Carrie Stephenson says that children don't seem to be passing this along,

actually, which obviously is really, really good news. They say children under 10 are less likely to

get infected than adults. If they get infected, they are less likely to get seriously ill.

What is interesting is that even if children do get infected, they are less likely to transmit the disease to others than adults. We've not found a single instance of a child infecting parents in Iceland, not one, which is kind of shocking because pretty much every flu bug that I've gotten in the last three years has been for my kids. If you have kids, you know that they are little germ factories. They go to school and they interact with all the other little germ factories and then they come home and they spit on you and now you're sick. Well, if it turns out that COVID-19 is actually not impacting children the same way as adults and in fact, children are not transmission vectors, then that is really, really good news. Meanwhile, other good news, the U.S. rates are continuing to decline. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA,

actually tweeted out a chart yesterday, showing that in the last week, the United States ran an average of 270,000 tests per day with a total of more than 2 million tests runs. The number of tests is going

steadily up, and the number of positive cases are continuing to go down. So the United States

continues to see a decline in the rate of positivity.

Now, it is possible that this is the after-effects, probably likely, that this is the

after-effect of lockdown, right? Lockdown means that fewer people are out there interacting

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