see, to me this brings up concerns about the virus mutating here in canada, because this hasn't happened elsewhere, and draws attention to the lack of meaningful surveillance here in ontario, due to an apparent attempt to smudge it out through delayed reporting of the data. what we don't know is the depth of it.

if we were more rigorous about collecting and analyzing samples, then we might have a better understanding of what is happening and how to stop it. as it is, it's going to be exceedingly difficult to stop an influenza-like virus from spreading amongst children, if it's been established as already having started. that was one of the major differences in the early stages of the pandemic - this didn't visibly affect children much.

if that fact has changed, then children should be added to the list of vulnerable populations, and action should of course be immediately taken to do so. we don't need this to hit daycares the way it hit the old folks homes.

listen, following the science means adjusting to the evidence. the evidence initially said it didn't hit or spread amongst kids. it's perfectly plausible that some mutation spread amongst adults quite a while before it started to spread amongst children. so, suggesting children should have been separated would be the wrong deduction, as the failure in policy came in respects to the adult population. but, now, apparently that has changed, and the policy should change along with it.

we really don't want this to hit daycares the same way it hit the longterm care facilities. let's learn something quickly. k?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/increase-new-covid-19-cases-under-20s-ontario-toronto-peel-1.5612526