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Virologist: start of school to bring fourth wave of coronavirus in Hungary!
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Two virologists shared their predictions and how to mitigate the risks.
Hungary is currently a Covid limitation-free country with no restrictions in bars or restaurants, no obligation to wearing a mask, and no prohibition for tourists to travel to the country.
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However, with the start of September, and more precisely, with the beginning of the school year, it would be advisable to get ready for a possible third wave of the pandemic. According to virologists from Szeged,
the start of the school term, together with the appearance of the delta variant of the virus, is expected to cause problems.
They both talked to Pénzcentrum, sharing their views and solutions.
Although the delta variant does not manifest with serious symptoms in kids, it does spread two or even three times faster than other versions. These mild symptoms can be similar to those of a simple cold with diarrhoea, occasionally complemented with nausea and fever. Since the elderly usually meet the same amount of people during a year as a schoolkid would on the course of a week, unvaccinated children under the age of twelve will act as transmitters. The virus will not particularly spread during classes when kids are seated and rarely talk, but in the classrooms, restrooms, and corridors where they have to speak loudly or even shout. Since the infection is transmitted through droplets, the virus will spread faster in schools.
In order to mitigate the risks,
Sándor Tóth suggests reintroducing masks, without which “there will be big problems when schools start.”
This is fear-mongering.
First, no outbreak has been traced to schools.
Second, cloth masks do not stop viruses.
Third, this virus will be with us for a century, just as the Spanish Flu of 1918 still exists today.
The vaccines have proven to be effective for most people, but are most dangerous for the young. We need to be careful.
Everyone will be exposed to this virus eventually. We must all build immunity or die. That is reality.
More fear mongering. But even if there is a 4th wave wearing mask and social distancing and closing up everything again will NOT improve public safety. It will only further destroy the global and Hungarian economy. I would venture to say that most of the cases which will occur will be the delta variant and many suspect that those whom have been vaccinated are actually the ones spreading it as a side effect called viral shedding. NEVER have vaccinated people caught what they were vaccinated for. But never mind that lets blame the 4th wave on the unvaccinated anyway because that makes the vaccinated feel better despite the evidence that 80% of the vaccinated in Israel which probably has the highest percentage of citizenry vaccinated on the planet catching the Delta variant were previously vaccinated.