I’ve seen this argument a lot in the US, and it’s asinine. In Portland, they closed the schools, but students can still come by to pick up meals. It wasn’t that hard to work around.
Another thing that gets me is, about the childcare argument; I was left at home alone when I was about 9, of my siblings weren’t there, and I was left to take care of them starting when I was 11or 12, and that was a perfectly normal thing, that never caused any problems, back then. Nowadays, my coworkers won’t even leave their 12-13 year old kids at home alone, for fear of getting the cops called on them. Obviously, for people with younger children, they still need childcare, but people have gotten just ridiculous about things that used to be simple common sense.
For pain, ibuprofen works much better for me. Acetaminophen is supposedly better as a febrifuge, which would make it useful in the case of COVID-19, but I have no first-hand experience.
The mechanism of action is different between the two, and lots of folks have your experience. The question currently being evaluated is whether the problem is related to anti-inflammatory action, in which case acetaminophen is ok, or fever reduction, in which case both are bad. For those who find acetaminophen pretty useless (me among them) this could be moderately bad news.
Locally, we are now doing “fill the truck” drives to feed kids who rely on school lunches, but again, community stepping in when leadership abandons us. There are limits to how far that can get.
That’s my plan. My bike’s going to get some mileage. I ride solo so I can still maintain social distance. I don’t imagine riding in a group would be a good idea at all.
Oh and I happened to see reference to Santa Clara’s order (I don’t live there), and it defines outdoor exercise as a permitted activity and exception from a shelter-in-place order:
To engage in outdoor activity, provided the individuals comply with Social Distancing Requirements as defined in this Section, such as, by way of example and without limitation, walking, hiking, or running.
I am saying it is one hypothesis. There have been very good (non-covid-19) studies showing that aggressive fever reduction prolongs illness in generic viral URIs, but how and if this applies to something like this is not known.
I think I read this morning that Finland did something similar. They chose to keep the daycare centres open, but asked parents not to bring their children there unless absolutely essential.
