'73sunglasslover Many many adults will also be asymptomatic or have such mild symptoms they have no idea they have it. You going to ban them too??
What about your postman/woman they could be asymptomatic and delivering letters of disease through your letterbox 😱
The pasta packet you just picked up could have been handled by a symptomatic person refusing to self isolate 😱
So many if and buts, but starving children and excluding lone parent families from essentials isn't the answer.
There is no socientific evidence that children are better or worse at spreading the virus than an adult. So that child in the supermarket sat in a trolley not touching anything is the same as another adult. Except child in trolley isn't touching all the merchandise in the shop but the adult is.'
I think you've misunderstood. I have never said adults can't be asymptomatic too. I was wondering what the evidence was that children are less likely to spread it. Of course postmen and women can be asymptomatic spreaders and we are (I suspect like others) treating all mail as contaminated just in case.
If your point is that children are not likely to touch things 'for fun' then I can see where we fundamentally disagree. They are also more likely to breach the 2m rule. Clearly there are also a lot of adult numpties out there too but on balance a 4 year old is probably less likely to be able to do what is required to decrease spread. There is much science behind that if we think about their brain development and how they interact with the world (much more touch and play than adults).
If we are expecting large swathes of society to isolate for their own protection we have to be accepting that there will need to be other ways for provisions to be obtained. Single parents can who live alone (i.e. not with family or friends) and whose children are not old enough to be left can use the same methods (there are not enough delivery slots to go around so that's now how all vulnerable people are managing).