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Given that your children are unlikely to be at serious risk from COVID-19, I'm not sure why.

Your child is much more likely to be adversely affected (in the long term) by sustained economic stagnation than by this virus.

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Considering most countries try to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system, your child is affected by it though not directly. It should just not get sick, or have any form of preexisting condition about to pop up, or infect it's parents to name some possibilities.

That's not really what the comment I was replying to was talking about though, was it?

Considering many US hospitals are going under for lack patients, this is an argument that doesn't apply.

I’m sure Mark Cuban would also like to avoid the risk of leaving their children without a mother or father too.

I am merely taking the wording at face value. The point was not "is this a place I would want to shop?", it was "is this a place I would take my family?" The implication is clearly different.

That’s an uncharitably narrow interpretation, and kind of a silly point to argue.

It's really not. That is the literal wording of the quote.

“Family” includes all members of the family, including the parents. If he wanted to refer to just his children he would’ve said “children”.

Tell that to the parents of the children who just died of Kawasaki-like inflammation from the virus in NYC. We’re still seeing novel presentation of symptoms in various cohorts and have no idea of its long term impacts on children or anyone else.

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