(Continuation from yesterday)

Junior Daughter: "I'm more 'Corona literate' than most of my classmates because I'm thoroughly informed about Dad's new Corona.

Ebata: "But you go out with your friends quite often, don't you?

JD: "Well, it's my last month of high school.

E: "So, on a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your corona literacy in comparison to your classmates?

JD: "I think it's a nine."

All the family members who heard my junior daughter's story were surprised.

I have a fair amount of faith in my second daughter's ability to analyze situations, so I can qualify this value as "true".

If that's the case,

"Teenagers' corona literacy is 'low' beyond our imagination"

This possibility is 'high'.

However, I believe that most young people are taking proper measures to prevent infection.

I believe they are really more serious than the lowly old men who are talking loudly in restaurants.

However, there is no sense of "shadow of death" there at all.

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At this time, there have been zero deaths from the new coronavirus in young people under the age of 16, and they are not eligible for vaccination.

I think it's quite absurd to ask people to share their consciousness with "elderly people who live with the fear of death".

The situation would have been different if the virus had "equal mortality in all generations" and "concentrated on children.

If, like the so-called Spanish flu, it would have been the characteristics of "hitting infants directly" and "severe disease in young people" --

I don't think the word "loosening" would have been used in the declaration of the state of emergency this time.