Trump says children are immune to the coronavirus. Facebook didn t stick around and removed his video

Facebook fell asleep a video in which Donald Trump stated that children are almost immune to the coronavirus. Twitter reacted similarly.

Trump gave an interview with Fox News in which he concluded that children are "almost immune" to the coronavirus. The statement appeared in the context of the discussion on the return of students to school. The president of the United States is in favor of opening schools, and this "near-resistance" is to be an argument for such a scenario.

Both Facebook and Twitter have found that the interview snippet shared by Trump's people on social media violates the standards of both platforms.

Facebook removed the video stating that Trump's statement violated the company's policy on disinformation.

Twitter, in turn, temporarily blocked President @TeamTrump's campaign account, giving an ultimatum to Trump's staff that it would not be unsuspended until the video with the said statement was removed. The @Team Trump account is currently available on Twitter.

Can the head of state publicly utter nonsense, especially about the coronavirus ?

If we adopt a cynical approach, we may find that it is an unwritten privilege of a politician to tell nonsense. So we will wave our hand ostentatiously and apply the approach of Facebook, which once recognized in a somewhat veiled way that politicians in principle have the right to propagate fake news. You could say that this is a convention inherent in the profession. In this approach, it is no different from the advertisement of a washing-up liquid manufacturer, which promises that one drop is enough to wash the plates after a 200-person wedding.

It is one thing to wink in advertising. Election promises too, but there are limits. One of them is the security of citizens.

Based on the statistics, scientists agree that children are less likely to get the coronavirus and have it easier than adults, but are also confident that they are not immune to SARS-CoV-2 . In the light of scientific knowledge, Trump's statement is therefore harmful disinformation, and the fact that it is spoken by the head of state raises its rank.

CNN , not very sympathetic to the US president, notes that Trump repeated in a telephone interview what he had heard on Fox News earlier. The argument about children's resistance to the coronavirus was supposed to be the leitmotif of the discussion at this station about the opening of schools.

Meanwhile, in Poland, children will return to schools.

The Ministry of National Education announced yesterday that the children will return to schools on September 1 . The ministry plans to implement three teaching models in the time of the pandemic. In the first, students will go to school as normal. In the second, the director, with the consent of the Department of Health and Safety, may introduce a mixed variant, when some children will learn remotely. The third will apply in particularly endangered areas, where the Sanepid may allow schools to fully teach remotely.

Decisions regarding teaching in higher education are pending. For example, the University of Silesia in Katowice decided that during the winter semester, teaching would take place "with the use of distance learning methods and techniques". However, the university authorities allow normal classes. This applies to laboratories and exercises. However, it is recommended that they are also run remotely.

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Trump says children are immune to the coronavirus. Facebook didn't stick around and removed his video

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