Posted on 07/13/2021 12:53:20 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The kids are safe. They always have been.
It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that, according to the CDC, among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.
This is true for the much-worried-over Delta variant. It is also true for all the other variants, and for the original strain. Most remarkably, it has been known to be true since the very earliest days of the pandemic — indeed it was among the very first things we did know about the disease. The preliminary mortality data from China was very clear: To children, COVID-19 represented only a vanishingly tiny threat of death, hospitalization, or severe disease.
Yet for a year and a half we have been largely unwilling to fully believe it. Children now wear masks at little-league games, and at the swimming pool, and when school reopens in the fall they will likely wear masks there, too. But the kids are not at risk themselves, and never were. Now, thanks to vaccines, the vast majority of their parents and grandparents aren’t any longer, either.
But first: the kids. Over the course of the pandemic, 49,000 Americans under the age of 18 have died of all causes, according to the CDC. Only 331 of those deaths have been from COVID — less than half as many as have died of pneumonia. In 2019, more than 2,000 American kids and teenagers died in car crashes; each year, according to some estimates, about a thousand die from drowning....
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Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie With the Biden administration announcing they will work more aggressively with fact-checkers, now would be a good time to remind everyone that @factcheckdotorg is funded by a foundation that holds $2 BILLION worth of VACCINE manufacturer stock. 3:55 PM · Jul 12, 2021
Now that we can vaccinate the teachers, it should be less of a worry to open the schools, etc. All along it was less about protecting the students than it was about protecting the adults and the students’ own families, but now that the vaccine exists (for over half a year!), and is safe and effective, that is clearly the right approach.
And again, if people have special immune issues, that’s a different matter, but anyone simply too stubborn to get the vaccine, I see no reason why society should go out of our way to protect them. Say hi to Darwin.
Yeah, nobody cares about kids health and well-being than Leftists. That’s why they kill them in the womb.
The worry was manufactured.
Your spiel is nonsense.
Blah, blah, blah. The death numbers are so “doctored” that they mean nothing. Under the rules, if a kid died after falling off his rocking horse and tested positive for Covid, that would be counted as a Covid death. The kids are not alright. They have been terrorized and living under a cloud of perceived impending death if they take off their masks or get too close to anyone. What kind of effect will that have on them long term? We are being controlled, worldwide, by monsters who seek to murder the elderly, enslave the productive, and reprogram the children to reject their own race and even their own families.
Well...they’re going to kill them with the vaccine...which, considering they should not reproduce more liberals...may not be such a bad thing!
Excellent observation.
Got to keep this panic going until we can put in some bans on any groups of people of more than four except maybe in the Capitol. Maybe they can just ban Congress or make the Legislators all work from home.
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