It’s just the flu, bro.
Fear porn - More contagious UK variant spreading in Texas.
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USA Today tries and fails to debunk the fact that thin, fit and healthy people are safe from COVID. They say, “From all of the evidence so far, it does seem that being healthier will reduce your risks of severe outcomes, perhaps considerably.” So there you have it, essentially the disease becomes “just the common cold, bro” if you are healthy. If someone knows that they are extremely heathy, why should they listen to any fear mongering by the CDC and other people prone to inciting panic?
Why would they write this article? Why not try and instill panic in obese people over the age of 90? The answer is simple - if all segments of the population panic then they get more clicks/newspaper purchases. Soon there will need to be articles about why young and healthy people who have been vaccinated twice still need to wear two masks. There is nothing more useless to a fear mongering newspaper than someone without fear.
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Based upon a German study: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-124394/v1 Excerpt:
Many children are subject to great challenges and families try to master these as best they can. While the proportion of people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and also the number of intensive care patients in Germany is high in many places, we report here on a relatively small, unrepresentative problem: several thousand children who seem to suffer from wearing the mask or who may experience health problems from the mask. Our study provides the basis for a representative survey on which a precise benefit-risk analysis of mask wearing in children can be built.
The health issues were exhaustive and included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%) impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%).” Nearly a third of the children sleep worse than normal, and quarter of the children had developed new fears. Hundreds of children were less cheerful, less playful and most were unusually irritable.
A precise benefit-risk analysis is urgently required. The occurrence of reported side effects in children due to wearing the masks must be taken seriously and requires a precise clarification of the accompanying health circumstances, the situation of wearing the mask (duration, breaks and mask type) and the school situation
In addition, the quarantine of children may negatively affect their development of immune systems. Research by two professors found that keeping children masked, however necessary, could undermine their bodies’ ability to learn how to fight pathogens.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children...
Memory T cells begin to form during the first years of life and accumulate during childhood. However, for memory T cells to become functionally mature, multiple exposures may be necessary, particularly for cells residing in tissues such as the lung and intestines, where we encounter numerous pathogens. These exposures typically and naturally occur during the everyday experiences of childhood — such as interactions with friends, teachers, trips to the playground, sports — all of which have been curtailed or shut down entirely during efforts to mitigate viral spread. As a result, we are altering the frequency, breadth and degree of exposures that are crucial for immune memory development.[1]