Posted on 09/06/2021 3:30:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
A favored tactic of the left is using emotion-laden arguments to further their narrative. Fortunately for them, in the debate over masks in schools, few things are more emotional than the idea of a child dying, whether it’s of or with COVID-19 or anything else. And true to form, they constantly beat the fact that, yes, some children do die of or with COVID, over the heads of those who cite the potentially harmful long-term effects of masking children.
“If it saves the life of just one child, then it’s worth it.” they say. To a non-critical thinker, that plea sounds logical, noble even. If you could do something simple to save the life of one child, wouldn’t you do it? Of course! If I saw a child drowning in a lake or running into the middle of traffic, I would gladly jump or run right in, as would anyone reading this.
But it’s much more complicated than that, isn’t it? We could stop driving immediately and ‘save’ the life of any future child or adult who would otherwise die in a car accident. We could wear HAZMAT suits anytime we’re in public and thereby conceivably ‘save’ every human we come in contact with - from ‘catching’ any virus we could potentially have. But those things would be insane, wouldn’t they? (Please, I need you to agree that those things would be insane.)
Indeed, every action we take as humans comes with some sort of risk. There are risks we take every day, risks we consider ‘acceptable,’ like driving, riding roller coasters, and even walking out our front door in the morning.
In our interactions with each other, the risk of virus transmission has always existed. Until the COVID era, society had accepted that it cannot properly function without humans having normal interactions with one another. That view, of course, has largely been jettisoned in favor of widespread public masking, an intervention that has never been proven to work to any significant or relevant degree.
Yet somehow, our overlords have managed to convince the majority of the gullible public that placing a moist, bacteria-laden piece of cloth over a child’s mouth and nose will somehow keep that child from getting COVID-19, a virus they pretend is dangerous to children by citing anecdotes instead of data. Assuming their intentions are good (I know, that’s a BIG assumption), they do it because they think “one life” saved is worth any intervention employed, proof of effectiveness be damned.
But at what point does the masking, the social distancing, the plastic barriers, the haranguing by teachers and even fellow students that forever implies that children, with zero proof, are virus-laden death vectors - at what point does acting like COVID is the ONLY risk in life, and a far greater risk than it actually is, become a detriment to learning, to mental health, and even to physical health (Big Tech and the other powers-that-be can continue to censor articles presenting reasonable data and evidence on this topic, but nobody is going to convince me there is zero harm to children by forcing them to mask for hours on end.)
And what is this risk, exactly, that justifies this forever insanity? Consider: According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as of September 1, 2021, 470 kids under 18 had died of or with COVID-19. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), “As of August 26, nearly 4.8 million children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic.” According to my math (which you or any social media censor reading this can duplicate on your own calculator), 470 / 4,800,000 = .0001, or 1/100 of 1%. This equates to around 1 in 10,000 children who become a COVID case actually dying from that case.
Keep in mind, however, that official ‘case’ numbers are always far below actual infection numbers. For that, we again go to the CDC, where the agency estimated that as of May 2021 upwards of 27 million kids 17 and under had contracted COVID-19. Obviously, that number is far higher now since the rise of the Delta variant, so let’s bring it to an even 30 million, still probably significantly lower than the actual number. That number would be .000016, or 1 in 62,500 children.
Going even further, of that 470, there is compelling evidence that a significant percentage of those deaths were not caused primarily by SARS-CoV-2, but rather those who happened to test positive for the virus at some point before they succumbed to something else. This study, conducted at a northern California hospital, found that 45% of pediatric hospitalizations were unlikely to have been caused by COVID-19. Another study was close to 40%. The discrepancy stands to reason, especially since, as Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary points out in this Wall Street Journal op-ed, existing CDC data does not report whether a patient is there BECAUSE OF the virus or because of another co-morbidity and they simply tested positive at some point before or during hospitalization. Shaving off another 40% from the already super-low death count brings those already low percentages even lower.
In other words, as this chart from The New York Times makes abundantly clear, children have a much higher chance of dying from things like car accidents, homicide, drowning, cancer, heart disease, and even flu/pneumonia than they do from COVID-19, a super-mild illness for the vast, vast majority of children and young people. And yet, so many of the powers-that-be, particularly those who run school districts, will enact and enforce insane policies that clearly do not work because they think it could possibly “save one life.”
And even IF forever masking could potentially “save one life” (a completely unprovable statement on its face, especially since there is ZERO data or evidence that forcibly masking children makes any difference whatsoever in case counts), that’s not how we’ve ever done policy. Even more disturbingly, since the precedent is here, when does it ever end? If we think we’re “saving one life” from COVID, why not mask and continue all the other nonsense forever because of colds, the flu, and RSV?
No, their argument is silly, illogical, and emotion & anecdote based. Don’t let them get away with it. And if they are in any elected position that affects whether or not your child is forced to wear a face muzzle for hours on end, do what you can to ensure they don't stay in office beyond their current term.
Bkmk
If it saves one life like the beating heart of a newborn?
Just heard a Doctor from Brown U that cloth masks are almost totally useless. Which might explain why I’m seeing them cheap, cheap all of a sudden. This Doc did a good job with his explanations of the boosters and even said Biden should shut his mouth for a while. Interview was with Chris Wallace. I’ll try and find it.
Unfortunately for that argument, there are about 2 billion lives under 18 worldwide. So to save every single one of those myriad situations is a daunting task indeed.
I’m not into masking children. Children need to see each other’s facial expressions and behavioral nuances.
those around them need to provide them with herd immunity as it is meant to be - practice good hygiene and, if you live in a high risk area (like soCal), vaccinate/have antibodies or isolate from the vulnerable same as always, whether they are kids or frail/elderly.
So it’s important to save every American life via masks.
Too bad saving American lives isn’t a “thing” when it comes to abandoning them in countries where they’ll be murdered in droves, after being tortured.
Makes no sense to me. (But maybe that’s just me.)
Looking down the road...
If you were 18 and considering career paths, how does the healthcare field look today?
Would you enter a field with the very real prospect of wearing a mask your entire career?
Neither would I. I expect huge shortages in healthcare workers in the future. They may be able to saddle current employees, but who in their right mind would choose to do this— forever??
It’s all about the dingbat 90-IQ Karen teachers and their emasculated male counterparts who live in mortal fear of their harmless students.
Not to give the liberals any ideas but if we banned driving a car how many lives, including children, would be saved?
And then there’s “What if it was YOUR child?”
“If it takes one or two lives ...”
If you or your baby dies or both, too bad.
No cloth mask, ever, saved anybody’s life from a respiratory illness. They may be useful in dusty conditions, but cloth or paper masks alone are no barrier to the passage of virus particles, and even some of the smaller bacteria.
Open air and sunshine take away every possible argument to wear a mask. In closed spaces using a recirculating air filtering system keeps down most of the dust and allergens, and the use of UV-C light and an ozone generator removes all biological pathogens from the air and surfaces exposed to their effects. While these two strategies kill all the pathogens, they are also distinctly harmful to most other living things, and any living thing you do not want exposed to these germicidal devices must remain out of the room while they are in operation. In high concentrations ozone can fade all your fabrics, much like strong bleach, and destroy small insect life, up to and including roaches, ants, and bedbugs.
Conservatives...fighting to save the lives of future Democrat voters!
If you were 18 and considering career paths, how does the healthcare field look today?
Would you enter a field with the very real prospect of wearing a mask your entire career?
***********
Before shamdemic, doctors wore masks only when they were in a communicable disease ward or in an operating room facing an open wound. Yet this was enough to convince some frightened conservatives to mask up everywhere.
If they really believed in ‘if it saves one life’ they would stop these killer jabs.
“The synthetic materials can stop very small droplets, but whether they do or not is debatable.”
No, it is not debatable. They DO NOT work. Every manufacturer tests these things, there have been scientific studies, this is NOT debatable.
Thanks to our education system, that covers about 80% of the population.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.