Posted on 12/21/2021 12:10:15 PM PST by BusterDog
The last two years of parenting young children in a pandemic have felt like an extended, unyielding version of that moment. Every day we measure the threats and perform intricate cost-benefit analyses. What’s more damaging, for example: unrelenting isolation or the possibility of a child contracting the virus from a return to daycare? The stress of playing Russian roulette with our children’s lives—or refusing to, keeping them home as much as possible—is crushing. I think of that old carnival ride, the Gravitron, which spins so quickly that riders are lifted from the floor, held against padded walls by forces three times that of normal gravity. The fun of the ride (if you like such rides, which I don’t) is that it stops. The pressure eases. You can move again.
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Vaccines for kids 5 to 11 began rolling out in early November 2021. Every social media image of a child being vaccinated brought a surge of hope—but also, of jealousy. When would it be our turn? When would our kids get to return to any semblance of normalcy, of community?
Not soon enough, it turns out. Pfizer and BioNTech announced on December 17 that the two-dose vaccine they were testing in kids under 5 failed to produce enough of an immune response in kids 2 through 5. (The vaccine did produce an adequate immune response in kids 6 months to 2 years, but the company is–bafflingly to many parents–still not yet requesting authorization for that age group.) I wanted to wail, to howl. A lifeline, taken. That’s how it felt to me. The dizzying, sickening ride continuing, our backs against the wall, no end in sight.
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So, the writer is upset that his kids can’t get a vaccine that is proven won’t do them any good?
What a nut case.
Katie is a Karen.
We really need to do something about that 19th amendment.
This sort of attitude just goes to illustrate the poor state of math education in this country.
Democrat fear-porn propaganda for stupid women
I’d hate to go around living my life in constant fear.
Those kids are sooooo frikkin’ screwed...
Superstitions run strong in the feeble minded.
I grew up during Cold War with “Fallout Shelter” signs on buildings—and then came the Hong Kong Flu—and we didn’t cower and hibernate.
Life went on.
She wants YOU to live in fear. This is just virtue signaling
All the bizarre futuristic movies like The Running Man and Robocop (where the ordinary folks have no clue what is going on thanks to government propaganda) are not weird enough. Put together they cannot compete with today’s real world.
lol... she’s worse than. She’s a loon who has no business having kids. She’s more danger to them than any virus.
She needs to lighten up.
Climate change is going to kill them before their, “tween” years.
I suggest this parent poke around his neighborhood for very tall buildings.
Well, there certainly is an epidemic raging in this country. A mental health epidemic, that is.
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