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>This doesn't pan out when children have developed severe inflammatory responses, young adults have died, and not all people with comorbidities have had severe reactions

How many millions has covid infected thus far? It would be concerning if it hadn't killed a couple healthy kids and not killed a couple obese old people.

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It's not "a couple", there's been about 105 child deaths, and 4600 child hospitalizations. It's not as bad as adults, but you can't say little Johnny is magically immune, nor can you say that Brad the football star at the local college is either. I don't think it's currently clear why some apparently healthy people develop severe reactions.

Do you feel we should restrict billions from gathering with and hugging their family so that we can save 105 children?

Can you help us understand the thinking you use to make that tradeoff?

The point of the 105 dead children was to show children can be severely affected and don't have magic immunity. 500K children have been diagnosed with COVID, with varying symptom levels. We have 200,000 dead overall in the USA, so it's not just a matter of 105 dead children justifying lockdown, it's all those other dead people you seem to have forgotten about.

Also FYI, you can't hug your family member anymore once they're dead.

They don't, but they are far more susceptible to Measles. In 2018 140,000 children died from measles -- a disease we actually have a well known vaccine that's been proven safe!

Well we've yet to develop a COVID-19 vaccine that ditzy parents can ignore/avoid. Stupidity isn't an excuse for more stupidity.

What’s the median age of those that have sadly passed and the percentage with comorbidities?

Do you really mean "sadly" when trying to make the point that old people or people with pre-existing conditions are acceptable deaths?

He is Just Asking Questions

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

Am I. Which part of the question is leading? Which part is not Socratic?

Well that would be an extremely unpleasant attempt at putting words in somebody's mouth that makes me wonder whether you are actually engaging honestly here.

Did you honestly not know the answer? What was your point?

This is emotional manipulation that we can all engage in. The 105 children are not the only victims.

I have bad asthma and my wife is ill I don't appreciate you gathering and hugging your family and killing mine.

Did that advance the discussion? Was it manipulation? No and you bet!

It's small enough that it's not a concern and not something we should spend much effort worrying about. 105 is absolutely nothing compared to nearly 200k deaths in the US.

It's also a HUGE distraction to the real concern: We don't fully understand how contagious children are.

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