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Less risk to unvaccinated child of serious Covid than vaccinated 70 yr old

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Here in Ontario, Canada, three people under the age of 20 died in April during the last wave. None since. About three children die in a car crash each month in Ontario.

As far as I can tell, the drive to school may more dangerous than the possible exposure. And yet how many are triple-checking their tires and how many triple-checking the masks before departing? Risk perceptions have gone right off the deep end.

The news itself is less noteworthy (we've known this for a long time), than the fact that the NY Times would be willing to publish such a thing.

Is NYT part of a COVID coverup?

Yes, certainly. For example, VAERS has been sending a huge, clear, obvious signal since January of this year that the vaccines are too unsafe to proceed with them. MSM never mentions it except to stonewall.

Here's the best summary of the situation I know of: https://rumble.com/vnbv86-winning-the-war-against-therapeuti... (If you don't have time to watch a video, there are slides.)

Maybe someone might suggest that isn't a coverup, that it's just ignorance. Well, it can't be ignorance in the case of the freedom marches with huge crowds that have been occurring all over the world. IIRC people in France marched for the 13th straight weekend. But MSM outlets are seemingly unable to detect any of it.

I've had plenty of flu shots and never got a VAERS handout but I got a handout for the covid shot, I'm betting VAERS saw lots of use with the covid shot that wasn't common with other vaccines, so that has to influence the numbers.

From a gov't website:

"A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given."

I guess if you see more coverups than the average person does then you'll probably form different opinions than the average person.

Also, the "freedom marches" include many Q types I'm sure, and if folks think the Q types are reasonable people, well you know...

I don't know that it's a "coverup", and I happily got vaccinated. But NYT has had a bit of an hysterical "it's totally safe and everyone needs it and if you think otherwise you're an idiot" kick throughout the pandemic. The idea that children, or people who've already had it and recovered, might have a different tradeoff than people like me, is a subtlety they haven't been very willing to discuss. Until now, I guess, which is a good sign!

What differentiates COVID from "serious COVID"? Is this referring to the potency of the strain, or the body's immune response to it?

The full sub-title says "serious illness" ... I did my best to compress to an informative post title that fit in the limits:

> Covid and Age

> An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.

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