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> My 5 year old has to wear a mask 7 hours a day against an illness that doesn't kill kids

This is misinformation: https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19...

Maybe you ought to pay more attention to what it actually says instead of getting upset at what is obviously a generalization about the overreaction to COVID when it comes to young children-

>A smaller subset of states reported on hospitalizations and mortality by age; the available data indicate that COVID-19-associated hospitalization and death is uncommon in children.

Here's a more accurate representation -

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Deaths-by-Sex-Ages-0-18-years/xa4b...

Now, go look up how many of those kids were already immuno-compromised.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937e4.htm?s_cid=mm...

That's just one report that mentions 75% with an underlying medical condition.

When people say it doesn't kill kids they're generalizing, flagging it as misinformation is completely silly. By percentages and how we react to every other virus this is NOT something we should be scared of when it comes to children. We certainly shouldn't be subjecting children to measures that may cause psychological and developmental harm for something that's VERY unlikely to be a threat to them.

Thanks for bringing in that hard data. I don't understand why the news media keeps saying "thank goodness kids can get vaccinated now!". Why are they trying to normalize annual or 2x a year shots for these kids, who are more likely to suffer from myocarditis as a result than to actually contract or get ill from this virus? Nobody freaking knows.

Even if vaccination does nothing for kids except keep them from spreading it, it's net positive for the community.

Of course, with omicron, who knows...

Children are a vector for spreading the virus, this really isn’t complicated.

The psychological “trauma” of wearing a mask is nothing compared to what these kids will feel when they give grandma covid over Christmas.

It’s not about them.

In your article, it says that:

>Among states reporting, children were 0.00%-0.27% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 6 states reported zero child deaths

>In states reporting, 0.00%-0.03% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death

So how is what I said "misinformation"?

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