“Follow the science!”
Science says kids are barely affected by Covid and it’s safe for them to go to school.
“The science is wrong!”
Science says kids are barely affected by Covid and it’s safe for them to go to school.
“The science is wrong!”
I got an email this week that story time at the public library is canceled because of covid. No adult venues canceled.
If individual families want to choose to take their kids out of school that should be their choice. It should not be the default.
Based on what? Also, you can get it more than once. This is a pretty bleak outlook.
> Why we should sacrifice children's well being
Why should we sacrifice the teacher's well being?
> delay the time at which their parents or families will be infected is beyond me.
Because getting sick isn't guaranteed and getting sick can land people in the hospitals and clog our healthcare system.
Again, you aren't sacrificing the teacher's well being. The teacher is, anyway, most likely going to get covid. If a teacher doesn't like being exposed to children they should resign or be fired. Schools are not for the benefit of teachers but for the benefit of children.
Once vaccinated you are unlikely to require hospitalization. Actually, you're unlikely to require hospitalization regardless of vaccination but especially unlikely once vaccinated. Maybe it's sensible for people to make some minor changes to "flatten the curve" but going to remote school is no minor change and it is far worse than the negligible benefits.
While it's true you can catch the disease multiple times subsequent infections are less likely and less severe.
Whatever a small number of teachers or students need we should not rearrange the education system for the benefit of edge cases. We should optimize for the typical case - average health people, and make adjustments to support the edge cases, not the other way around.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
The CDC estimated that 44% of the US population had been infected as of September 2021. Obviously that number will be higher now.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
There was a study in the UK from the summer of last year that said the majority of unvaxxed people had antibodies to it. (Sorry, don't have the URL)
Omicron is more transmissible, so if most had been infected then, an ever higher proportion will have been infected now.
Both of the extremes in this kinda drive me batty. On one side, I know a family that was taking distance learning as a chance to travel the world with their kids, before any vaccine was available. They have caught covid 3 times now.
I also know people that have resolved to never get covid. Why? Because it's covid. Any attempts to discuss things in more detail brings out comparisons to things such as the bubonic plague, measles, and drinking water you shit in.
And who is going to teach the kids when all the teachers are sick or possibly infectious?
I initially assumed this was true, though I also assumed that COVID-related hospitalization for children was extremely low. When I checked, though, it does not appear to be true.
For ages 5-17 (school-aged kids), hospitalization rates peaked at 1.4/100k in September 2021.[1]
As of Dec 15, 2021, 655 children 0-17 have died from COVID[2]. That's certainly not good, but it's a very small number relatively speaking. Consider that in 2018, there were 3,820 for ages 0-14 due to "unintentional injury".[3]
1: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html
2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
3: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_o...
That said the trend is not great and this will only accelerate with school back in session and community transmission very high across the country. We’re setting new national records for hospitalized adult covid patients too, for what it’s worth.
I don’t find comparisons to other causes of death of children compelling. Nor is death the only serious long term outcome to be concerned about with covid.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
Closely related: Floria wants to stop Covid testing so that their reported infection rates will drop.
https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-surgeon-general-signals...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-sym...
For age < 18, kids are 3-5x more likely to die of activities such as riding in a car and going to the pool (not to mention the good ol' flu). Virtually nobody even thinks about behavior adjustments when it comes to those activities.
You're needlessly trolling when you're labeling parents and kids speaking up against all this as right wing.
Why does everyone say it’s fine for kids to get Covid because they are not dying? Again, you are trolling.
Hospitalization rates are way up with Omicron. And only reason it looked like kids were less affected by Covid was because there was a lack of testing for kids and schools were initially closed. Schools are open and infection rates are same as adults. Sure. They aren’t dying as much because adults are generally way less healthy. But they are not magically immune and we can pretend there is nothing to be concerned about
Edit: confirmed. I looked at your comment history and you seem to love trolling and posting snarky things