I wonder if the debate was stifled because of reductionist comments like this. COVID-19 is far more serious than a cold. How can we be expected to have a real discussion about this topic when you either don’t understand or choose not to understand the difference between a cold and COVID?
1) https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Deaths-by-Sex-Ages-0-18-years/xa4b...
Kids were relatively resilient from the virus.
Now addressing the logic in your response, are you suggesting we should have similar school shutdown measures for the flu every year? For a similar three year period influenza will kill 400-600 kids.
And that doesn't matter one bit, because their direct experience means nothing to the actual reality. Millions of people are dead and using one's own personal experience to pretend that it was actually no big deal is just willful ignorance.
“Their direct experience means nothing to the actual reality.”
This is how the enlightenment ends, in a nutshell. Over-confident denial of reality, supported by misleading statistics and buggy models.
“Since we’re awash in this contemporary ocean of speculation, we forget that things can be known with certainty, and that we need not live in a fearful world of interminable unsupported opinion. But the gulf that separates hard fact from speculation is by now so unfamiliar that most people can’t comprehend it.” — Michael Crichton
I’d also argue that a random quote from the author of Jurassic Park isn’t really moving the conversation forward.
Sounds far far more like the people who think covid is nothing more than a cold.
And at least in Australia the vast majority of cases of covid happened after people where vaccinated, so on a personal experience level that's why most didn't have a severe sickness from it.
Your anecdotal experience is not reality.
Mortality rate of less than 0.03%.
Average age of death in the UK was 83 and with 2 or more comorbidities.
Completely overhyped.
Many obese people and then you wonder why they can't fight this off. Now, the exception is the less common immune deficient people - that I understand but damn I know people who eat like utter rubbish
Those same “many people” are often quoted, often alluded to, and often used to ignore quantifiable facts.
Your direct experience does not negate my direct experience, and I’ve never experienced an otherwise healthy adult entering the hospital because of a bad case of the flu and dying. I cannot say the same for COVID.
While I agree that COVID may have been overblown in some respects, it was also politicized and in doing so a lot of FUD was spread. Which led to many people rejecting a vaccine that would have reduced the impact to not only themselves but the rest of the population around them.
Anyways, long story short - I'm pretty sure it was COVID .
Not for kids.
And we always knew this, but our public officials didn't listen. It's one of those cases where it was better to do _nothing_ instead of force this massive mask trauma on our children. And still, they want us to vax 5 year olds against a virus that has long passed us by. For what?