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Also one of the reasons it was important to vaccinate kids. People seem to have a really hard time reasoning about graphs. Typical white Americans also had trouble understanding outside their demographic multigenerational households are common. Kids killing their grandparents is a heavy burden in life.

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This logic of selectively applying externalities based on an arbitrary threshold of risk tolerance is not a good argument.

We might as well blame all the fat people as well. If they were thinner we’d have saved lives.

The article you’re replying to is that 70% of household infections started with a child. That’s selective application of externalities, that’s a causal statement. So, you could without a huge stretch of conditional probability say that ~70% of fat people dying in a household were due to their kids infecting them, assuming the paper is right. I am not blaming kids for anything, or fat people. I’m saying the focus on preventing kids from being infected had important knock on implications - which is a restatement of the paper linked itself, with the extension that all mitigants were helpful in saving household lives.

Except that the vaccines never stopped infection or spread. Here is a humorous video on it. https://youtu.be/E0Mup2cs6Uw

Why is the video description just a link to Matt Taibbi's substack?

But the vaccines have almost certainly prevented, at minimum, hundreds of thousands more deaths.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/report-covid-19-vaccines...

This is absurd. Your ilk was willing to risk well being and health of youth for some hypochondriac fear because the very old and co-morbid had some risk. There's nothing honorable or good about this.

>Typical white Americans

This is pathetic

Last I checked, covid has killed over 1,000,000 Americans, even though pretty strong measures were taken.

Your characterization of this as "hypochondriac" fear is almost unconscionable.

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