by Ace
To add my bit: the entire scare was manufactured by teachers to protect them, not children, and to let them stay home like white collar workers were.
And also, there was a lot of virtue-signaling covid Karen one-upsmanship in the mix.The kids are safe. They always have been.It may sound strange, given a year of panic over school closures and reopenings, a year of masking toddlers and closing playgrounds and huddling in pandemic pods, that among children the mortality risk from COVID-19 is actually lower than from the flu. The risk of severe disease or hospitalization is about the same.
This is true for the much-worried-over Delta variant. It is also true for all the other variants, and for the original strain. Most remarkably, it has been known to be true since the very earliest days of the pandemic — indeed it was among the very first things we did know about the disease. The preliminary mortality data from China was very clear: To children, COVID-19 represented only a vanishingly tiny threat of death, hospitalization, or severe disease.
Yet for a year and a half we have been largely unwilling to fully believe it. Children now wear masks at little-league games, and at the swimming pool, and when school reopens in the fall they will likely wear masks there, too. But the kids are not at risk themselves, and never were. Now, thanks to vaccines, the vast majority of their parents and grandparents aren’t any longer, either.
But first: the kids. Over the course of the pandemic, 49,000 Americans under the age of 18 have died of all causes, according to the CDC. Only 331 of those deaths have been from COVID — less than half as many as have died of pneumonia. In 2019, more than 2,000 American kids and teenagers died in car crashes; each year about a thousand die from drowning. More American children die in an average year from RSV — another respiratory ailment, whose prevalence is now growing because 18 months of quarantine have deprived young children of immune exposure — than died in either of the last two years from COVID-19.
Democrats proved they don’t care one bit about the general health of the public. They just want to politicize anything they can because their policies are so disastrously pathetic. They also prove that when they do implement their policies, they are almost always disastrous failures.
Never threatened? From the American Academy of Pediatrics, April 21, 2021: Children make up nearly 21% of new COVID-19 cases
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Children are making up a growing share of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly 21% last week.
About 88,500 new pediatric COVID-19 cases were reported between April 8-15, according to the latest weekly report from the AAP and Children’s Hospital Association. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 3.63 million children have tested positive, making up about 13.6% of all cases.
At least 297 children have died of COVID-19, about 0.06% of all deaths. About 0.01% of children diagnosed with COVID-19 have died. At least 14,849 children have been hospitalized, about 2% of all hospitalizations. Roughly 0.8% of children with COVID-19 have been hospitalized.
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https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/04/19/pediatric-covid-cases-041921
How many children die or suffer severe side effects from taking the vaccine?
So we lost both elderly and children because they refused to give them effective treatment of the Ivermectin protocol what heartless bastards and with over 1/2 million dead that seems with shut downs and masking is their idea of an effective strategy….now sort by state hampster brain
It wasn’t only a matter of the statistical danger COVID posed to individual children. It was a matter of the serious danger infected children posed as a vector for spread of the infection to everyone else.
It’s been shown the pose no “serious danger” unvaccinated, either to themselves or to others. They are more likely to be struck by lightening or drown than die of COVID and they are not spreaders. Besides, adults are getting vaccinated with very little chance of ill effects.
It is DANGEROUS to pursue a blanket vaccination of children and there is very little return for that risk, but all Democrats care about is exercising their control and power.
It was a matter of the serious danger infected children posed as a vector for spread of the infection to everyone else.
Bull you will never get 100% safety from illness, rejecting treatments shows the insanity. Who has not seen the perfectly brainwashed? Those who walk all alone outside, those driving all alone in a car with the windows up wearing a mask. Greg would have the Government mandate helmets and knee guards for stationary exercise bikes.