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This is the only answer. Every single American adult has had the opportunity to get the vaccine. Any who don't have made a personal decision and there should

This is the only answer. Every single American adult has had the opportunity to get the vaccine. Any who don't have made a personal decision and there should be no reason to continue mandated masks or lockdowns for any group (vaccinated or unvaccinated). Children are not contracting the virus in meaningful numbers, and in even fewer numbers are having serious side effects. The biggest pushers of mask mandates for the vaccinated are other vaccinated individuals. No unvaccinated individual I have encountered has pushed for everyone else to mask up at their behest.

generj 5y ago
Children weren’t contracting the virus in meaningful numbers. The delta variant has changed that and Louisiana had 3,000 child cases in just 4 days. The child death rate from COVID is higher than the child death rate from the flu AND many many more kids will be exposed to COVID than will be exposed to influenza.
tfehring 5y ago
It's not strictly a personal decision when others will be paying for unvaccinated people's hospital bills, or potentially disability income, through insurance and taxes respectively. 19% of new US COVID cases the week of July 29 were in children [0]. Deaths and hospitalizations in children are extremely rare but medium-term side effects, including cognitive effects, appear to be relatively common [1]. It's unclear how long those effects will last and whether they'll be permanent, but the societal impact of a double-digit percentage of children experiencing noticeable long-term cognitive declines would be absolutely devastating. [0] https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/ https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-cov... [1] https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/05/19/how-covid-19-affects-kids-long-term/ https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/05/19/...

generj 5y ago

Children weren’t contracting the virus in meaningful numbers. The delta variant has changed that and Louisiana had 3,000 child cases in just 4 days. The child death rate from COVID is higher than the child death rate from the flu AND many many more kids will be exposed to COVID than will be exposed to influenza.

tfehring 5y ago

It's not strictly a personal decision when others will be paying for unvaccinated people's hospital bills, or potentially disability income, through insurance and taxes respectively. 19% of new US COVID cases the week of July 29 were in children [0]. Deaths and hospitalizations in children are extremely rare but medium-term side effects, including cognitive effects, appear to be relatively common [1]. It's unclear how long those effects will last and whether they'll be permanent, but the societal impact of a double-digit percentage of children experiencing noticeable long-term cognitive declines would be absolutely devastating. [0] https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/ https://services.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-cov... [1] https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/05/19/how-covid-19-affects-kids-long-term/ https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/05/19/...