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> Some people aren't vaccinated because they're too young, they have some medical condition, or they had the misfortune to be born to anti-vaxxer parents. Kids

by umvi 5y ago

> Some people aren't vaccinated because they're too young, they have some medical condition, or they had the misfortune to be born to anti-vaxxer parents. Kids being unvaccinated strikes me as a weak argument because they are the least vulnerable demographic on average. Rare medical conditions is also a weak argument because those types of people are exceedingly rare. > This stance isn't compatible with the current position/branding of either the Democrats or the Republicans. Ouch, this really strikes at one of the core issues. In a very real sense, covid could be re-framed as a proxy war for political control, a crisis that has (and continues to be) artificially hyped and prolonged for political advantage.

michaelt 5y ago
> Kids being unvaccinated strikes me as a weak argument because they are the least vulnerable demographic on average. I have heard that, yes. But I've also heard [1] saying when a Houston 11-month-old presented with Covid, five "major pediatric hospital groups" said they had no beds available, and she ended up at a hospital 150 miles away. I can understand why a politician might not give two thumbs up to such a state of affairs. [1] https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-150-miles-away-cases-us-pediatric-capacity/10934562/ https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-...
- umvi 5y ago
  This is an ultra-cherry picked example. How many such 11-month-olds is this happening to? Is this a frequent occurrence or an astonishing rarity? I want to know how many children are being hospitalized after infection per capita. Everything I've read makes it seem like children being hospitalized by covid is around 1 in 100,000 with closer to 1 in 1,000,000 dying from it. Kids are at higher risk just going to a swimming pool. In a nation of 330M+ people, it's not hard to find examples of extreme outliers (just google "kids struck by lightning" for example).

by umvi 5y ago

michaelt 5y ago

> Kids being unvaccinated strikes me as a weak argument because they are the least vulnerable demographic on average. I have heard that, yes. But I've also heard [1] saying when a Houston 11-month-old presented with Covid, five "major pediatric hospital groups" said they had no beds available, and she ended up at a hospital 150 miles away. I can understand why a politician might not give two thumbs up to such a state of affairs. [1] https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-150-miles-away-cases-us-pediatric-capacity/10934562/ https://abc7chicago.com/baby-with-covid-treated-at-hospital-...

umvi 5y ago
This is an ultra-cherry picked example. How many such 11-month-olds is this happening to? Is this a frequent occurrence or an astonishing rarity? I want to know how many children are being hospitalized after infection per capita. Everything I've read makes it seem like children being hospitalized by covid is around 1 in 100,000 with closer to 1 in 1,000,000 dying from it. Kids are at higher risk just going to a swimming pool. In a nation of 330M+ people, it's not hard to find examples of extreme outliers (just google "kids struck by lightning" for example).