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That's like saying back in the 70s and 80s that we cannot eliminate deaths and injuries from car accidents so it's useless to have seatbelt and air bag campaign
by belltaco 5y ago
That's like saying back in the 70s and 80s that we cannot eliminate deaths and injuries from car accidents so it's useless to have seatbelt and air bag campaigns and laws.
>outside of risk populations
Depends on how you define risk, 59 children have died just in Texas from Covid so far. Risk goes up with age.
Every single additional vaccination helps the situation.
- jMyles 5y ago> 59 children have died just in Texas from Covid so far Obviously you realize this is a controversial, at best, assertion. What's your reasoning for why John's Hopkins wasn't able to find a single pediatric death _from_ COVID-19?
- detaro 5y agoBecause the study you reference only looked at data from early-ish in the pandemic, doesn't cover delta-variant or anything else that happened in the past year? (It's also not that difficult to find claims from John Hopkins that deaths in children have happened, so you obviously realize that the "wasn't able to find a single pediatric death" is a controversial, at best, assertion?)
- jMyles 5y agoIs there evidence of a massive uptick in pediatric deaths? So much so that we'd believe that, even as transmission patterns increasingly resemble endemic equilibrium, the results of this report (which, to my knowledge, is still, sadly, the only one of its kind) are completely reversed? I think it's fair to say that the authors don't think so.
- peteradio 5y agoMore like saying we should only wear seatbelts when we are in the fucking cars!
- jsight 5y agoInterestingly, seat belts and air bags are still controversial among some (few?) folks.
- Ambolia 5y agoThat would only be an analogy if car accidents mutated to overcome seatbelts. Also car accidents can kill everybody, Covid not so much if you are young, have healthy lungs and are not overweight.