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The risk from infection is small enough to be considered zero. There is no reason to mask the children.

by clarge1120 5y ago

tehjoker 5y ago
Explain that to the kids that died or the older relatives that got sick from the infected kids.
- busymom0 5y ago
  > Explain that to the kids that died At least 9 out of 10 children in the ICUs in North Carolina were obese. https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-children-in-covid-icus-are-overweight-but-public-health-officials-rarely-talk-about-obesity https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c... The iron-fisted one-size-fits-all approach has never been used in medicine and health except COVID.
  - tehjoker 5y ago
    Nice of you to discard anyone with a health problem.
    - chiefalchemist 5y ago
      Perhaps. But if such conditions increase risk why is the government reluctant to promote that fact? What is gained in the lack of honesty and transparency? Along the same lines, ingoring this differentiator has allowed the gov the take a heavy handed on size fits all approach. If the risk is targeted, why is the loss of rights applied to everyone? Finally, this approach is now being used to jab the kids. That isn't justice. In fact - whether anyone agrees or disagree s - it smells like textbook authoritarianism. In that context, we are all discarded.
      - tehjoker 5y ago
        Huge numbers of people have at least one co-morbidity. The number of perfectly healthy people is probably a minority of the country. The number of co-morbidity rises with declining income and dangerousness of work. So all the bushiness owners and fancy lad writers, managers, programmers, and other white collars are better positioned to withstand the pandemic with virtually every advantage in both isolation and physical health. All those guys that eat shit because they don't have money or time and burn themselves out physically working hard get to die. In a slightly different category of person, it's morbidly fascinating watching unvaccinated people on twitter note their buddy just died and say they had comorbidities with a profile pic that shows them to be obese. In this case, we have to judge whether the petty authoritarianism of those that spread illness and death vs the government pushing everyone to help stop that with, at this point, a fairly convincingly safe vaccine.
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The risk from infection is small enough to be considered zero. There is no reason to mask the children.

tehjoker 5y ago

Explain that to the kids that died or the older relatives that got sick from the infected kids.

busymom0 5y ago
> Explain that to the kids that died At least 9 out of 10 children in the ICUs in North Carolina were obese. https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-children-in-covid-icus-are-overweight-but-public-health-officials-rarely-talk-about-obesity https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c... The iron-fisted one-size-fits-all approach has never been used in medicine and health except COVID.
- tehjoker 5y ago
  Nice of you to discard anyone with a health problem.
  - chiefalchemist 5y ago
    Perhaps. But if such conditions increase risk why is the government reluctant to promote that fact? What is gained in the lack of honesty and transparency? Along the same lines, ingoring this differentiator has allowed the gov the take a heavy handed on size fits all approach. If the risk is targeted, why is the loss of rights applied to everyone? Finally, this approach is now being used to jab the kids. That isn't justice. In fact - whether anyone agrees or disagree s - it smells like textbook authoritarianism. In that context, we are all discarded.
    - tehjoker 5y ago
      Huge numbers of people have at least one co-morbidity. The number of perfectly healthy people is probably a minority of the country. The number of co-morbidity rises with declining income and dangerousness of work. So all the bushiness owners and fancy lad writers, managers, programmers, and other white collars are better positioned to withstand the pandemic with virtually every advantage in both isolation and physical health. All those guys that eat shit because they don't have money or time and burn themselves out physically working hard get to die. In a slightly different category of person, it's morbidly fascinating watching unvaccinated people on twitter note their buddy just died and say they had comorbidities with a profile pic that shows them to be obese. In this case, we have to judge whether the petty authoritarianism of those that spread illness and death vs the government pushing everyone to help stop that with, at this point, a fairly convincingly safe vaccine.

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