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Around half a million cases of child abuse are reported in USA [0]. It hard/impossible to find data post 2019 (if you have it, please share), but there are esti
by walkhour 5y ago
Around half a million cases of child abuse are reported in USA [0]. It hard/impossible to find data post 2019 (if you have it, please share), but there are estimates that the number of reported cases lowered by between 20 to 40%, mainly due to kids not going to school and teachers not being able to report it [1][2]. Less than a 1000 kids ages of 5-18 have died of Covid [3].
Tentatively tens/hundreds of thousands of kids are being silently abused in their homes, and they have been prevented to go to school, where teachers can find out. I can't find a way to justify the policy of keeping children at home, which is effectively a transfer of health from kids to adults after we have vaccines, it's simply immoral.
[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/639375/number-of-child-abuse-cases-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/639375/number-of-child-a...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/has-child-abuse-surged-under-covid-19-despite-alarming-stories-n1234713 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/has-child-abuse-s...
[2] https://www.edweek.org/leadership/child-abuse-cases-got-more-severe-during-covid-19-could-teachers-have-prevented-it/2021/06 https://www.edweek.org/leadership/child-abuse-cases-got-more...
[3] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3 https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...