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Kids can get COVID but it’s no worse than a mild cold for them. This has been known for a very long time and is not controversial.

EdSharkey 5y ago
Is this comment unassailable? Does it completely invalidate grandparent? How dangerous is it culturally if the grandparent's assumptions and opinions are completely invalid?? I'm being serious, this is a culture-wide powder keg ready to explode!
spacedcowboy 5y ago
There is a literal link to kids dying of covid in my post you responded to. Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.
- Method-X 5y ago
  > Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). [Novel mRNA vaccines] are highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). > And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her. COVID is as dangerous as a cold for children. That is a fact. Children die of the cold and flu every year. That also sucks for the parents of those children as well. What's the point you're trying to make? Are you advocating for a zero risk society?
  - spacedcowboy 5y ago
    [Novel mRNA vaccines] have been tested on literally hundreds of millions of adults with a tiny number of cases where the vaccine has been dangerous. The vaccines are medicine. Covid has killed millions of people, and even when it doesn't kill, it can engender a long-term disability which massively reduces quality of life. Covid is a pathogen. Are you seriously trying to equate these two ? Really ?
    - Method-X 5y ago
      Yeah, and COVID has been "tested" on hundreds of millions of kids. Are they experiencing "long-term disability which massively reduces quality of life"? I think a wild claim like that needs a really good source! To that you'll probably just say "oh well we don't know yet, maybe in 10 years", which is the exact same line of reasoning I hear people say about the mRNA vaccines. Personally I'm twice vaccinated with Pfizer. I think mRNA vaccines are a great innovation, but I'm 35 so their risk (and benefit) to me is negligible. I'd be much more cautious if I were responsible for giving it to children though.
- icare_1er 5y ago
  Kids die more skying than from COVID. COVID is pretty juch the illness that kids die the less from.... There is no reason (apart from profit) for vaccinating them.

EdSharkey 5y ago

Is this comment unassailable? Does it completely invalidate grandparent? How dangerous is it culturally if the grandparent's assumptions and opinions are completely invalid?? I'm being serious, this is a culture-wide powder keg ready to explode!

spacedcowboy 5y ago

There is a literal link to kids dying of covid in my post you responded to. Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her.

Method-X 5y ago
> Covid is highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). [Novel mRNA vaccines] are highly unlikely to be dangerous to kids, as far as we know. This much I can agree with, but we don't know if there are any long-term effects, and we won't until sufficient time has passed for that to be discovered. What if it makes kids under the age of 10 sterile ? (No, I don't think it does either, but it's an example of something you can't tell for a while). > And, however unlikely, with a sufficiently large population of kids being infected, there are some who will pay the ultimate price, it is a potentially lethal disease after all - and that utterly sucks if you're one of those kids' parents; I wonder how they feel, when people say "it's no worse than a mild cold for them", looking at their dead child one last time before burying him/her. COVID is as dangerous as a cold for children. That is a fact. Children die of the cold and flu every year. That also sucks for the parents of those children as well. What's the point you're trying to make? Are you advocating for a zero risk society?
- spacedcowboy 5y ago
  [Novel mRNA vaccines] have been tested on literally hundreds of millions of adults with a tiny number of cases where the vaccine has been dangerous. The vaccines are medicine. Covid has killed millions of people, and even when it doesn't kill, it can engender a long-term disability which massively reduces quality of life. Covid is a pathogen. Are you seriously trying to equate these two ? Really ?
  - Method-X 5y ago
    Yeah, and COVID has been "tested" on hundreds of millions of kids. Are they experiencing "long-term disability which massively reduces quality of life"? I think a wild claim like that needs a really good source! To that you'll probably just say "oh well we don't know yet, maybe in 10 years", which is the exact same line of reasoning I hear people say about the mRNA vaccines. Personally I'm twice vaccinated with Pfizer. I think mRNA vaccines are a great innovation, but I'm 35 so their risk (and benefit) to me is negligible. I'd be much more cautious if I were responsible for giving it to children though.
icare_1er 5y ago
Kids die more skying than from COVID. COVID is pretty juch the illness that kids die the less from.... There is no reason (apart from profit) for vaccinating them.