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Not having dead parents is a great benefit for kids. Not having dead parents who you infected and caused to die is an even better benefit

by mavhc 4y ago

nradov 4y ago
Stop spreading misinformation. The data clearly shows that the death rate for parents is extremely low. It was only ever people in the 65+ age group that were at significant risk. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
oneoff786 4y ago
Parents were mostly fine from it in the end. Look by all means lockdowns made a lot of sense early on in the face of an unknown disease. I hope we can all agree they no longer make sense for Covid.
- micromacrofoot 4y ago
  In the US 200,000+ children lost caregivers to covid. So technically most were fine, but that's also not a number to scoff at. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost-parent-caregiver-covid-efforts-help-haphazard-rcna16140 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost...
  - oneoff786 4y ago
    That seems… impossible? There’s been about 70k deaths in the range of 20-49. What’s a child? What’s a caregiver? I’d also point out it’s not “technically most” it’s 99.7%
    - micromacrofoot 4y ago
      It's from this study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Children are people under 18. > We considered parents and custodial grandparents as primary caregivers, and co-residing grandparents or older kin (aged 60–84 years) as secondary caregivers. Lot of kids are raised by their grandparents.
HideousKojima 4y ago
Unless their parents were obese retirees, the chances of that happening were a few orders of magnitude lower than the chances for plenty of other risks we deem acceptable and don't lock down society over.

Not having dead parents is a great benefit for kids. Not having dead parents who you infected and caused to die is an even better benefit

by mavhc 4y ago

Not having dead parents is a great benefit for kids. Not having dead parents who you infected and caused to die is an even better benefit

nradov 4y ago

Stop spreading misinformation. The data clearly shows that the death rate for parents is extremely low. It was only ever people in the 65+ age group that were at significant risk. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

oneoff786 4y ago

Parents were mostly fine from it in the end. Look by all means lockdowns made a lot of sense early on in the face of an unknown disease. I hope we can all agree they no longer make sense for Covid.

micromacrofoot 4y ago
In the US 200,000+ children lost caregivers to covid. So technically most were fine, but that's also not a number to scoff at. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost-parent-caregiver-covid-efforts-help-haphazard-rcna16140 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost...
- oneoff786 4y ago
  That seems… impossible? There’s been about 70k deaths in the range of 20-49. What’s a child? What’s a caregiver? I’d also point out it’s not “technically most” it’s 99.7%
  - micromacrofoot 4y ago
    It's from this study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Children are people under 18. > We considered parents and custodial grandparents as primary caregivers, and co-residing grandparents or older kin (aged 60–84 years) as secondary caregivers. Lot of kids are raised by their grandparents.

HideousKojima 4y ago

Unless their parents were obese retirees, the chances of that happening were a few orders of magnitude lower than the chances for plenty of other risks we deem acceptable and don't lock down society over.