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How do you know? Is this a calculated likelihood given certain established premises? How do you figure that injury to the physiology that performs cognition ha

How do you know? Is this a calculated likelihood given certain established premises? How do you figure that injury to the physiology that performs cognition has a trivial impact compared to not showing up to school for some time? From what basis do we derive that certainty? We haven’t done so, have we? We’d want to be sure, right? And: In what way were lockdowns unnecessary? It isn’t and it never was safe for children to be infected. There is irreversible harm to children from it at an indefensibly high rate. It is obvious in children in my vicinity. I’m fairly sure my own son has lingering digestive issues after his bout. I may never know because society will not look. Nonetheless, lockdowns certainly were a bad fit to the main mode of transmission which is infectious aerosol.

giantg2 4y ago
"How do you figure that injury to the physiology that performs cognition has a trivial impact compared to not showing up to school for some time?" There are plenty of pre-pandemic studies about truancy and poor curricula leading to lower test scores. It's practically a tautology that if you aren't going to school and studying for the tests that you will score poorly on those tests (the measure here). Could there be some trivial (in aggregate) physiological impact at play? Maybe, but that's not the biggest factor based on this established research. "I may never know because society will not look." It's not that society won't look, but rather that minor issues are deprioritzed. If you have a new disease, there are likely to be tens of thousands unanswered questions around it. It will take decades to get to most of the questions. Some may never be answered or explained. It's unlikely anyone cares enough about an individual with digestive issues (or recurring intermittent swelling after vaccination) to do a study looking at it. If it's sufficiently rare, they may not be able to even identify it as an issue worth looking into.

giantg2 4y ago

"How do you figure that injury to the physiology that performs cognition has a trivial impact compared to not showing up to school for some time?" There are plenty of pre-pandemic studies about truancy and poor curricula leading to lower test scores. It's practically a tautology that if you aren't going to school and studying for the tests that you will score poorly on those tests (the measure here). Could there be some trivial (in aggregate) physiological impact at play? Maybe, but that's not the biggest factor based on this established research. "I may never know because society will not look." It's not that society won't look, but rather that minor issues are deprioritzed. If you have a new disease, there are likely to be tens of thousands unanswered questions around it. It will take decades to get to most of the questions. Some may never be answered or explained. It's unlikely anyone cares enough about an individual with digestive issues (or recurring intermittent swelling after vaccination) to do a study looking at it. If it's sufficiently rare, they may not be able to even identify it as an issue worth looking into.