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Not surprising in the least. - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity - Kids have higher-degree more-connected physical proxi

by csense 3y ago

Not surprising in the least. - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity - Kids have higher-degree more-connected physical proximity graphs than adults, they're usually in classes with a group of 20-30-ish other kids. Multiply that by a factor of 5 or more if they switch classes over 6-10 periods. Then they get on a school bus with yet another group of kids. - Kids (especially young ones) don't always keep the same social boundaries as adults, more likely to sneeze / cough on each other, share food / plates, etc.

georgeplusplus 3y ago
You know how many times I've heard "not surprised at the least" during this whole covid fiasco? Especially, from the people who slurped down whatever "science" reporting the media pushed and was taken as the gospel after just months of studying a complex virus. it's baffling how cocksure you are. We don't know and if anyone claims they do with a good accuracy theyre full of it. You should be surprised, it was and still is a novel virus. We didnt know and still don't know the long term effects since we don't have enough data to make a long term analysis. Get your head out your ass this kind of thinking led to bad government decisions by afraid citizens that enabled their governments to make poor decisions
jraph 3y ago
> - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity Did adults do better than children against SARS-Cov-2 immunity-wise? I would agree in general but I was under the impression that SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus nobody / few people were immune to. Or did some people have for some reason an immune system prepared against SARS-Cov-2? How? Were there viruses similar enough before?
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  IIRC exposure to the common cold helped with COVID immunity. Something like 15% of colds are caused by various forms of Coronavirus (forms of Rhinovirus cause the majority) so this makes some level of sense.
  - lamontcg 3y ago
    at least one study found that COVID outcomes weren't any different in people who had donated blood who had HCoV antibodies vs. those without.
- Izkata 3y ago
  Kids have much better innate immune systems than adults, so when no one has immunity through the adaptive immune system (what antibodies are a part of), kids do better than adults.
fknorangesite 3y ago
I am primarily impressed with this comment in that you did a very good job of re-phrasing "children are disgusting snot machines." ...and I'm someone who likes kids.
gnicholas 3y ago
Perhaps, but somehow our kids (toddler and primary school) haven't gotten COVID at school or anywhere else. They eat unmasked with other kids every weekday, and the toddler brings home all sorts of other illnesses. We tested whenever someone got sick in our family, but the kids still haven't gotten it. I realize tests can have false negatives, but I would have expected that we parents would have also gotten sick, and that our symptoms would be notable enough for us to know if we'd had COVID. On the "anecdote" versus "data" spectrum, this is somewhere in the middle; on the one hand, it's just one family, but on the other hand, this has held up for multiple years.

by csense 3y ago

georgeplusplus 3y ago

You know how many times I've heard "not surprised at the least" during this whole covid fiasco? Especially, from the people who slurped down whatever "science" reporting the media pushed and was taken as the gospel after just months of studying a complex virus. it's baffling how cocksure you are. We don't know and if anyone claims they do with a good accuracy theyre full of it. You should be surprised, it was and still is a novel virus. We didnt know and still don't know the long term effects since we don't have enough data to make a long term analysis. Get your head out your ass this kind of thinking led to bad government decisions by afraid citizens that enabled their governments to make poor decisions

jraph 3y ago

> - Kids are younger than average so they have less exposure-based immunity Did adults do better than children against SARS-Cov-2 immunity-wise? I would agree in general but I was under the impression that SARS-CoV-2 was a new virus nobody / few people were immune to. Or did some people have for some reason an immune system prepared against SARS-Cov-2? How? Were there viruses similar enough before?

HideousKojima 3y ago
IIRC exposure to the common cold helped with COVID immunity. Something like 15% of colds are caused by various forms of Coronavirus (forms of Rhinovirus cause the majority) so this makes some level of sense.
- lamontcg 3y ago
  at least one study found that COVID outcomes weren't any different in people who had donated blood who had HCoV antibodies vs. those without.
Izkata 3y ago
Kids have much better innate immune systems than adults, so when no one has immunity through the adaptive immune system (what antibodies are a part of), kids do better than adults.

fknorangesite 3y ago

I am primarily impressed with this comment in that you did a very good job of re-phrasing "children are disgusting snot machines." ...and I'm someone who likes kids.

gnicholas 3y ago

Perhaps, but somehow our kids (toddler and primary school) haven't gotten COVID at school or anywhere else. They eat unmasked with other kids every weekday, and the toddler brings home all sorts of other illnesses. We tested whenever someone got sick in our family, but the kids still haven't gotten it. I realize tests can have false negatives, but I would have expected that we parents would have also gotten sick, and that our symptoms would be notable enough for us to know if we'd had COVID. On the "anecdote" versus "data" spectrum, this is somewhere in the middle; on the one hand, it's just one family, but on the other hand, this has held up for multiple years.