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I mean, another version of the headline is "Children responsible for 791k US Covid deaths."

• eggy 3y ago
  When in reality, being over 65, obese, diabetic, and suffering from hypertension, or otherwise unhealthy, were the major demographic of deaths. Kids were fine. Ah, remember the headlines when Trump was taking it more seriously than the press, and the press was comparing it to the flu and Pelosi in Chinatown SF saying don't be racist, come on down. It was much worse than the flu if you were over 65; it was predominantly a pandemic of the elderly and ill, but gotta sell the poke and boosters to the tune of $40B per round. I had to argue the efficacy of natural immunity from having had it to keep from getting vaccinated for work, and yet they forced my older kids and nephew to get booster after booster if they wanted to continue to attend university. My nephew immediately had chest pains within 8 hours of the vaccination, and he was diagnosed with myocarditis, and is still being checked for heart issues. He was a runner and did not have any of the comorbidities to push him to get the vax given he had already had COVID and should not have been advised to get vaccinated. They did a great job of memory holing natural immunity the CDC and Fauci and Co.
• HWR_14 3y ago
  Except there's no guarantee that fatal cases and child-initiated cases are independent. Given that older people are more likely to die and less likely to have children in the home, it's entirely probable that children are responsible for a far smaller number of deaths.