14 year old girl died of COVID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. This happened in Michigan.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/11/girl-at-center-of-grand-rapids-police-controversy-dies-of-coronavirus-family-says.html

I remember reading of the story when she was 11.

She didn’t go home to be with Jesus. She died.

Don't you dare challenge the way in which this poor man chose to announce his grandchild's death.

You are a horrible human being.

I am not a horrible human being and I will challenge anything I want.

So stupid, saying someone who has died “went home to be with Jesus.”

Just said she died.

[Anonymous]

That’s very sad but it really does matter if she had underlying health issues.

[Anonymous]

[e-mail] wrote:First, we aren’t shutting down anything. That inane talking point needs to stop. We are having to force certain restrictions due to people’s unwillingness to make small changes that could have avoided them. It’s sad when anyone dies. Every life is newsworthy. Yes, this death is a bit sensationalized, but still sad.

Really? Okay, let me run upstairs to tell my kids, who have been doing "school" from their bedrooms all year.

[Anonymous]

75 million people under age 18 in the US. If they all get Covid, with even a 1% death rate, that's 750,000 people.

What you are really saying is you aren't worried because your family won't be one of the affected ones. So you assume.

[Anonymous]

Another kid of color dies. I bet you white kid would not have been sent home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:75 million people under age 18 in the US. If they all get Covid, with even a 1% death rate, that's 750,000 people.

What you are really saying is you aren't worried because your family won't be one of the affected ones. So you assume.

Well good thing the death rate is an infinitesimal fraction of 1% for children under 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sad but incomplete details raises unfounded fear

Exactly. There is scam written all over that article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More kids are going to continue to die with numbers going up. Truly sad.

Not many.

Kids are now dying. You cannot say not many when one is too many.

LOL. Abortion anyone?

[Anonymous]

[e-mail] wrote:First, we aren’t shutting down anything. That inane talking point needs to stop. We are having to force certain restrictions due to people’s unwillingness to make small changes that could have avoided them. It’s sad when anyone dies. Every life is newsworthy. Yes, this death is a bit sensationalized, but still sad.

Think about what you are saying. “If people don’t obey, the government must MAKE them obey”. But you don’t apply that to breaking the law. In that case, DEFUND!!

[Anonymous]

what a terrible loss for her family.

but articles like these made to stir up fear with a clear lack of detail are so harmful to society. i recall a similar fear article posted here of a young healthy hockey coach killed by covid. an ounce of investigative reporting determined he died of a fentanyl overdose and tested covid positive post mortem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is very sad. There is a reason this has made the news and that is because Covid deaths of children are exceedingly rare. You don’t see a news story when a child dies of cancer.

No, the reason this has made the news is because this child’s short life entailed multiple tragic and drastic experiences that are disproportionately inflicted on Black people in this country.

They were both “so unusual, thus noteworthy,” but they happened to one 14 year old person and there is now no way for this society to redeem the harm done to her by know-nothings who insist that when things are rare, they aren’t worthy of focused attention.

Happy Thanksgiving.

You clearly misunderstand the post. It was a statement in response to posters’ fearmongering over the dangers of Covid to children. There are thousands (if not more) tragic stories about children every year that we never hear about. If this child hadn’t died of Covid, DCUM wouldn’t even know about her death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what a terrible loss for her family.

but articles like these made to stir up fear with a clear lack of detail are so harmful to society. i recall a similar fear article posted here of a young healthy hockey coach killed by covid. an ounce of investigative reporting determined he died of a fentanyl overdose and tested covid positive post mortem.

Aha! Thank you for mentioning this case. There was a thread about this hockey coach here and some of us said uh yeah we hope the family demands an autopsy because the “took one sleeping pill to help him sleep” story was fishy. Then I read about the fentanyl overdose and waited for People magazine to run a follow up. Gosh shockingly it never happened.

[Anonymous]

The article was not meant to do anything other than to highlight the life and death of a local girl who had some local notoriety. The fact that so many of you can't separate empathy from immediate need to distance is not great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article was not meant to do anything other than to highlight the life and death of a local girl who had some local notoriety. The fact that so many of you can't separate empathy from immediate need to distance is not great.

+1

The push to close things down is not due to a single case of one child. It's the accumulation of 260,000 such stories. Every one of those 260,000 was a loved human being. Every story is sad, and the cumulative loss is tragic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sad but incomplete details raises unfounded fear

A 14-year-old died. This is a parenting site. There should be sadness, and fear.

The risk to people under the age of 20 is essentially zero. They’re more likely to die in a car accident.

I don’t have any fear of Covid when it comes to my kids. Let’s have a little perspective here.