14 year old girl died of COVID

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are mistaken. Because of what happened to her when she was 11, this child’s death would have been reported regardless. Frankly the fact that you can see it only as part of a scare strategy around COVID doesn’t speak well of your capacity for empathy.

[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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

DP

No, that's not why. People don't think kids are dying off at high rates, people think the kids will transmit Covid to people who are at higher risk. Kids don't exist on islands of only other children.

(I don't have a dog in this fight, just answering your question).

[Anonymous]

For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Do people really think kids live in communes of children and are never near adults?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Ummm... if there was no follow up story, then please explain how anyone knows this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are exactly right. But this young girl was one of the few who did pass from Covid, and she deserved to be remembered ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

Everyone should be worried about saving themselves and other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The death rate for people under the age of 20 is 0.003%. The only group with a death rate above 1% are people aged 70+.

Is this why so many people are against opening schools? Do people really think kids have anything close to a 1% chance of dying from COVID?

Closing schools has nothing to do with protecting kids, it’s anxiety-paralyzed adults worrying about saving themselves.

Everyone should be worried about saving themselves and other.

Not pp but this seems a bit extreme wouldn’t that mean we all just stop driving because it is so risky to each other? There has to be some cost benefit analysis. I worry that large groups of kids are far more likely to be worse harmed by school closure than by covid. It doesn’t seem to be a very rational decision right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Ummm... if there was no follow up story, then please explain how anyone knows this.

There was some follow up after the news broke on Twitter (in fairness, I think it was by a COVID skeptic who spent his time chasing down/verifying the cause of death for everyone the MSM reported died of COVID in order to further his agenda), but nothing in the NYT (or People or anything really MSM) correcting the original story. I am not a COVID skeptic at all, but I do think the media does everyone a disservice when it doesn't prominently correct stories like this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are exactly right. But this young girl was one of the few who did pass from Covid, and she deserved to be remembered ❤️

Yeah, it sucks, I agree. But it’s not really a cause of fear for other children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the hysteria crowd. There were 190 pediatric deaths from the flu last year and 360 from H1N1.

That’s with zero societal changes.

People aren’t that concerned about children dying. Children live with adults. Adults can die and most adults Have contact with elderly folks (which we will all be someday if we’re lucky). It’s not hysteria to not want an entire generation of people to die. What’s hysteria is late stage capitalism’s destruction of our society such that you can’t give up your orange theory workout so that multiple generations of kids can go to school.

An entire generation isn't going to die- even if they get COVID. Less than or around 1% of them will if effected but that is still an incredibly low number. Stop with the hysteria.