Anyone else getting increasingly concerned for their kids?

[Anonymous]

I keep reading about kids getting COVID. I had sort of bought into the story line that kids dont seem to get COVID but I should have known better after they told us in early March that masks did nothing. The latest are nearly a hundred babies in one county is so scary.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/18/health/texas-infants-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

[Anonymous]

No one ever, at any point, said kids don’t get Covid, only that they tend to get milder cases and very, very rarely die.

[Anonymous]

I’m not worried at all. We chose hybrid and feel great about it.

[Anonymous]

Nope. Not concerned here in Maryland where we actually take precautions.

[Anonymous]

The idea that kids don’t get COVID-19, aren’t carriers, and are unaffected was the stupidest rumor ever.

The only reason they’ve been mostly unaffected until now is because they are shielded. Pulled out of daycare, out of school, out of camps, and for the most part - locked up at home with their parents.

Now people are going to realize how wrong they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one ever, at any point, said kids don’t get Covid, only that they tend to get milder cases and very, very rarely die.

They can and do die https://www.kbtx.com/2020/07/10/covid-19-claims-life-of-texas-infant/

[Anonymous]

Yes. It was disturbing to read about even asymptomatic kids showing signs of lung damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not concerned here in Maryland where we actually take precautions.

I am in a area which has literally been shut down since March and cases are spiking

[Anonymous]

Considering how much my Ped pushed the HPV vaccine, which is a virus which increases risk for cancer decades down the line, it doesn’t make sense for them to be sanguine about COVID about which we know nothing other than it affects much of the body in severe ways, let alone what happens in a decade.

[Anonymous]

Lots of people on social media said "kids don't get Covid-19".

When you use that shorthand to mean "statistically, children are the least affected group and are least likely to have complications and die", people start to believe that, in fact, children never get Covid-19.

Now there's the "children don't transmit Covid-19" on social media. Please fight that one, because like the other, it too is a lie.

Vaccination is the only solution. Please start a grassroots movement to convince everyone to get vaccinated. Vaccines will be distributed in 2021.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not concerned here in Maryland where we actually take precautions.

Outside is not magic. Masks are not magic. You just haven’t run into an infected person often enough yet.

Let me introduce you to exponents.

We have to get R0 under one, and then maybe we can relax a little, outside, with masks.

https://rt.live/us/MD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Not concerned here in Maryland where we actually take precautions.

I am in a area which has literally been shut down since March and cases are spiking

Is this the same Maryland where parents are complaining up-and-down about a DL-only start? Maybe you should be grateful your school systems are being proactive.

[Anonymous]

Yes! It’s extremely worrying. The complications from covid in children is scarier than previously thought. We have to change our thinking on this. Even if it’s 1 in 100 who have serious complications, would you offer your child a bowl of 100 raisins where one of them was poisoned?

[Anonymous]

I completely agree with the covid shutdowns, in order to save the vulnerable, especially the elderly. But it's an observed fact that covid is less risky for children than normal flu. Here's a link to a May 5 analysis.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-07/comparing-coronavirus-deaths-by-age-with-flu-driving-fatalities

Quote: "For children, the risk of dying from Covid-19 appears to be much less than that of dying from influenza and pneumonia even in the most pessimistic of my three scenarios. From age 15 onward the Covid risk is higher, with the relative difference peaking for those in the 45 through 54 age group, whose risk of dying from Covid-19 in my middle scenario is four and a half times higher than their influenza and pneumonia mortality rate in 2018."

Covid is serious, but less so for children. If you have credible data about long term complications, please post it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I completely agree with the covid shutdowns, in order to save the vulnerable, especially the elderly. But it's an observed fact that covid is less risky for children than normal flu. Here's a link to a May 5 analysis.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-07/comparing-coronavirus-deaths-by-age-with-flu-driving-fatalities

Quote: "For children, the risk of dying from Covid-19 appears to be much less than that of dying from influenza and pneumonia even in the most pessimistic of my three scenarios. From age 15 onward the Covid risk is higher, with the relative difference peaking for those in the 45 through 54 age group, whose risk of dying from Covid-19 in my middle scenario is four and a half times higher than their influenza and pneumonia mortality rate in 2018."

Covid is serious, but less so for children. If you have credible data about long term complications, please post it.

And in the 3 months since that article they have figured out that even those without symptoms can get serious lung damage