It is serious when people are getting it over and over again every few months and it can rapidly be spread in schools. Keep denying. I feel for your kids. |
DP. “Serious” is relative. Yes, covid is highly contagious, but health outcomes aren’t particularly different from other endemic viruses in non-elderly, vaccinated individuals. Similarly, covid doesn’t significantly change individuals’ overall risk profiles. |
My relative who died was 50’s. |
More people have died in the last three years of Covid than colds or flu. |
That’s an anecdote, not data. When looking at vaccinated/boosted individuals and adjusting for age, weekly covid mortality is on par with the flu during the winter. That's not to say some young, healthy people won't die, but that's the case with any disease. It's a big country-- outliers happen. |
And? We didn’t have a vaccine for much of that. And even after the vaccine was available, many of the people dying didn’t get it. And those that did and still died were overwhelmingly elderly, with complicating medical conditions that would put them at higher risk of a variety of health conditions. Covid makes up a small fraction of overall deaths. |
The great Covid denier. |
And, what if it is your child who dies? It will be ok with you? |
Covid is a top 5 cause of death. |
Here we go again! Do you let your child ride in a car or swim in a pool? Part of life is managing risk. Both are more deadly for kids than Covid. |
Screening testing is nothing but a giant money-maker for greedy companies at this point. It’s gross how much they bill for testing and how much they’ve profited. It’s totally unnecessary for mcps to pay for this. Symptomatic testing only. And only if child displays a symptom that you would have tested over in 2019. Testing over sniffles is silly. Testing when child has a high fever and very sore throat, or vomiting makes sense. You want to rule out covid before testing for strep or flu so you get appropriate treatment. |
That data is old. Pre-vaccines. It also includes people who died *with covid* not *of covid*. Somebody investigated the pediatric “covid deaths” in California last year. A few were teens who overdosed but tested positive for covid during routine screening, for example. Talk to anyone who works in hospitals and they’ll tell you that covid death data is nuanced. |
As someone who just turned 50, that's not very young. It's not unusual for people to start dying in this decade. |
You miss the point that kids don’t live alone and there are safety precautions for both of those. |
So, clearly you have something to hide. |