14 year old girl died of COVID

[Anonymous]

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.

Uhm not sure how to say this but uh, who TF exactly are you to tell anyone how to feel? Fack off with that communist entitlement.

[Anonymous]

A bunch of racist assholes in the Health and Medicine forum, I see. Would you be this rude if it was a rich white child who died? Are you the same people who were posting tons and tons of sympathetic notes about the two healthy teenagers who were on ventilators and ECMO in Alexandria this spring? It could just as easily have been them who died and you all know you would be talking about how devastating this is. But no, a black girl died and you just say "who cares?" or assume she had a preexisting condition. You are terrible people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of racist assholes in the Health and Medicine forum, I see. Would you be this rude if it was a rich white child who died? Are you the same people who were posting tons and tons of sympathetic notes about the two healthy teenagers who were on ventilators and ECMO in Alexandria this spring? It could just as easily have been them who died and you all know you would be talking about how devastating this is. But no, a black girl died and you just say "who cares?" or assume she had a preexisting condition. You are terrible people.

Don't worry, they don't discriminate against race of kids but its not their kids so they don't care. They think it cannot happen in their family but it can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of racist assholes in the Health and Medicine forum, I see. Would you be this rude if it was a rich white child who died? Are you the same people who were posting tons and tons of sympathetic notes about the two healthy teenagers who were on ventilators and ECMO in Alexandria this spring? It could just as easily have been them who died and you all know you would be talking about how devastating this is. But no, a black girl died and you just say "who cares?" or assume she had a preexisting condition. You are terrible people.

Yes, I would pose the same questions regardless of race. Sad, yes. But, not representative of how COVID is affecting 99.99% of youth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A bunch of racist assholes in the Health and Medicine forum, I see. Would you be this rude if it was a rich white child who died? Are you the same people who were posting tons and tons of sympathetic notes about the two healthy teenagers who were on ventilators and ECMO in Alexandria this spring? It could just as easily have been them who died and you all know you would be talking about how devastating this is. But no, a black girl died and you just say "who cares?" or assume she had a preexisting condition. You are terrible people.

Yes, I would pose the same questions regardless of race. Sad, yes. But, not representative of how COVID is affecting 99.99% of youth.

Numbers in kids has been going up the last few weeks. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

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

Except that lots of people don’t know they have an underlying condition until they die of covid. So knowing whether this girl had something that made her vulnerable really won’t give you assurances about your own kids. It would just give you something to cling to to reinforce your preconceived notion that your family is immune.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sadly that’s the truth. Covid is a rare killer of children. Cancer is not.😔

I am sorry for this families loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s sad, but is it newsworthy?

Not at all.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sadly that’s the truth. Covid is a rare killer of children. Cancer is not.😔

I am sorry for this families loss.

That's a good point. It made the news cycle because of how unusual it was.

[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.

Sadly that’s the truth. Covid is a rare killer of children. Cancer is not.😔

I am sorry for this families loss.

That's a good point. It made the news cycle because of how unusual it was.

It made the news cycle because THE CHILD HAD ALREADY BEEN IN THE NEWS FOR SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENING TO HER.

Childhood cancer deaths are actually quite rare. Kids are more likely to be killed in accidents at every age 1-18.

[Anonymous]

Yet another denialist and appalling lack of caring thread by some apps on dcum.
What do we have so far?
Not the whole story,
she must've had something else wrong
Kids don't die from corona
Most 70-year-olds don't die from corona
50-year-olds don't die from corona
You likely had it and didn't know you had it
It is that mild
20-year-olds don't even feel it
kids should go to school bcs there is no evidence they will kill grandma with it
look at fact above, nobody 70 and up really dies from it, so 20-year-olds and kids should do everything normally bcs they will not kill anyone with it
We would not even know this kid died from corona if she was not in the new before! So, this death doesn't count as we normally would not know about it
IF WE DON"T KNOW IT, IT IS NOT REAL.

[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.

Uhm not sure how to say this but uh, who TF exactly are you to tell anyone how to feel? Fack off with that communist entitlement.

Gee, I wonder what it is about this particular child that you feel no compassion or sorrow. It is such a mystery!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet another denialist and appalling lack of caring thread by some apps on dcum.
What do we have so far?
Not the whole story,
she must've had something else wrong
Kids don't die from corona
Most 70-year-olds don't die from corona
50-year-olds don't die from corona
You likely had it and didn't know you had it
It is that mild
20-year-olds don't even feel it
kids should go to school bcs there is no evidence they will kill grandma with it
look at fact above, nobody 70 and up really dies from it, so 20-year-olds and kids should do everything normally bcs they will not kill anyone with it
We would not even know this kid died from corona if she was not in the new before! So, this death doesn't count as we normally would not know about it
IF WE DON"T KNOW IT, IT IS NOT REAL.

Ehhh, so what conclusion are you drawing from the news story?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Of course we're not going to stop driving, but society has put a ton of restrictions on driving to make it safer. Seatbelts, speed limits, car seats, safety measures built into cars, a million driving rules, no texting, etc etc. Similarly, we should take measures to keep more people from dying of covid. E.g., school is still happening, but it is remote in some areas. Personally, I'd close restaurants, bars, gyms, etc and see if it is possible to open schools, but there are also other ways to do it. And H1N1 had more child deaths, but schools never closed for that, so it isn't an apt comparison.

[Anonymous]

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.

Sadly that’s the truth. Covid is a rare killer of children. Cancer is not.😔

I am sorry for this families loss.

FWIW, cancer is also a rare killer of children, statistically speaking. Just look at the numbers.