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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate when folks say kids don't die of covid. They do. Yeah, not many but it doesn't take very many kids dying for folks to take action.

Nearly 700 kids have died of covid during the pandemic. It has consistently been listed under the top 10 cause of death for kids. Kids aren't supposed to die so when a small number of kids die from something it is significant. 400-500 kids died of measles a year before we had a vaccine. A handful of kids died from the FP Rock n. Play before it was recalled. 608 kids 12 and under died from car accidents in 2019, kids over all the average is around 1500. 1800 kids die of cancer a year. Under 1K kids die from drowning.

Those are all relatively small numbers when we consider the number of children in the US but they are all significant because kids are not supposed to die.But no one says car accidents don't kill kids or cancer doesn't kill kids. No one says that a parent shouldn't be worried that their kid will get cancer, or they shouldn't wear a seat belt or they shouldn't teach their kid to swim. When again, the kids of all of this is very low.

Yes, your kid has a small risk of having serious complications from covid and a smaller risk of death. But we take so many precautions for so many other things that our children also have a very small risk of death or injury from. I am not sure why folks are so angry about the risks from covid.

(Again yes, I am saying the risk is low. I am just saying it shouldn't be insane that people want to take precautions)

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What you are missing is that if you recall the Rock n' Play you know there will be no further deaths from it.  We simply do not believe masks provide the same outcome.  Also, in this country many parents opt out of the measels shot as seeing the potential of harm from the vaccine outweighs the remote chance of catching measles (I am not saying they are correct or that this creates a free rider problem, I'm just pointing out that we do not always force precautions (especially overly protective ones) where the cost-benefit analysis does not justify it).[/quote]

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