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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://twitter.com/denise_dewald/status/1426318478861013001?s=19

I'm not really comforted by "the kids will probably be ok" arguments.  Why is that being accepted??

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Because as long as you are alive you make risk assessments.

The same way we let our kids get on the school bus even though a few die in bus accidents every year.

The same way we get in our cars and drive to work or to grandma's house for Thanksgiving or to Target even though 38,000 people die in car accidents in the U.S. Millions more are hospitalized from those accidents.

I don't think my neighbor has left her house except to walk or take a quick drive around the neighborhood for some fresh air and a change of scenery since March 2020.  She has judged the risk to herself and her household tp be high enough that not going anywhere makes sense.  [/quote]

I don't want to go down the side path, but I think we take unreasonable risks with some of the trucks on our roads and wish we'd value human life more.

For risk, I'm not just looking at deaths, which seems to be the only measure some people are looking at.  I just don't think we know the long term effects of this disease and there are indications that it may not be so simple/short.  My kids have long lives in front of them so any long term impact is a really big deal to me.[/quote]

And people are disabled in car accidents and other accidents (falls, factory mishaps etc.)  People lose hands, legs, eyes.  They are confined to wheelchairs for the rest of their days.

Hell, kids risk death/permanent injury from participating in sports, and we parents sign those "I know my kid could die/become paralyzed" forms every year and order cleats anyway.

Cheerleading is particularly dangerous

[i]Cheerleaders incur two-thirds of all catastrophic injuries to female athletes in high school and college. As cheerleading’s popularity soared over the last 20 years, so have the number of cheerleaders in the hospital. According to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance Survey, emergency room visits increased 110 percent from 1990 to 2002. In 2007 alone, almost 27,000 cheerleaders ended up in the ER, one in six for head or neck injuries.[/i]  http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201112/beyond-beauty-cheerleading-terrifying-danger

Football is also very dangerous.  Some parents have decided their children will never play due to the risk, and I recall one player retiring because he was some kind of STEM major and decided his brain was too important.

The risk is your own to assess for you and your children.  I wouldn't want a child of mine doing cheerleading or football, but lacrosse and basketball are fine.[/quote]

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